Reviewer: Robyn Roberts
Title: To Wed a Wild Lord - 4th in the Hellions of Halstead Hall series
Author: Sabrina Jeffries
Publisher: Pocket
ISBN-13: 978-1-4516-4240-7
Release Date: December 2011
Genre/Sub-genre: Historical Romance
Year/Setting: England 1825
Overall Rating: 5.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: Mild
Violent Content Rating: None
Sabrina's Website/Blog: www.sabrinajeffries.com
Lord Gabriel Sharpe, Gabe, has been cheating death for years. Especially since a race against his dear friend caused the death of his friend. He’s never been able to put Roger Waverly’s death behind him and after perfecting his Angel of Darkness mystique, he seems to always come out one hairsbreadth ahead of death.
When Virginia Waverly challenges Gabe to a race on the same course that killed her brother, Gabe begins by looking for any way out of it. Then he starts to realize that he might be able to get Virginia to help him meet his grandmother’s ultimatum. She’s told him and his siblings that they must all marry within a year or all of them will lose their inheritance. He believes he can right the wrong of Roger’s death—and secure his sizeable inheritance—by marrying Roger’s daughter. After all, she’s easy on the eye and spirited like the stallions he loves to race.
Too bad Virginia’s grandfather and guardian, General Waverly, refuses to believe anything good about Gabe. The General blames Gabe for Roger’s death and with good reason. Then Virginia catches wind of the ultimatum from his grandmother and refuses to believe he has any real interest in her beyond a means to his money. With all these things going on, it becomes more and more doubtful that he will ever win the lady…or his fortune. Will he ever find a way to race into her heart? Or is he doomed to continue trying to cheat death racing?
Gabe and Virginia’s story was breathtaking in many ways. First of all, the races Gabe ran in the past and continues to run kept me on the edge of my seat. He takes some large calculated risks in order to win and each time, I was afraid it would be the last big risk he would take. Virginia is quite a progressive thinker in the day and age where women are meant to run homes and not really have a brain in their heads. She’s got quite the head for business and she can manage her home at the same time. She’s a quick thinker and finds endless ways to taunt and torment Gabe as he pursues her.
I love it when the two of them spar verbally. You never know whose wit will be the fastest and who will get the verbal jabs in first. It was wildly entertaining to peek in on their private conversations and negotiations.
While this is the fourth book in the series, it reads like a stand-alone. I’m sure that readers returning to the series will enjoy spending a little time with the siblings from past books, but new readers can work into this series seamlessly. Sabrina Jeffries gets your heart racing with her expert and exciting descriptions. She is very talented at making the reader become a part of the action going on as if they are in the room with the characters. A wonderful read and now I can’t wait to get my hands on other books by Sabrina Jeffries.
Robyn
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