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The Improper Wife
Drowning in whiskey, war veteran Captain John Grayson is shocked when a pregnant woman bursts into his room and claims to be his wife in a wrenching story of mistaken identity, misguided honor, and true love. Original.
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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July 25, 2017
Leído en Febrero 2010
LA IMPOSTORA
RESUMEN: Mayo de 1814. El capitán John Grayson «Gray», se despierta repentinamente al oír unos fuertes golpes en la puerta de su habitación. Al abrir encuentra a Margaret Delaney, «Maggie», con un embarazo muy avanzado y contracciones intensas y rápidas. Al cabo de pocos minutos Gray ayuda a Maggie a dar luz. Ella pregunta dónde está su marido, el capitán John Grayson, y queda aturdida cuando el hombre le contesta que él es John Grayson.
Maggie está desolada a medida que entiende que ha sido engañada y que el hombre con el que se había casado había falseado su identidad para aprovecharse de ella. No tiene marido, por lo tanto, tampoco un hogar para su hijo. Maggie y su niño se marchan a casa del sobrino del verdadero Gray para evitar un escándalo social.
Poco a poco las vidas de los dos personajes se transformarán y unirán para demostrar que sólo el destino es capaz de unir a los enamorados.
LA IMPOSTORA
RESUMEN: Mayo de 1814. El capitán John Grayson «Gray», se despierta repentinamente al oír unos fuertes golpes en la puerta de su habitación. Al abrir encuentra a Margaret Delaney, «Maggie», con un embarazo muy avanzado y contracciones intensas y rápidas. Al cabo de pocos minutos Gray ayuda a Maggie a dar luz. Ella pregunta dónde está su marido, el capitán John Grayson, y queda aturdida cuando el hombre le contesta que él es John Grayson.
Maggie está desolada a medida que entiende que ha sido engañada y que el hombre con el que se había casado había falseado su identidad para aprovecharse de ella. No tiene marido, por lo tanto, tampoco un hogar para su hijo. Maggie y su niño se marchan a casa del sobrino del verdadero Gray para evitar un escándalo social.
Poco a poco las vidas de los dos personajes se transformarán y unirán para demostrar que sólo el destino es capaz de unir a los enamorados.
May 25, 2024
I was pleasantly surprised that I liked this. To be honest, I was feeling lazy. While watching tv, I didn't feel like going all the way upstairs to get my current book to bring down & read during the commercials.
My mother had just passed this to me for my "used bookshop trade" pile so it was on the table. I picked it up & figured it would distract during the ads.
The story is very predictable, it still held my interest. Maggie & John had good chemistry. I liked Maggie a lot. Great character, reminiscent of Julia Quinn or Amanda Quick's heroines. Of course it also included 2 cute kids (I'm a sucker for that in a story).
My mother had just passed this to me for my "used bookshop trade" pile so it was on the table. I picked it up & figured it would distract during the ads.
The story is very predictable, it still held my interest. Maggie & John had good chemistry. I liked Maggie a lot. Great character, reminiscent of Julia Quinn or Amanda Quick's heroines. Of course it also included 2 cute kids (I'm a sucker for that in a story).
July 23, 2015
Maggie Delaney seeks the lodgings of her about-to-be born child’s father, but the man who opens his door to her is a stranger. Pleading for his help, she accepts the nobleman’s aid in the birth of her son. But if this is the real Captain John Grayson, who was the man she married? She’d believed the guy to be dead, drowned in the river. Afraid to be accused of murdering him, she remains silent about her past.
When a pregnant woman shows up at his door and announces she’s his wife, Gray is stunned. The lady even has papers to prove their marriage took place. Foisting her off on his relatives along with her newborn son, he forgets about her until he returns home to his father’s country manor. There he finds Maggie, who has entranced his family. He has no choice but to go along with her charade that she’s his wife. As he falls under his charms, he wishes their marriage wasn’t a sham. There is only one thing that stands in his way, and that’s the identity of the man who fooled her. Maggie is oddly reluctant to discuss the fellow. How can he trust her when she refuses to confide in him?
When a pregnant woman shows up at his door and announces she’s his wife, Gray is stunned. The lady even has papers to prove their marriage took place. Foisting her off on his relatives along with her newborn son, he forgets about her until he returns home to his father’s country manor. There he finds Maggie, who has entranced his family. He has no choice but to go along with her charade that she’s his wife. As he falls under his charms, he wishes their marriage wasn’t a sham. There is only one thing that stands in his way, and that’s the identity of the man who fooled her. Maggie is oddly reluctant to discuss the fellow. How can he trust her when she refuses to confide in him?
November 18, 2008
Good book, the characters were interesting and amusing. Some of the plot and events were predicatable but some were not. It was a standard regency romance with a couple of twists and turns that makes it unique to itself.
February 27, 2011
A predictable love story but fun to read.
August 7, 2014
My first book of Diane Perkins. Fun story, a bit rushed at the end but still really good.
The only negative point is the price, really too expensive for a ebook. Too bad.
The only negative point is the price, really too expensive for a ebook. Too bad.
January 27, 2016
historical romance
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