The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband

2017 • 304 pages

Ratings29

Average rating3.5

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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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Series

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4 primary books

#2 in Rokesbys

Rokesbys is a 4-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Julia Quinn.

#1
Because of Miss Bridgerton
#2
The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband
#3
The Other Miss Bridgerton
#4
First Comes Scandal

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October 19, 2022

The book began and ended well. I felt like the deception dragged on too long or possibly that it was too frequently fretted over by Cecilia. Edward racing to the ship was sweet, and the introduction to the family as well.

May 24, 2024