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Two damaged hearts learn there's a fine line between love and hate in a Wicked Wallflowers novel from USA Today best-selling author Christi Caldwell.
Gertrude, the eldest Killoran sister, has spent a lifetime being underestimated - especially by her own family. She may seem as vulnerable as a kitten, but given the chance, she can be as fierce as a tiger. Her adopted brother, Stephen, has just been snatched back by his true father, and she'll be damned if she relinquishes the boy to the man reviled throughout London as the Mad Marquess.Â
Still haunted by a deadly tragedy that left him publicly despised, Lord Edwin holds only hatred for the Killorans - the people he believes kidnapped his son. And not one of them will ever see the boy again. But when Gertrude forces her way into the household and stubbornly insists that she remain as Stephen's governess, Edwin believes he may have found someone madder than himself.Â
With every moment he shares with the tenderhearted Gertrude, Edwin's anger softens into admiration...and more. Is it possible that the woman he loathed may be the only person who can heal his broken soul?
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"Finally, the Mad Marquess gets his HEA and I’m absolutely thrilled with Gertrude and Stephen as well. They all had their own growth to manage and issues with which they had to come to terms. I usually have to read this author’s work in increments because it is so intensely emotional and gripping. I love that this one wasn’t that way – I read it straight through. Yes, it was every bit as emotional as the other books, but it was a beautiful emotional rather than the gut-wrenching kind.
In the last book, The Governess, the Mad Marquess was going after Broderick Killoran full tilt. He blamed Broderick for the kidnapping of his son and the deaths of his wife and unborn child seven years ago. To avoid hanging, Broderick and his street-sisters all had to agree to never again see Stephen again 0nce they returned him to the Mad Marquess – they couldn’t even accompany him on the coach ride to the Marquess’ home.
Gertrude Killoran has always been the outsider among her street-siblings – she belonged and was loved equally, but she was also on the outside. She was the weak one who was overlooked while others made decisions for her. She can’t do that anymore – she cannot allow an apprehensive and upset Stephen to make that long and lonely trek from the Devil’s Den to his father’s home. So, at the last minute, she slips into the coach and they begin the stressful ride. Along the way, she talks seriously with Stephen and realizes that she cannot leave him to adjust to his new circumstances alone. She’ll do the impossible! She’ll convince the man who despises everything about her and her siblings to allow her to live in his home until Stephen is settled with a suitable governess.
Edwin Warwick, Marquess of Maddock, isn’t really mad but he has every reason to be! He has suffered unspeakable horrors in his life – his home was burned, his wife and unborn child died, and his son August died as well. Then, he learned that August hadn’t died, he had been kidnapped and taken into the street gang run by Mac Diggory. In that seven years, Edwin had been accused of murder, shunned by the ton, and called a madman. He embraced being a madman, he stopped going out in public, drank prodigiously, and stayed angry all the time while nurturing his hate for the remaining members of Diggory’s gang – the Killorans. Now, there is one of those vile, despicable creatures standing in his foyer – and she’s refusing to leave.
With his son standing there, ready to bolt and run, what can he say to the woman? He drags her into his library so he can rant at her in private – but – imagine that – she doesn’t cower from him or show any fear. She stands up to him and makes reasonable arguments for why he should change his mind and let her stay until Stephen is settled and a suitable governess is hired.
I absolutely loved their journey – and it was a journey of three. Stephen had to grow to trust Edwin in order to be happy in his new home and circumstances. Edwin had to learn to be a father again and to trust that Gertrude was helping him and Stephen adjust to each other. Gertrude had to learn to trust Edwin with Stephen and to trust that he wouldn’t go back on his word and harm Broderick or her sisters.
I am in deep admiration for how the author handled all of this book, but especially the final chapters. Her writing is excellent, the characters are deep and well developed and the romance is truly swoon-worthy! Now, I can’t wait for the next book in the series, The Spitfire, featuring Clara Waters and the Earl of Waterson, coming out in September."
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The Bluestocking Audible Audio Edition Christi Caldwell Tim Campbell Brilliance Audio Books Reviews
- Finally, the Mad Marquess gets his HEA and I’m absolutely thrilled with Gertrude and Stephen as well. They all had their own growth to manage and issues with which they had to come to terms. I usually have to read this author’s work in increments because it is so intensely emotional and gripping. I love that this one wasn’t that way – I read it straight through. Yes, it was every bit as emotional as the other books, but it was a beautiful emotional rather than the gut-wrenching kind.
In the last book, The Governess, the Mad Marquess was going after Broderick Killoran full tilt. He blamed Broderick for the kidnapping of his son and the deaths of his wife and unborn child seven years ago. To avoid hanging, Broderick and his street-sisters all had to agree to never again see Stephen again 0nce they returned him to the Mad Marquess – they couldn’t even accompany him on the coach ride to the Marquess’ home.
