In the fourth book of the Skye O’Malley series we follow her youngest daughter, Velvet de Marisco. Being the only one of Skye’s children to spend the entirety of her childhood with their mother, and being fortunate enough to have her father in her life, Velvet is well loved and somewhat spoiled. She is also educated, intelligent, beautiful, and being her fathers only biological child, a wealthy heiress. Her enchanted life in the countryside comes to an end when the man she was betrothed to as a child informs her that he is coming from Scotland to celebrate their marriage a year early, due to the death of his father and brother which has left him the last living male in his family. Velvet is infuriated with both the tone of his letter and the way in which he demands that they marry immediately so that he can get an heir. Clever Velvet is able to escape her intended husband when she becomes a maid of honor for the English queen, a woman who becomes infuriated with any man who tries to take her ladies away from her.
Fitting in with the trend of enemies to lovers that is so popular right now, you’ll enjoy reading about the fights that happen between Velvet and the Scottish earl which ultimately lead them to learning to love one another. There is a lot that happens in between, and I won’t say anything more. It involves an unfortunate case of miscommunication and misunderstanding and I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who is interested in reading.
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