Summer to Remember / Mary Balogh 320 p.

Summer to Remember / Mary Balogh 320 p.

Lauren Edgeworth is featured in this Bedwyn family series prequel.  She was left at the altar in One Night of Love.  She was left with the Earl of Kilbourne's family when her mother married the Earl's brother when they left on their wedding trip,  a trip from which no one returned.  She maintains icy control on herself.  Surrounded by a caring step-family, she longs to break free of these loving bonds to live her life on her own terms.  When her eyes first meet Viscount 'Kit' Ravensberg, he is sparing in a very public park with common labors-- protecting a maid's honor.  Kit has been acting the rake since his father banished him from the family home.  To thwart his father's plan to marry him to a neighbor's sister, he bets that he can marry, in a month, a very proper wife...Lauren.  When he admits the bet to Lauren, she conceives a plot to give both what they want, he not forced to marry his neighbor and she to be pronounced unmarriageable.  However she wants a summer to remember and Kit sets out to do just that for her.

One Night to Love / Mary Balogh 375 p.

One Night to Love / Mary Balogh 375 p.

In this prequel to the Bedwyn family series, Lily Doyle, Sergeant's daughter, is hurriedly married to Neville Wyatt, Viscount of Earl of Kilbourne, when an encounter with a French scouting party leaves Doyle's father dead.  Being the wife of an officer will protect her if captured by the French.  After one night of love, a re-engagement with the French leaves a wounded Neville sees Lily shot and believes her dead.  When the wounded Neville returns to England he enters into an engagement with a childhood friend.  Life throws the entire family a curve ball when Lily appears at the church minutes before Neville and Lauren Edgeworth wed.   

Slightly Wicked / Mary Balogh 342 p.

Mary Balogh returns for the 3rd episode in the tale of the Bedwyn family.  Judith Law decides have a last fling with a stranger before entering into the dreary life of an unpaid servant at her aunt's country house.  When that Rannulf comes courting her cousin Julia, Julia is surprised as is Rannulf.  Rannulf proposes but Judith declines, standing by her sense of honor.  Neither can forget the night.  And the sensuous Regency romance builds.