Gertrude Killoran has always been the outsider among her street-siblings – she belonged and was loved equally, but she was also on the outside. She was the weak one who was overlooked while others made decisions for her. She can’t do that anymore – she cannot allow an apprehensive and upset Stephen to make that long and lonely trek from the Devil’s Den to his father’s home. So, at the last minute, she slips into the coach and they begin the stressful ride. Along the way, she talks seriously with Stephen and realizes that she cannot leave him to adjust to his new circumstances alone. She’ll do the impossible! She’ll convince the man who despises everything about her and her siblings to allow her to live in his home until Stephen is settled with a suitable governess.
Edwin Warwick, Marquess of Maddock, isn’t really mad but he has every reason to be! He has suffered unspeakable horrors in his life – his home was burned, his wife and unborn child died, and his son August died as well. Then, he learned that August hadn’t died, he had been kidnapped and taken into the street gang run by Mac Diggory. In that seven years, Edwin had been accused of murder, shunned by the ton, and called a madman. He embraced being a madman, he stopped going out in public, drank prodigiously, and stayed angry all the time while nurturing his hate for the remaining members of Diggory’s gang – the Killorans. Now, there is one of those vile, despicable creatures standing in his foyer – and she’s refusing to leave.
With his son standing there, ready to bolt and run, what can he say to the woman? He drags her into his library so he can rant at her in private – but – imagine that – she doesn’t cower from him or show any fear. She stands up to him and makes reasonable arguments for why he should change his mind and let her stay until Stephen is settled and a suitable governess is hired.
I absolutely loved their journey – and it was a journey of three. Stephen had to grow to trust Edwin in order to be happy in his new home and circumstances. Edwin had to learn to be a father again and to trust that Gertrude was helping him and Stephen adjust to each other. Gertrude had to learn to trust Edwin with Stephen and to trust that he wouldn’t go back on his word and harm Broderick or her sisters.
I am in deep admiration for how the author handled all of this book, but especially the final chapters. Her writing is excellent, the characters are deep and well developed and the romance is truly swoon-worthy! Now, I can’t wait for the next book in the series, The Spitfire, featuring Clara Waters and the Earl of Waterson, coming out in September. - Another fantastic read by Christi Caldwell. This is a story of redemption and how easy it is to underestimate the true value of a person. Gertrude is the forgotten Killoran, oh they love her but do not believe she has the skills & strength of her sisters. We find out however that when everyone else believes that all hope is lost she displays fortitude & a will of iron. Edwin is who the Ton has labeled the Mad Marquess, he lost himself in his grief & anger and has forgotten how to live. Now they have come together to help Stephen find his way in his new life. Slowly as they get to know one another they realise that the preconceptions they had were wrong. These two scarred people find friendship and ultimately love. Of course it’s not all plain sailing as you would expect but that is what makes Christi’s stories so enjoyable, no one wants easy. Great love is fought for and won. This whole series has been brilliant and I can’t recommend it enough.
- In this book we finally see why Steven is so hurt and antagonistic even towards those that love him, he finally finds out that his real father,is Edwin, the Marquess which they call the "Mad Marquess". And that his father will have his brother hanged and his sisters lives totally ruined if Broderick doesn't give Steven back.
So when Edwin even says that they can't say a last goodbye at the Marquess's house that they must also give all familiar feelings over for Steven's life from that day forward never to darken his life again. This to the Killorens is so hard they love him so much as he is more their brother than blood ...but the Marquess doesn't care.
Enters, Gertrude she is much more than a sister to Steven a mother in her heart to him, has always let her sisters and Broderick dictate to her what was best for her even though she didn't put much into fighting them she always felt that her disability of being blind in one eye, was why they were so protective of her.
She decides that Steven isn't going alone that she will stay till Steven can get along with his father. She also brings her pets, a cat and a mouse .
When Edwin and Gertrude finally come to terms, in that she stays more terms are brought forward from both sides as they fall in love with each other and Steven has a help in it from hiding Steven's weapons, to special made furniture, to trips to the ice cream store to even skipping stones on the pond in Hyde's Park.
With all this going on you have negative actions coming from a person who was friends with Edwin, and you have grandparents with giving everything to their spoiled daughter to showing so much hatred to Edwin but still wanted to have a relationship with their grandson and this is where Gertrude was helping Edwin prove that he wasn't "mad" that he was scared and that he was so hurt. But that he can be a wonderful father to Steven even though it will be hard.
In this, Christi brought together basically a whole family of mixed relations, different stations of life and even the love between a father and son long in the making together into one big family.
I really enjoyed this book where an insecure man who went gathering stray and non-stray cats to keep a woman he loved and even commissioned a cage for her pet mouse. And a woman that wanted love for so long but felt that no one would want her with a disability, let alone that her father was a thief, killer, and kidnapper. Still gave a man the strength to live for his son, his in-laws, and to be able to leave his house which brought her and his family all together.
