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21/10/2021

The Defiant Daughter (The Ashmead Heirs #2) by Caroline Warfield. Historical Romance Release & ARC Review.

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Madelyn assumed marriage as an old man’s ornament would be better than life with her abusive mother. She was wrong.

Now the widowed Duchess of Glenmoor, she wrestles with ugly memories and cultivates a simple life. She is content. At least, she was until her half-brother returned to Ashmead bringing a friend with knowing eyes and coal black hair to capture her thoughts.

Colonel Brynn Morgan’s days as an engineer in his father’s coal mines in Wales are long behind him. With peace come at last and Napoleon gone, he makes a life for himself analyzing the reports about military and naval facilities worldwide for a shadowy government department. What income he has is committed elsewhere. He has nothing to offer a wife, much less a dowager duchess.

More lies between the duchess and the man she wants than money and class. They have personal demons to slay.


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Madelyn, the widowed Duchess of Glenmoor is at last living a peaceful life without being under the control of horrible men.  She is not about to let any man control her again,  even her well meaning family. When someone turns up to threaten the peace and possibly turn other peoples lives upside down she only has one person to turn to. 
Colonel Brynn Morgan long ago left behind his life in the mines of Wales. That doesn't mean he's forgotten the painful memories.  When a friend asks for help there's only one answer,  even if it might cause him heartache. 
Our heroine really wants to be independent but our hero wants to look after her. 
This is a very entertaining historical romance that is full of great characters dealing with difficult family issues.  
This is the second book in the series,  and while you don't have to have read the first one to enjoy this, I personally think it would be better.  
A very enjoyable read. 


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Caroline Warfield is the pseudonym of a writer who wishes she had walked through fascinating times in the shoes of one of her characters—but which one?

Caro has at various times been an army brat, a librarian, a poet, a raiser of children, a nun, a bird watcher, an Internet and Web services manager, a conference speaker, an indexer, a tech writer, a genealogist, and, of course, a romantic. She has sailed through the English channel while it was still mined from WWII, stood on the walls of Troy, searched Scotland for the location of an entirely fictional castle (and found it), climbed the steps to the Parthenon, floated down the Thames from the tower to Greenwich, shopped in the Ginza, lost herself in the Louvre, gone on a night tour of the Singapore zoo, walked in the Black Forest, and explored the underground cistern of Istanbul.

By far the biggest adventure has been forty-five years of marriage to a prince among men.

She sits in front of a keyboard at a desk surrounded by windows, looks out at the trees and imagines. Her greatest joy is when one of those imaginings comes to life on the page and in the imagination of her readers.




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