Maddy along with her five young siblings, are all orphans since their father passed away. She has been living in a small cottage making it by on honey and the garden. When she finds a stranger slipping from his horse and falling on his head. Knowing that she just can't leave him out, she beings him inside her cottage, and stays by his bedside. When he wakes up, he has no idea who he is, and is injured and recovering from a fever. Maddy knows how dangerous it is to have this man in her home, but there is something intriguing about the man that only draws her closer to him. When Nash Renfrew finds himself in the care of a young woman and five children, he is fascinated by her caring nature. When his memory does return, he doesn't at first tell Maddy, wanting to kindle the desire that is growing between them. Maddy is not at all what he would wish for in a wife, but he wants her in his life even though he knows he could never give her love...but he can give her a life of passion and desire and tenderness.As the fourth in the series, I have truly enjoyed seeing these five friends, who are rakes, but to see love prove them wrong. There is a certain way about that way Anne Gracie puts together her stories. I won't say she is my ultimate favorite author...but I have truly enjoyed reading her works. The Fourth book is Nash's story. I do love a good amnesia story, and this one was well done. Sometimes they aren't always done very good, but this one had a bit more to the plot and I loved the witty humor that comes out of the story. There is also a fun lightheartedness about it that captivated me from the beginning. The five young children were absolutely delightful and they were a ROMP!! There is a instant attraction, but their relationship is more gradual too. We see how much they like each other, but the love side of things isn't instataneous. The level of sensuality was warm, not too strong in the story, but not light either. I felt like it was perfectly balanced along with the story line. The Accidental Wedding proved to be a memorable story that captured my heart from the first page. Definitely worth your time and you will not be disappointed. The only con I could see in this story is it takes a little bit to get into the story, but once you do...you will be hooked! :)

Favorite Quote
He slanted a wicked grin at her. "And am I all right? Nothing broken? In need of attention?"
His head and his ankle were injured: she'd been looking right smack bang in between. Where she had no business to be looking. She squirmed with mortification.
"It doesn't matter," she mumbled
"Actually I'm feeling a bit hot. And I'm sure there's a swelling. And it's aching. Are you sure you wouldn't like to check me?" His expression was pure, laughing devil.
"No, I--"
"Little liar." He reached out a lazy hand, cupped the back of her head, and kissed her.
It was a slow, soft kiss, warm as the morning sun, laced with the dark mystery of the night. Rich with promise. ( )

A nice satisfying historical. The plot was familiar. Nobleman falls off horse in front of impoverished gentlewoman's cottage and she nurses him back to health. It was easy to figure out all of the mysteries and there were not unexpected plot twists. This was a fairly light hearted story. There was no angst.

There were several areas however, where the author did a better than average job and lifted this book above its competition. The writing was light and fluid. For the most part the actions of the characters were not wildly anachronistic and there was a fairly good sense the time period. There was some sex but there was more justification for it, at least the first time than most regencies today which seem to entirely ignore social mores of the time. The children were well written but did not overtake the story. The heroine stood up for herself without seeming to be just a modern woman in a long dress. There was one time in particular where the author set up a familiar situation and then totally had her heroine do something not normally done in romances. The heroine overhears the hero's aunt bad mouthing her to the hero's brother, an earl, all about how she is a scheming hussy and needs to be bought off. Instead of slinking away and crying and/or taking off for parts unknown, the heroine barges into the room and treats the old lady and the Earl to a tirade about their lack of manners and lack of faith in the decisions the hero makes. I was all "you go girl!" ( )

This hero was INFURIATING. ( )

One of the best romances I've read this year. Anne's characterisation skills are fantastic. ( )

An unoriginal pick-and-mix of historical romance tropes, unrelieved by either characterisation or narrative.

The first few chapters were delightful. A handsome aristocrat is thrown from his horse and suffers head and leg injuries right outside of the cottage of a beautiful, intelligent, impoverished, hard-working Cinderella stereotype. With the help of the brood of Trapp Family kids she’s raising, she takes in the injured stranger and nurses him back to consciousness and health. A nice meet-cute, but the annoyingly perfect kids should have started the alarm bells ringing.

Once the stranger recovers first his consciousness and then his memory, two or three story lines begin to develop, none of them interesting enough to keep this reader’s attention.

The hero proves to be not what he seems, neither does the heroine. A bunch of forgettable anatagonysts—mean gossips, miserly crooks, et al. are vanquished and the heroine proves her aristrocratic background with a perfectly executed curtsy.
The author writes well, if you ignore the anachronistic bloopers. Unfortunately the content is weak.
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f I had to sum up this book in a word, it would be ‘generic’. ( )