Her Counterfeit Husband - Ruth Ann Nordin

Her Counterfeit Husband

By Ruth Ann Nordin

  • Release Date: 2012-09-05
  • Genre: Historical Romance
Score: 4
4
From 559 Ratings

Description

Anna feels little anguish when she sees the dead body of her husband. The young widow has no plans to mourn over the cruel Duke of Watkins, but she knows that his untimely death will put her at the mercy of his malicious younger brother. With help from her loyal butler, Anna smuggles away the body in the dead of night.

Anna hopes to keep her husband’s death a secret until she’s settled far from the reach of her spiteful brother-in-law. When she stumbles upon a wounded man who bears an uncanny resemblance to her husband and has forgotten his memory, she wonders if she’s found the solution to all their problems. She quickly convinces him he is her husband.

To her surprise, he's so much better than the gentleman she buried. After years in a cold marriage, she is vulnerable to his tender words and sweet touches. But her husband's younger brother is still on the prowl, and giving into her feelings could possibly doom them both.

Reviews

  • Great story

    5
    By karri uzumaki
    I really enjoyed this story. The writer tell a wonderful tale.
  • Amazing

    5
    By Ada-anne
    When I tell you this book is good, believe me!!!
  • Good easy read

    2
    By Lucky Without a K
    A good read that was easy enough to finish in one setting
  • Her Counterfeit Husband

    5
    By Fan from AZ
    Liked this book overall. The author successfully made me love some of the characters & wish ill to others.
  • A real good story

    5
    By Eitel19
    I enjoyed this book I found when I was looking for another book.
  • Lovely!

    5
    By Howling gale
    I loved it. It warms my heart🙂
  • Her Counterfeit Husband

    5
    By magslujan
    This is a very good story, I have read some of your other books and have never been disappointed, I highly recommend this book and truly enjoyed this book and so glad it has a happy ending.
  • So many mistakrs

    3
    By Kimbo1216
    For an author this well know and with so many regency novels, I’m surprised by the number of historical inaccuracies. Even the most formal duke and duchess wouldn’t “your grave” each other to death. They’d simply be “duchess” or “duke” or more likely the duke would just be addressed by his title only (ie watkins). A lord wouldn’t introduce himself and his wife as “lord of.../lady of”...its be early of hedwrett (or whatever rank he had) and countess... An unmarried daughter of a lord would be lady first name. Not lady last name. And they wouldn’t need to look for a priest in Gretna Green. Most couples just went to the blacksmith as it was the first stop across the border. So many distracting mistakes. The overall story was intriguing, but the development was lacking. This could have been a really great story if developed more. Instead, I only had surface level investment because it basically skimmed through what should have had more detail. And there really should have been more bewilderment over the situation verses the casual acceptance we saw. I’ve read this author before, mostly her westerns I believe. Maybe my memory is faulty, or maybe I’m less picky on westerns, but I don’t recall this many mistakes. Just take some time to google and study regency times. I get it’s impossible to perfect, and we don’t know all the protocols, but we do have an idea of the basics which were largely missed in this telling.
  • Has some promise

    3
    By AuntSuze
    Nordin is a good storyteller, though very weak in English. For example, while pronounced the same, peek, peak, and pique have vastly different meanings. Nordin is unaware of this, and if you love correct English, you will find all her books annoying. This one is no exception. She should spend the money on a proofreader and/or editor to fix her many mistakes. As a historical costumer, the cover is circa 1850, not the 1815 indicated in the book. Once again, failure to pay attention to detail always detracts from historical works.