Wayward Bride

By Daphne Clair

Book Overview

The Wayward Bride by Daphne Clair released on Apr 24, 1990 is available now for purchase. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0263764044
• ISBN13: 9780263764048
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Psychological Read

I reread this recently since I was in a mood for a dark read. This is more of a psychological drama than a romance. The heroine is in this is very damaged, perhaps too damaged for the HEA to be very believable. The book starts and ends with the hero's POV. He is an up-and-coming lawyer and meets the boss's 21 year old daughter, with no unsubtle push from the boss. The heroine comes across as a pampered, heartless man-eater and the hero is determined not to be one of her victims. Like so many of the young men that hang around her. He takes an aloof, slightly condescending attitude towards her but is drawn to her all the same because he also senses that she has been very hurt. They start dating and eventually marry. A terrible event happens and her past comes out because of it. The hero realizes the heroine is not the empty-headed party girl that he sometimes treat her as. He does what he can to help her heal, even if it means that she leaves him. I always tear up at the scene where he thinks she has left him for another man and receives a postcard from her. He holds the postcard in his hands and tells her to "be happy". I'm a longtime Daphne Clair fan. A lot of her books from this period have a certain moodiness that I like. Last year, she returned to the Presents line after a five year absence and I find her more recent books a lot more bland in comparison.