Search - The Heiress Bride (Bride Trilogy)

In this book, Sinjun, the youngest of the Sherbrooke children is looking for a husband.
Joan Sherbrooke...Sinjun, all of 19, is on the verge of spinsterhood, or so her mother fears. At London ball she sees the very handsome Colin Kinross, the Scottish earl of Ashburnham. She becomes totally
besotted with him,even though she has never met him. When Sinjun overhears Colin complain that since he must find himself a wealthy bride in order to survive, she promptly introduces herself as the heiress she is. Sinjun is bewitched by Colin, utterly fascinated but she never loses her wits. She arranges an elopement, only to be met in Edinburgh by her two favorite brothers, who are hell bent on preventing thie marriage. But despite all objections, she and Colin are wed. She remains besotted with her new husband even after the pair arrive in Vere Castle on Loch Leven and she learns of his first wife's mysterious death and meets his children from that marriage, two little tykes who would just as soon see her in Jericho. There is a man to master, laughter, mystery, danger, strange and odd relative and a beautiful castle in Scotland, all dished up for Sinjun.

From the dust jacket: "The thrilling conclusion to the best-selling romantic 'Bride' trilogy...In this, the final volume of the trilogy, Joan Winthrop Sherbrooke--Sinjun--is on the verge of spinsterhood, or so her mother fears, when at the ripe age of nineteen she spies Colin Kinross, the Scottish earl of Ashburnham, across the dance floor at a London ball. When Sinjun overhears Colin complain that since he must find himself a wealthy bride in order to survive, is it too much to ask that she be blessed with all her teeth, she promptly introduces herself as the toothsome heiress she is. Sinjun is bewitched by Colin, utterly fascinated, but she never loses her wits. She arranges an elopement, only to be met in Edinburgh by her two favorite brothers, who are hell-bent on preventing the marriage. But despite all objections, she and Colin are wed. She remains besotted with her new husband even after the pair arrive at Vere Castle on Loch Leven and she learns of his first wife's mysterious death and meets his children from that marriage, two little tykes who would just as soon see her in Jerico."

This byzantine conclusion to Coulter's Bride trilogy ( The Sherbrooke Bride ; The Hellion Bride ), set in 1807 Scotland and loaded with sex, splinters under the burden of its foolish and two-dimensional characters. Colin Kinross, seventh earl of Ashburnham, faces daunting problems: his castle is decaying, villainous clansmen are usurping his land and unmanageable debts keep mounting. But Joan "Sinjin" Sherbrooke, at 19 one of England's wealthiest women, has fallen in love with him and proposes a financially rewarding marriage. In order to escape Sinjin's two protective brothers, they elope to Colin's Scottish castle. There Colin presents Joan with two surly stepchildren and a pair of malicious sisters-in-law--it seems he has kept a previous marriage secret. Complications abound. An anonymous letter writer accuses Colin of throwing his first wife off a cliff--are murderous kinsmen seeking vengeance? Even ghosts are pressed to intervene at crucial moments as th e disjointed plot veers out of control.