The Obedient Bride

The Obedient Bride

Mary Balogh

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Miss Arabella Wilson knew perfectly well that the handsome, dashing Lord Geoffrey Astor is marrying her only out of a sense of duty. She knew she could only be grateful to this man who so generously offered her a life of aristocratic privilege. Surely she could not imagine ever claiming his heart as well as his hand. Surely she could not object to his mistress, the ravishingly sensual Ginny Cox. Surely she could be content with the attentions of the gentlemen of the ton who swarmed around her. But Arabella had committed the most scandalous of sins. She had fallen in love with her own husband…

Publication Year: 1989


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  • hianray
    Apr 22, 2025
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    It wasn’t the “cheating” that bothered me. It was the repetitious nature of the book. The low opinion the heroine had of herself. And the way the hero saw the heroine as a child, even physically, but also sexually desired her, wasn’t working for me.

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