The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn- Book Review

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn
Rokesbys #2
Releasing May 30, 2017
Avon

Book Blurb

While you were sleeping...
With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier's life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie...

I told everyone I was your wife
When Edward comes to, he's more than a little confused. The blow to his head knocked out six months of his memory, but surely he would recall getting married. He knows who Cecilia Harcourt is—even if he does not recall her face—and with everyone calling her his wife, he decides it must be true, even though he'd always assumed he'd marry his neighbor back in England.

If only it were true...
Cecilia risks her entire future by giving herself—completely—to the man she loves. But when the truth comes out, Edward may have a few surprises of his own for the new Mrs. Rokesby.

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Book Excerpt

Here's a sneak peek at an exciting moment from The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband:

Manhattan Island
July 1779

His head hurt.
Correction, his head really hurt.
It was hard to tell, though, just what sort of pain it was. He might have been shot through the head with a musket ball...

...

That seemed plausible, given his current location in New York (or was it Connecticut?) and his current occupation as a captain in His Majesty's army.

There was a war going on, in case one hadn't noticed.

But this particular pounding—the one that felt more like someone was bashing his skull with a cannon (not a cannonball, mind you, but an actual cannon) seemed to indicate that he had been attacked with a blunter instrument than a bullet.

An anvil, perhaps. Dropped from a second-story window.

But if one cared to look on the bright side, a pain such as this did seem to indicate that he wasn't dead, which was also a plausible fate, given all the same facts that had led him to believe he might have been shot.

That war he'd mentioned... people did die.

With alarming regularity.

So he wasn't dead. That was good. But he also wasn't sure where he was, precisely. The obvious next step would be to open his eyes, but his eyelids were translucent enough for him to realize that it was the middle of the day, and while he did like to look on the metaphorical bright side, he was fairly certain that the literal one would prove blinding.

So he kept his eyes closed.

But he listened...

[Excerpt continues with Edward's awakening scene and his confusion about being married to Cecilia]

Book Review

A very dear friend of mine, Nat at Reading Romances, introduced me to Julia Quinn during a reading challenge. I have fell in love with Julia Quinn's writing and her humorous quips. The Girl with the Make Believe Husband was a spin off of "While You were Sleeping". The heroine journeys across the ocean to find her injured brother. In her quest to find him, she finds tangled in a web of lies and suddenly the wife of her brother's BFF, who he himself is lying unconscious in a hospital. This book is a bit different from her previous books, the storyline is in New York, during the Revolutionary War. Follow along on their path to HEA. It's a fun tale, one that will pull you in from the start. I encourage you to read the first book in the series, Because of Miss Bridgerton, so you are able to understand a bit more when prior characters make cameo appearances.

About the Author

Julia Quinn is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five novels for Avon Books, and one of only sixteen authors ever to be inducted in the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.

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