The Awakening by Tamara Leigh
The Awakening by Tamara Leigh Series: Age of Faith Series Book #7
on January 15, 2018
Genres: Fiction / Romance / General, Fiction / Romance / Historical / General, Fiction / Romance / Historical / Medieval, Fiction / Christian / Romance / Historical
Pages: 432
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From USA Today Bestselling author, Tamara Leigh, the seventh book in the AGE OF FAITH series-featuring Lady Laura Middleton of THE YIELDING and Sir Lothaire Soames of THE VEXING.FAR BETTER TO LOVE WITHOUT PROFIT...Even if she must sell herself in marriage to the highest bidder, Lady Laura Middleton is determined to provide her daughter a home and protector. But when Queen Eleanor presents her cousin with four suitors, among them is one who believes Laura betrayed him ten years past. Despite her attempts to discourage his pursuit, he is determined to have her for the dowry needed to save his lands. Should he prevail, how is she to shield her daughter from the enemy who lurks within his walls? And what of her heart? If she reveals the truth of her betrayal, might he love her again?...THAN LOVE NOT AND REAP BITTERNESSBeware the Delilah, my son. Beware the Jezebel-advice Baron Lothaire Soames should have heeded as a young man. Now in need of funds, he faces marriage to the woman he lost to scandal. Though he vows to find another way to return prosperity to his lands, his former betrothed proves his only hope and he grudgingly vies to become her worthiest suitor-only to be struck by how little it takes his heart to pick up where it left off. Can he forgive what cannot be forgotten? More, will she forever yearn for the man who fathered her child?
Lady Laura Middleton is damaged goods. Once betrothed to Baron Lothaire Soames, Laura has fallen into scandal and must find a way to care for herself and her tainted daughter. She approaches her distant cousin Queen Eleanor for help and is given four suitors to choose from – one happens to be her former betrothed the handsome Baron Lothaire Soames. Ten years since he last saw Laura, but his desperate need for funds overrides his feelings of her past betrayal. Can Lothaire put aside his hurt and bitterness to make a marriage work with his former betrothed? Can Laura see herself as anything but damaged goods?
Leigh weaves a magnificent story of devastation and betrayal. But who is the true Judas? The Awakening is by far the most intricate of plot lines that I have read of her Age of Faith books. I could not put the book down and read far into the night. My only qualm is that she doesn’t give as much physical description of her characters all throughout the book that I would like. But the Medieval language is so accurate that it takes a few pages to get into the swing of reading her steady cadence.
“She stepped forward and placed on Lothaire’s arm the slender fingers recently familiar with the other man. ‘Your rival, Lord Benton, the handsome Baron Soames of Lexeter. The fourth of four-well, I believe ‘tis only four – suitors.’ She made a face that once more sent Lothaire into the past. ‘We shall see, hmm?’ She released him, and he breathed again. But only for a moment. As she turned away, the ends of her unbound hair swept his wrist and the back of his hand, and he remembered the feel of strands he should never have drawn his fingers through.”
Another magnificent tale and one I highly recommend. Although The Awakening can stand on its own as a single read, the series is best read as a whole.
