Stormswept

How dare Rhys Vaughan show up at Juliana St. Albans' wedding to Stephen Wyndham! Rhys is supposed to be dead. Six years ago, Juliana secretly married Rhys without her family's consent. The couple planned on running away to London, but when Juliana awoke in the room at the inn where they spent their wedding night, Rhys was gone. Juliana never gave up hope that Rhys would return to her until she learned that he had perished in a shipwreck. Yet here he is, alive and well with every intention of reclaiming his wife. Best-selling Sabrina Jeffries (The Art of Sinning, 2015) originally wrote Stormswept in 1995 as Deborah Martin, and she has now gone back to that novel and carefully revised it for republication. The end result is a fast-paced historical romance that not only delivers all the boldly sensual passion Jeffries' readers have come to expect but also makes wonderful use of its refreshingly different Welsh setting.--Charles, John Copyright 2016 Booklist

This repackaging of Jeffries's 1995 novel unites an English lady with a daring Welshman in late 18th-century Wales. Lady Juliana St. Albans, sister of the Earl of Northcliffe, is about to hear the announcement of her engagement to Stephen Wyndham, Marquess of Devon, when she comes face to face with Rhys Vaughan-her husband, whom she had believed was dead. Rhys believes that Juliana was responsible for helping her brother get him impressed into the navy on their wedding night six years before, and he is ruthlessly determined to get back at her by forcing her to continue being his wife, under his absolute dominion. She continues protesting her innocence, and though Rhys greatly doubts her, his attraction to her grows. He gradually comes to the realization that she may not have betrayed him after all. The romantic angst simmers as Rhys aches and snarls and Juliana hopes and pleads. The depth of their emotions makes them believable characters, and their fast-paced story is intensely moving. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.