By Connie Brockway
"**With the excellent storytelling that has develop into her trademark, acclaimed writer Connie Brockway sweeps readers to Victorian England—a glittering global of titled society and scandalous secrets—in the spell binding story of a lady who commits the main startling indiscretion of all: she falls in love.**
Letty Potts, a petty schemer by means of necessity, has made up our minds to head instantly. yet after narrowly escaping the wrath of her associate in crime, she unearths herself at Paddington Station with not anything however the costume she’s donning and one other woman’s educate price tag clutched in her hand. Masquerading because the redoubtable “Lady Agatha” of Whyte marriage ceremony Celebrations, Letty arrives within the distant village of Little Bidewell, the place she is to rearrange the nuptials of a tender society bride.
Amid the dizzying whirl of pre-wedding festivities, no one suspects Letty’s secret—except Sir Elliot March. A struggle hero who has forsworn love, Elliot senses anything decidedly amiss approximately this outspoken younger girl, but she awakens in him a passionate craving he’d inspiration used to be misplaced ceaselessly. quickly, although, a determined deception embroils them either in an internet of scandal and possibility as Letty’s previous catches up together with her, threatening not just her existence yet Elliot’s—and their love.
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Extra resources for The Bridal Season (Bridal Stories, Book 1)
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She shows him Lady Dedlock's letter and he summons Bucket to search for her and offer his full forgiveness. The detective finds Esther's handkerchief in Lady Dedlock's boudoir and calls on Mr Jarndyce late at night to beg for Esther's help in his search. Commentary With the discovery of Lady Dedlock's flight, the narrative gains pace as Dickens suggests the desperate speed of Bucket's search, and in the last paragraph the reference to the brick-kilns hints at the final twist in the unfolding of Lady Dedlock's tragedy.
Chapter 38 Summary When Esther returns to Bleak House, she visits London, where she finds Caddy happily married and learning to give dancing-lessons as Prince's 30 health is not good. Together Esther and Caddy call on Mr Guppy, and Esther begs him not to make any further inquiries about her personal history. Guppy, startled by Esther's changed appearance, and fearing that she wishes to take up his proposal of marriage, is clumsily anxious to hear her formally decline his offer again in front of Caddy.
Mter delaying for two weeks, she tells Mr Jarndyce that she will marry him. 33 Commentary Though the mystery of Esther's birth has now been solved, the reader's interest is maintained by uncertainties about whether Lady Dedlock's secret will be exposed. Jarndyce's proposal raises problems for Esther, too. She loves and respects her guardian, and prudence suggests the marriage would be a good one, but Esther is a young woman with powerful emotions, which she recognises that marriage to Jarndyce would not fulfil.