Forbidden Magic
1995 • 345 pages
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A Christmas Miracle
Left penniless after her parents' death, Meg Gillingham was in dire straits. Her cruel landlord threatened to turn her and her siblings out of their home by the New Year—unless she surrendered her sister to his lecherous whims. Only a miracle could save her: a magic statue that granted wishes—for a price.
Meg never expected the statue to bring her a marriage proposal, especially from the handsome Earl of Saxonhurst, who needed a bride to keep his fortune. Her heart raced wildly, for she was held spellbound by her desire for this man. But a villain was determined to destroy their union with mistrust, and see them dead. Now Meg had to put her faith in a more powerful magic—the magic of love.
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I just couldn't get past the fact that she seduced him in his sleep and had sex with him against his will. All this so that he could make her his mistress. And then protesting when he suspected that the child isn't his? When you are manipulative from the start, saw the man as a provider of $$ can you blame him? Granted there were WTF moments too from the hero who thought she was a whore (his words not mine) just because of her perfume - before the whole sleep seduction thing btw.
So this is a messed up couple that wouldn't work in real life. Just couldn't buy their romance 😂
OMG, this was several orders of magnitude better than my last venture in old romance novels from the Pacific Beach, WA lending library! I learned about pagan sheela na gigs (worth the Wikipedia read), the relationship was pleasantly egalitarian despite the Regency time period, and the protagonist and her beloved had both hot sex and witty repartee. Exactly what you want in a beach read!
