About This Book

Genre: Historical Romance / Regency Romance

Setting: Regency England

Tropes: Second chance romance, enemies to lovers, first love, widow heroine, returning soldier, newspaper advertisement, secrets and betrayal

For readers who love: Emotional second chances, first loves reunited, widowed heroines protecting their families, scarred soldiers returning home, newspaper courtships, bitter secrets, hard-won forgiveness, and love that survives years of separation.

The Bittersweet Bride

Widow Theodosia Cecil needs a husband to help protect her son. The former flower seller turned estate owner posts an ad in the newspaper, and no one is more surprised than she when her first love, the man she thought dead, reappears.

Widow Theodosia Cecil needs a husband to help protect her son. The former flower seller turned estate owner posts an ad in the newspaper, and no one is more surprised than she when her first love, the man she thought dead, reappears. Ewan Fitzwilliam has been at war for six years. Now, the second son of a powerful earl is back, but his beloved Theo needs a husband and will not consider him. She believes Ewan left her - in desperate straits - so she denies the feelings she still harbors for the handsome, scarred soldier. Theo and playwright Ewan must overcome bitter lies and vengeful actions that ruined their youthful affair. Theo must reveal her deepest secret in order to reclaim the love that has long been denied.

"The Bittersweet Bride charms, entertains, delights, and, best of all, satisfies my craving for a great happily ever after." - NYT Bestselling Author, GRACE BURROWES

"A riveting, beautifully written, exquisitely detailed historical romance. Riley's characters are unique, realistic, and compelling, and readers won't want to put the book down before reaching Theodosia and Ewan's happily ever after." - ALYSSA COLE, author of An Extraordinary Union

"Riley's novel is as bittersweet as the title suggests -- deftly weaving issues of class and race into a complex second-chance love story" - SARAH MACLEAN - Washington Post Click for Article

"Vanessa Riley delivers an intriguing, tension-filled premise. In The Bittersweet Bride, an unlikely couple torn apart by past betrayal and prejudice are drawn back together in a compelling story of undying romance and second-chance love." -- JULIE KLASSEN, Author of The Maid of Fairbourne Hall

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