The Summer Bride

by Anne Gracie

Overview

From the award-winning author of The Spring Bride comes the conclusion to the quartet about four sisters, four weddings, and a bride for every season...

Fiercely independent Daisy Chance has a dream—and it doesn’t involve marriage or babies (or being under any man’s thumb). Raised in poverty, she has a passion—and a talent—for making beautiful clothes. Daisy aims to become the finest dressmaker in London.
 
Dashing Irishman Patrick Flynn is wealthy and ambitious, and has entered society to find an aristocratic bride. Instead, he finds himself growing increasingly attracted to the headstrong, clever and outspoken Daisy. She’s wrong in every way—except the way she sets his heart racing.
 
However, when Flynn proposes marriage, Daisy refuses. She won't give up her hard-won independence. Besides, she doesn't want to join the fine ladies of society—she wants to dress them. She might, however, consider becoming Flynn's secret mistress...
 
But Flynn wants a wife, and when he sets his heart on something, nothing can stand in his way...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425283806
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/05/2016
Series:	Chance Sisters Series , #4
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	528,751
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Anne Gracie is the award-winning author of the Marriage of Convenience Romances and the Chance Sisters Romances. She spent her childhood and youth on the move. The gypsy life taught her that humor and love are universal languages and that favorite books can take you home, wherever you are. Anne started her first novel while backpacking solo around the world, writing by hand in notebooks. Since then, her books have been translated into more than sixteen languages, and include Japanese manga editions. As well as writing, Anne promotes adult literacy, flings balls for her dog, enjoys her tangled garden, and keeps bees.

Editorial Reviews

I never miss an Anne Gracie book.”
—Julia Quinn, New York Times bestselling author

“For fabulous Regency flavor, witty and addictive, you can’t go past Anne Gracie.”
—Stephanie Laurens, #1 New York Times bestselling author 

"[A] confection that brims with kindness and heartfelt sincerity...you can’t do much better than Anne Gracie who offers her share of daring escapes, stolen kisses, and heartfelt romance in a tale that carries the effervescent charm of the best Disney fairy-tales."
—Entertainment Weekly, on Marry in Scandal

“With her signature superbly nuanced characters, subtle sense of wit, and richly emotional writing, Gracie puts her distinctive stamp on a classic Regency plot.”
—Chicago Tribune, on The Accidental Wedding

“Anne Gracie’s writing dances that thin line between always familiar and always fresh.”
—New York Journal of Books

“Will keep readers entranced…. A totally delightful read!”
—RT Book Reviews, on Marry in Haste

From the Publisher

06/15/2016
Unlike the other Chance sisters, Daisy doesn't want to get married or, considering her cockney accent, limp, and guttersnipe origins, become a "la-de-da lady." Instead, she dreams of an upscale dress shop of her own, where she can put her considerable designing talent and keen eye for fashion to work. This is a dream she would never put in the hands of a husband, or anyone else, not even Irish shipping magnate Patrick Flynn, a man she's clandestinely adored from the first day she met him. But Flynn has a dream, too, and plainspoken, career-focused Daisy is right at its core—if only he can get past her deeply rooted distrust and self-worth issues and convince her to take a chance on him. VERDICT Passionate and sumptuously witty, this final book in Gracie's sparkling quartet has the entire household rooting (and plotting) for Daisy and Flynn to get things right. Gracie (The Spring Bride) lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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