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Bride of Trouville

by Lyn Stone

Published 2003299 pagesISBN 978-0-2638-3516-8

1429772 Want to Read saving… saving… saving… saving… saving… Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Preview more photos (1) Bride of Trouville (Trouville #2) by Lyn Stone 3.41 · Rating details · 68 Ratings · 5 Reviews SHE WAS ALL HE HAD EVER WANTED When Edouard Gillet, Comte de Trouville, wed the beauteous Lady Anne of Baincroft, he thought he had found his heart's desire. But was the passion he had willingly declared from the battlements shared by his newly pledged bride? Or would the unspoken secret still between them destroy their newfound happiness? Though it would break her heart, Anne prayed that Edouard would leave Scotland behind and return to the Court of France. For the longer he stayed, the greater the risk he would discover that her son was not all he seemed --- and the mighty comte was surely not a man who would accept anything less than perfection.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Reading lengthA standard-length read299 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2003
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-2638-3516-8
Language
English
Edition record
OL28956522M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

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