Charming Artemis by Sarah M. Eden #giveaway #regencyromance #historicalfiction

 

Charming Artemis by Sarah M. Eden
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Source:  I purchased a copy for my kindle.

Genre: Regency Romance

Book Description:  Charlie Jonquil is mild-mannered and kind—except when it comes to his one true adversary, Artemis Lancaster. Though Charlie has a brilliant mind for mathematics, Artemis poses a problem he can’t seem to comprehend: how can one be so lovely and so infuriating? A party in London brings him into the company of the maddening young lady, and it is clear that Charlie’s disdain is mutual. But when an unfortunate incident between the pair involving Charlie’s jacket and a glass of raspberry shrub leads to scandal, the sworn enemies are left with only two options: be ruined or be married.

So it is that Artemis finds herself in a most outrageous predicament: she must wed a gentleman she’s hated for years—and she pledges to avoid him at all costs. But it is only when they enter into this mockery of a marriage that Charlie and Artemis learn things are not as simple as they once appeared. As their tentative ceasefire leads to friendship, it seems their marriage born of desperation might lead them to a love that was destined to be.

My thoughts: It seems like I have been waiting for this book forever. (We'll just say it's been a while.) The problem with anxiously anticipating a book is that when you finally read it, you devour it! I wish that I could have savored it, but I couldn't put it down.

The time has come to have the Lancaster and the Jonquil families be related through marriage. But there wasn't romance in the long-awaited, for me, marriage. It started with an accident with the raspberry shrub. Marriage is the choice over ruination. Somehow Charlie and Artemis have to figure out how to get along or be miserable for the rest of their lives

This novel was everything that I hoped it would be. I literally laughed and cried. I loved revisiting both families and having all of the nieces and nephews in one place. This book was bitter/sweet for me. The ending is so tender.

If you haven't started the Lancaster of Jonquil series, do it! Then read this book.

Online Purchase Links:

Amazon * Barnes & Noble * Deseret Book *Seagull Book

About the Author:

Sarah M. Eden is the author of several well-received historical romances. Her previous Proper Romance novel Longing for Home won the Foreword Reviews 2013 IndieFab Book of the Year award for romance. Hope Springs won the 2014 Whitney Award for "Best Novel of the Year" and The Sheriffs of Savage Wells was a Foreword Reviews 2016 Book of the Year finalist for romance.

Combining her obsession with history and an affinity for tender love stories, Sarah loves crafting witty characters and heartfelt romances. She happily spends hours perusing the reference shelves of her local library and dreams of one day traveling to all the places she reads about. Visit Sarah at www.sarahmeden.com.

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