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The Stranger I Married (Paperback)

by Sylvia Day (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Brava (26 Dec 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 075821474X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0758214744
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 292,573 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Day provides plenty of richly detailed love scenes in each tale, and her wickedly entertaining combination of steamy sex and bold language is certain to be appreciated by readers who like hot historicals by Virginia llenley and Susan Johnson."

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They are London's most scandalous couple. Isabel, Lady Pelham, and Gerard Faulkner, Marquess of Grayson, are well matched in all things - their lusty appetites, constant paramours, wicked wits, provocative reputations, and their absolute refusal ever to ruin their marriage of convenience by falling in love with one another. Isabel knows such a charming rake will never appeal to her guarded heart, nor will she sway his philandering one. It is a most agreeable sham...until a shocking turn of events sends Gerard from her side. Now, four years later, Gerard has come home to Isabel. But the carefree, boyish rogue who left has been replaced by a brooding, powerful, irresistible man who is determined to seduce his way into her affections. Gone is the devil-may-care companion who shared her friendship and nothing more, and in his place is temptation itself...a husband who desires Isabel body and soul and who will stop at nothing to win her love. No, this is not at all the man she had married. But he is the man who might finally steal her heart...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very, very sexy!, 9 Feb 2007
By LEP "LEP" (Halesowen, England) - See all my reviews
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If you don't like a lot of explicit sex, don't read this book. I don't mind myself, but I know that other readers have greater sensitivities than I do.

There is already a good review synopsis given, so I'll try not to repeat that. The book starts in 1815 when Gerard Faulkner, Marquess of Grayson is twenty two. Isabel, Lady Pelham, is a beautiful twenty six year old widow. She is somewhat scandelous as she openly takes lovers, her current lover is Gray's best friend. Isabel's dead husband Pelham was an extremely handsome, charming man, who seduced her straight out of the schoolroom when she was seventeen. Isabel was madly in love with him and thought that her love was reciprocated. However, within six months of their marriage Pelham was off to other beds. Isabel desparately hurt, vows never to love again and when Pelham dies, vows never to marry again. She chooses unmarried lovers and her affairs are all relatively long term, lasting a few years. Unfortunately for her, nearly all of her unmarried lovers fall in love with her and want to marry her, so in the end she ends up hurting them.

Gerard (Gray), a fun loving young rake is in love with his childhood sweetheart, Emily. While off on his Grand Tour of Europe for a year, Gray's mother, a very embittered woman who appears to hate to see him happy, instils doubt in Emily's mind regarding Gray's fidelity. An unhappy Emily marries someone else. When Gray returns he is devestated. However, the two conduct an affair although Gray is not physically faithful.

Gray is attracted to Pel (Isabel), who is a friend. He decides that she would make the ideal wife to spite his mother. He persuades Isabel that if she were already married then her lovers would not want to marry her and despite her fear that she is too old for him, they marry. The bargain is that both continue with their present lives and succession of lovers and neither will interfer. They are good friends and enjoy each others' company. Then Gray receives a letter from his poisonous mother, informing him that Emily and her baby, which is Gray's, have died in childbirth. Overcome with despair and guilt, Gray leaves his London house and Isabel. He spends the next four years 'finding himself'.

Four years later Isabel is shocked to discover that her husband has returned home. Every week for the four years she has written to him, but without reply from him. (I don't quite know how she managed that as she didn't actually know where he was - anyway that's a minor point!).

Gray has changed. Gone is the frivolous carefree young man. The more mature man standing in front of her is serious, harder and determined that he and his wife will be in truth, man and wife. Isabel panics. Gray reminds her so much of her late husband Pelham, whose portrait she keeps in her bedroom to remind her that trusting a man means heartbreak. She believes that handsome men can not be true to their wives because of all the temptation put their way by other women. Although she is now madly attracted to her husband, she fights the attraction by glancing at her late husband's portrait and telling herself that Gray is just like him.

Gray therefore has a battle on his hands to persuade his wife that he has changed, wants only her and will be true to her.

Both characters have past baggage to disperse of. Plus the fact that all through the book, Isabel harps on about the age difference and that she is "old". As she is only four years older than him and men did, and indeed still do, marry older women, e.g. Disralli, I can't see what all the fuss is about. Also included are the minor characters of Gray's awful mother, Isabel's mother and her brother Rhys and his romance and Gray's brother.

A good book, I enjoyed it.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Her Usual Stunning Best!, 13 Feb 2007
By K. Montgomery "http://lurvalamode.wordpress.com" (Columbus, GA) - See all my reviews
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Lady Pelham and Gerard Faulkner, Marquess of Grayson, have a marriage most scandalous. Flouting the thin conventions of unions of convenience, they openly flaunt their preferences for other people in their respective beds. Not only that, but they dare to rub along well together, like rascally brother and doting sister. They strike a bargain--to never let love pollute the fine arrangement they have. Isabel has learned her lesson well regarding notorious rakes while Gerard is determined to enjoy his youth to the fullest: parties, routes, paramours and all the best inanities his money can buy. Why fix what isn't broken?

But when tragedy strikes, Gerard disappears from Isabel's life completely. Fours years after, he returns home a changed man. Indeed, it is as if he is one for the very first time. Isabel isn't quite sure how to handle the serious, almost melancholy gentleman and soon his blatant interest in her turns her set routines into more of a crush than the Ton's famous balls. Everywhere she turns, Gerard stands, cajoling, begging, and teasing her body into unraveling its will to resist him. Suddenly, life's not as black and white as she'd like it to be and she begins to fear Gerard may have found a way into her guarded heart. When she begins to bend to the sway, will he know how to keep her heart safe?

Ms. Day consistently pens storylines populated with characters readers can understand, sympathize with and grow to enjoy over the course of the book. The sensual atmosphere that is so much a part of her latest undulates beneath the surface constantly, occasionally boils over into full blazingly carnal delights and then simmers once more, teasing readers till the next exquisite encounter. Their passion is toe curling and yet at other times it is a dueling, one in which neither can fully give their hearts. At least not right away. The pacing works well throughout and there is a very interesting subplot involving Isabel's brother and a spinsterish miss. As wonderful as the writing was, I was left in wanting of more of their story. Other than that, The Stranger I Married is more than worthy to grace Ms. Day's bookshelf along with her previous installments. This is an auto buy author, a stunning mistress of sensually charged romance with characters of depth, engaging emotions and plots. Look for her next sensual historical, "Passion for the Game", coming June 1, 2007.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly enjoyable, 7 Jan 2009
This is a great book.
I enjoyed how their relationship developed over a period of 6 years or more, from the momment when they are simply friends to then when Grayson returns and they start to see each other in a new light.
I particularly enjoyed their flawed and only too ordinarily human characters, made their story a bit more believable.
This is a throughly enjoyable book that i'm likely to re-visit again.
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