They eventually find the bride and she loves someone else. The more time they spend together Thorne realizes the one he wants to spend his life with, the one he loves is right by his side, helping him search for the runaway bride. She knows her way around Whitechapel and agrees to help him find his bride just so she can be with him. Although she knows they can never be together, as society won’t accept a bastard as the wife of a Duke. Her feelings for him grow even deeper and she admits to herself she loves him. He finds him self returning time and time again to the tavern. Instead he and Gillie become friends.When Thorne leaves he feels lost with out her. They come from different worlds and they both realize love is an impossibility. As he slowly recovers they each find they are more attracted to the other one. Over the week Gillie nurses Thorne she becomes enamored with him. He’s an unconscious seriously injured, handsome gentleman who has no business being in Whitechapel.Ĭlass is what separates them. Knowing how kindness saved her, she takes the badly beaten man into her rooms above the tavern. Gillie works and saves her money and is now the owner of the tavern. Gillie Trewlove, left on a doorstep at birth is raised by a kind woman. Thorne searches for his bride and is mugged and left for dead in the alley behind The Mermaid and Unicorn tavern. The Duke of Thornley’s bride leaves him at the alter and disappears into the seedy side of London, Whitechapel. WHEN A DUKE LOVES A WOMAN, by Lorraine Heath, is a wonderful story.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |