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Dear Reader,

In my Brides Trilogy, three unconventional young women vow never to marry, only-one by one-to be overtaken by destiny. Scholarly Olivia is most certainly The Least Likely Bride--

One moment Lady Olivia Granville is strolling along a path, her nose buried in a tome of Greek philosophy; the next she is plunging down a rocky cliff. When she regains consciousness, she is naked and unwittingly trapped on a pirate ship. Her captor, though, is no ordinary pirate. Wickedly handsome, disturbingly mysterious, the grey-eyed master of the Wind Dancer is both a physician and an artist, and admits to making his living from the sea.

Most disconcerting of all, when he turns his glittering eyes on her, he sees not the stammering, hopelessly bookish young girl Olivia has always been, but a passionate, beautiful woman who can, if she chooses, embark on the adventure and the love of a lifetime.

I invite you to share in Olivia's passionate, enchanting adventure.

Warmest wishes,
(signed)Jane Feather

P.S. For Portia's story, be sure to read The Hostage Bride, and you will catch Phoebe's story in The Accidental Bride. And look for my next novel, The Window's Kiss, in early 2001-- in which my heroine has been widowed not less than four times!

This was most definitely a let down. The writing was good, but the plot was not. I know there will be some who will love it, but I finished this yesterday and the more I think about it, the less I like it. Olivia seemed to change from the other two books, not slightly as would be expected, but drastically, and she constantly forsakes her friends, family, and her own beliefs. I never could like her or Anthony, who had split personalities and was never one person. Their whole relationship was basically lust and I never felt any love between the two. I felt that taking the story in a different direction was a mistake, and that the author should have kept it on land, minus a pirate. I think it would have been great if the hero would have been someone equally as smart as Olivia, who challenged her intellect and wits, but was a rake, or something similar, in the ton. Someone different than the ordinary, but someone who is NOT Anthony. Then I think the story would have been better and I might have liked Olivia.

The sad thing is that I was really let down by this book because the previous two were really great. It felt like this should not be in this trilogy and should be a standalone. I disliked that the whole feel was different than the other two. Olivia described being with Anthony in a dream and that's how I felt reading this, in a surreal, unbelievably bad dream. I never really liked the whole war thing set in these books and felt it took away from the romances, but somehow fit in with The Hostage Bride, not that it matters with this book. The whole title is a total misnomer, and the end defeats the whole purpose of the 'Bride' trilogy. Well, best of luck to future readers.

A word on the cover: Why is it Victorian-style? This takes place in the mid-sixteen hundreds. Besides, Olivia has black hair. Oh well...

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