The Reckless Union (Wedded Bliss 3) by Monica Murphy-Review Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 16, 2022.
Our marriage may look like a fairytale, but outside forces threaten to tear us apart. Don’t they realize that nothing will keep me apart from Charlotte? Not my family. Not hers either.
What started out as a relationship in name only has evolved into something much more. Something deeper. And when Charlotte is taken from me, I launch into action, determined to rescue her.
She’s mine. Nothing is going to stop me from being with her.
Not a damn thing.
Welcome to the Midnight Dynasty… The warring Morelli and Constantine families have enough bad blood to fill an ocean, and their brand new stories will be told by your favorite dangerous romance authors.
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REVIEWTHE RECKLESS UNION is the third and final instalment in Monica Murphy’s contemporary, new adult ARRANGED MARRIAGE (formerly Wedded Bliss) dark, erotic, romance trilogy, set in the author’s A MILLION KISSES IN YOUR LIFETIME / THINGS I WANTED TO SAY world, and a part of the multi-authored MIDNIGHT DYNASTY series. This is twenty-four year old businessman Perry Constantine, and twenty year old Charlotte Lancaster’s continuing story line. THE RECKLESS UNION should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up immediately after the events and cliff hanger of book two THE RUTHLESS GROOM.
SOME BACKGROUND: In an effort to improve their status in the criminal underworld, the Constantine matriarch Caroline, and her eldest son Winston offer up twenty-four year old Perry Constantine in an arranged marriage to Charlotte Lancaster of the very powerful, very rich and notorious Lancasters. Neither Charlotte nor Perry want anything to do with an arranged marriage but Perry suspects all is not well in Charlotte’s life, and offer his protection to the woman he believes has struggled to be seen and heard in the Lancaster family. Perry’s reputation has preceded his introduction to our story line heroine but Charlotte’s past is mired in secrets and darkness, secrets that are about to threaten Charlotte’s hold on her tenuous security.
WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Perry and Charlotte) THE RECKLESS UNION picks up immediately after the events and cliff hanger of book two in which Charlotte’s past has returned, demanding everything and more, a demand that pushes Charlotte to wonder if she has ever been loved by the people in her life. As Charlotte must face the ghosts from her past, Perry is pushed to the brink in an effort to save the woman with whom he is falling in love.
The relationship between Charlotte and Perry continues to build. Charlotte has struggled with issues of trust, never believing she is good enough or wanted, and in this our heroine will persist in her doubt about the people in her life including the man who has sworn to protect and defend. Perry is well aware that his young bride has been forced to enter into a marriage for the sake of his family but Perry is determined to prove she is worthy of protection and love. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
Once again, we are re-introduced (some by way of mention only) to both Perry and Charlotte’s immediate and extended families, many of whom cross over from the numerous instalments in the interconnected Midnight Dynasty Collection, as well as Winston and Ash Constantine (Stroke of Midnight by K. Webster), Tinsley Constantine, Caroline Constantine; Charlotte’s siblings Grant (The Wrong Brother) and Finn Lancaster, their father Reginald Lancaster; the Lancaster family butler Jasper and the return of Seamus McTiernan.
THE RECKLESS UNION is a story of betrayal and vengeance, power and control, obsession and madness, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The premise is heart breaking, emotional and inviting; the romance is seductive and intense; the characters are struggling, colorful and charismatic.
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
The Reluctant Bride
The Ruthless Groom
Copy supplied for review
Reviewed by Sandy
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Monica Murphy is the New York Times, USA Today and #1 international bestselling author of the One Week Girlfriend series, the Billionaire Bachelors and The Rules series. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and has sold over one million copies worldwide. She is both self-published and published by Random House/Bantam and Harper Collins/Avon. She writes new adult, young adult and contemporary romance.
She is a wife and a mother of three who lives in central California on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere along with their one dog and too many cats. A self-confessed workaholic, when she’s not writing, she’s reading or hanging out with her husband and kids. She’s a firm believer in happy endings, though she will admit to putting her characters through angst-filled moments before they finally get that hard won HEA.
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