A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

THE SNOW WHITE BRIDE

Author: Claire Delacroix ISBN: 0446614440 11/2005 HISTORICAL Publisher: WARNER BOOKS
Time Period: Medieval 1421

The Snow White Bride by Claire Delacroix

More cherished than gold are the jewels of Kinfairlie, and only the worthiest may fight for their love…

The Laird of Kinfairlie has helped his sisters, each a gem in her own right, to find husbands. Now the laird himself seeks to wed, and pins his hopes on…

THE SNOW WHITE BRIDE

Lady Eleanor knows better than to dream of romance and love. Married twice to secure her father's alliances, she has learned that she is desirable only for her fortune. When the Laird of Kinfairlie's sisters ask her to wed their brother, Alexander, Eleanor agrees, expecting only to save herself from danger. But Alexander is like no man she's known before, a man more interested in courting her smile than her obedience, a man who values her counsel as much as her newly awakened passion…and a man unaware that Eleanor is the key to a fortune that could ensure the future of everything he holds dear. Now, ruthless enemies will stop at nothing to secure Eleanor's capture. Will she dare to trust her new husband before it's too late for her, for Alexander, and for Kinfairlie?

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

One thing that never ceases to amaze me about a Claire Delacroix book is the amount of passion and emotion that can be found in 400-pages. Her characters are above reproach and realistic enough to be sitting next to me enjoying the story right along with me. Her love scenes are explosive, and some have brought tears to my eyes.

When the Laird of Kinfairlie gets it into his head that he needs to marry off his sisters one by one, he has made a grave mistake. For these brilliant woman have no intention of sitting idly by and being picked like cows to the slaughter. They devise a plan to get him married, so that he will have too much on his mind to worry about marrying them off. When they see Lady Eleanor praying alone in their chapel on Christmas Eve night, they realize that there is no better chance to set their plan in motion, for it is obvious that Eleanor needs a savior and protector and only Alexander will do.

When Alexander sees the beauty that his sisters have brought into his hall, the only thing that he can think of is how to make her smile. She is lovely and fearful, and deep inside Alexander knows that she is the woman he should be with, even if his mind rebels against the thought. When Eleanor decides that Alexander can help to save her from her horrible fate at the hands of her awful brother-in-law, she jumps at the chance to marry him. Theirs is a marriage that starts off rocky, but grows into a beautiful, loving relationship that took my breath away.

Claire Delacroix writes the stuff that romance is made of. I don't know how she does it, but she never fails to take me away to a special place where fairy tales come true.

Kristal Gorman

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