His Betrothed

by Gayle Callen

Book Overview

She was a reluctant bride...

When Lady Roselyn Harrington discovers an injured sailor from the Spanish Armada washed up on shore, she's stunned to see he's the fianc she abandoned at the altar two years before. When she'd first met Sir Spencer Thornton, he was far from the man of her dreams. But the Spencer she nurses back to health now is very different from the aloof nobleman who once scorned her. And in his strong embrace, Rose discovers...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380813777
• ISBN13: 9780380813773
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

passionate, emotional read...

this is my first book by Gayle Callen. I loved it. The story, set in Elizabethan England is of arranged marraige gone wrong-and how true love and affection can make it right. I give credit to Ms. Callen's writing-she wrote the hero, at the beginning, as such a jerk that I really couldn't stand him. But as the book progresses you see that the hero and heroine have issues in the background that have caused them to behave this way. I thought the book highly charged-emotionally as well as sensually. There is lots of sexual tension and the love scenes are well written. I don't quite understand the mediocre reviews. I highly recommend this book. 5 stars:)

Good book - looking forward to the sequel!

I enjoyed this book -- It was not quite the in depth story as those by other romantic authors but still I felt the romance between Spencer and Roselyn. I am often facinated by men like Spencer who because of their birth and history often feel inadequate or less worthy and finally when they meet and get to know the right woman they let their guard down and really become all they can be as a loving person. This is what eventually happened between this couple and it was a romantic read for me!! As I said I am looking forward to the next two books in the series.

An exciting Elizabethan romance

In 1556, at a London party on the eve of her wedding, Lady Roselyn Harrington sees her fiance, Sir Spencer Thornton for the first time. She finds Spencer lacking in simple courtesy. Roselyn wonders if that is the fault of his mother's Spanish blood. He really fails in comparison to her father's kind groom Philip Grant, especially when he becomes drunk. Spencer does not want to marry Roselyn, but she leaves him with his hangover at the church steps to elope with the understanding Philip.Three decades later, Roslyn remains disowned by her family and is now an impoverish widow. During a sea battle with the Spanish, an injured Spencer is washed onto the beach near Rosleyn's home. She recognizes her former fiance as he does her. Though he must reach Queen Elizabeth with vital information, Spencer decides to punish Roselyn, but neither one expected love to forge itself on top of a foundation of mistrust.HIS BETROTHED is an exciting Elizabethan romance that stars two lead protagonists struggling between an attraction and their past on the eve of Drake's victory. The story line is fast-paced though it needs a needle in the haystack chance of meeting in that remote location to allow the reader to feel a pivotal point in history. Still, the battle of the sexes and not the war of two great nations, as Roselyn and Spencer humorously squabble with their own feelings and each, other own this tale. Gayle Callen opens this sixteenth century trilogy with a page-turner that never rests for even a paragraph.Harriet Klausner

An exciting Elizabethan romance

In 1556, at a London party on the eve of her wedding, Lady Roselyn Harrington sees her fiance, Sir Spencer Thornton for the first time. She finds Spencer lacking in simple courtesy. Roselyn wonders if that is the fault of his mother's Spanish blood. He really fails in comparison to her father's kind groom Philip Grant, especially when he becomes drunk. Spencer does not want to marry Roselyn, but she leaves him with his hangover at the church steps to elope with the understanding Philip. Three decades later, Roslyn remains disowned by her family and is now an impoverish widow. During a sea battle with the Spanish, an injured Spencer is washed onto the beach near Rosleyn's home. She recognizes her former fiance as he does her. Though he must reach Queen Elizabeth with vital information, Spencer decides to punish Roselyn, but neither one expected love to forge itself on top of a foundation of mistrust. HIS BETROTHED is an exciting Elizabethan romance that stars two lead protagonists struggling between an attraction and their past on the eve of Drake's victory. The story line is fast-paced though it needs a needle in the haystack chance of meeting in that remote location to allow the reader to feel a pivotal point in history. Still, the battle of the sexes and not the war of two great nations, as Roselyn and Spencer humorously squabble with their own feelings and each, other own this tale. Gayle Callen opens this sixteenth century trilogy with a page-turner that never rests for even a paragraph. Harriet Klausner