My Review: In Midnight’s Budding Morrow, the author creates a marriage of convenience story that is rich and real in it’s conflict. The hero and heroine are both insecure in their positions in life, and allow those insecurities to color their interactions with each other and those around them. The heroine also struggles with depression after loss, and they have to fight to find each other. Each longs to be loved, but struggles to believe they are worthy. Richly atmospheric, readers who love Julie Klassen and Sarah Ladd will enjoy this book.
Can real love grow between a wallflower and an unrepentant rogue?
Sarah Drayton is eager to spend time with her best friend at her crumbling Northumberland castle estate. Matrimony is the last thing on her mind and the last thing she expects to be faced with on a holiday. Yet she finds herself being inveigled into a marriage of convenience with her friend’s rakish brother.
When James Langley returns to his family’s estate, he can’t be bothered to pay attention to his responsibilities as the heir. War is raging and he wants only distraction, not serious tethers. But his roguish ways have backed him into a corner, and he has little choice but to obey his father’s stunning decree: marry before returning to war, or else. Suddenly he finds himself wedded to a clever and capable woman he does not love.
Sarah craves love and a place to belong, neither of which James offered before returning to the battlefront. Now everyone around her thinks she married above her station, and they have no intention of rewarding her for such impertinence. It isn’t until her husband returns from war seemingly changed that she begins to hope they may find real happiness. But can she trust that this rake has truly reformed?
When tragedy strikes, this pair must learn to trust God and his plans. Will they be destroyed . . . or will they discover that even in the darkest depths of night, the morning still holds hope?
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Carolyn Miller is an inspirational romance author who lives in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, with her husband and four children.
A longtime lover of romance, especially that of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer’s Regency era, Carolyn holds a BA in English literature and loves drawing readers into fictional worlds that show the truth of God’s grace in our lives. She enjoys music, films, gardens, art, travel, and food.
Miller’s novels have won a number of RWA and ACFW contests. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Australasian Christian Writers.
Learn more about Carolyn at www.carolynmillerauthor.com, or find her on Facebook (Carolyn Miller Author), Instagram (@CarolynMillerAuthor), and Twitter (@CarolynMAuthor).
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Thanks so much for sharing your lovely review. Appreciate you!
Carolyn is a new author for so I have not read any of her books- after reading the excerpt I would like to read one of her books
I haven’t read Carolyn Miller but I keep hearing wonderful things about her books. I’m going to put her on my to read list for summer.
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I really enjoy her books.
This sound’s like a book I would enjoy. You were right this is certainly a different genre. However, in this case different is a plus.