Tempting Torment (The McClellans Series, Book 3): Author's Cut Edition

One of the things I liked about this book was that it is long. It gave me as a reader the chance to get to know the characters more in depth rather than just a surface knowledge of them. I couldn't put the book down because I wanted to find out what happened in the end. We first meet Jessa Winter when she is a nanny. We see down the road what exactly happens to her in that position. She meets Noah McClellan on a stage coach where he gets injured. When she thinks he is dying she ends up marrying him so that she can escape her past as his widow and get out of the country. Most of the story we get to learn more of both of the characters. Noah McClellan is there from America to take care of some business for his family. He thinks it is going to be a quick easy trip but it turns out to be nothing like what he expected to happen. Jessa Winter is smart and quick thinking except where Noah McClellan is concerned. And the same goes for him about Jessa. Noah is otherwise and easy going guy from what we are told, that his family considers him the level headed one of the bunch. That is why it is interesting to see him unnerved by Jessa on their trip across the Ocean. Both Jessa and Noah seemed like real people with faults rather than the stereotypical perfect romance novel people. I liked that. Sometimes both characters seemed a little crazy but that tends to be life. There was a villain or two. The McClellan family is a great group of characters. I have not read the other books in this series. I will now have to go find them because I liked this one. I did manage to keep up with this book as a stand alone fine. I received this book for free from ebook discovery. I voluntarily review this book. This is my honest review.

Noah is the calm, peace loving brother with an inconvenient tendency towards seasickness. It is therefore almost cruel that his family voted him as the most suitable candidate to undertake an inspection of his in-laws' properties in England. Next to seasickness, Noah also dislikes rocking carriages, but on this particular journey he is distracted by Jessa and her son Gideon, a journey that results in him almost losing his life and culminates in a marriage that he can't really remember. It galls Noah to realise that he was coerced into marriage, even if his wife is very much to his liking. When he decides to take his new wife with him back to America, his reasons aren't immediately clear, even to himself. However he does realise that Jessa has an urgent need to remove herself and her baby from England and that she is in danger. For the most part Noah acted out of character, however he has never been in a situation such as this before and he's not exactly sure what he is dealing with. In the process he hurts Jessa, but without the facts he finds himself on a slippery slope. When Noah gets his new bride and son home, truths are revealed and he has to review his stance. There were a number of gaps in this story but they were dealt with in ensuing explanations which kept the reader in the loop. The story is well written with adventure and intrigue and a number of characters from previous books in this series were reintroduced to the reader. Despite being part of a series, this book can be read as a stand alone and does come to a satisfactory ending. I received this book for free from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily post this review. This is my honest review.