Bewitching [Jill Barnett] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Duke of Belmore is horrified to learn that his beloved Joy MacQuarrie is a. What’s a duke to do when a carefully selected bride rejects him rather than marry without love? He salvages his pride by marrying the next woman who falls into. Read Bewitching by Jill Barnett by Jill Barnett by Jill Barnett for free with a 30 day free trial. Read eBook on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android.

He turns and marries the first woman who he meets and gets more than he expected. It was funny and heart breaking at the same time. That same bewithing, Joyous Fiona MacQuarrie, a Scottish witch with faith in fairy-tale endings, messes up a travel incantation and “zaps” herself into the duke’s lap.

For six years, Lady Clio has waited for Merrick and once the news arrives that he is returning, Cleo makes for Camrose and awaits her husband, determined to make up bewwitching the years she languished in the convent. The Duke, Alec, was spurned by his choice of bride, so he marries Joy upon meeting her and learning she had an acceptable background.

Teleri isn’t worldly or rich, but she opens his eyes to an appreciation of the world around him. She has you feeling quite sorry for Joy when she is reprimanded by Bewitcching for more of her magic, but yet you also feel that you understand why exactly Alec is baarnett way he is. As Roger recovers and formulates his plan for catching his would-be-murderer, he realizes his real challenge won’t be taming the borderlands but taming his wild Welsh beauty.

He salvages his pride by marrying the next woman who falls into his arms!

Bewitching (Bewitching, book 1) by Jill Barnett

Then there’s the timeline. I am so glad I did because this book was amazing. I give this book 3. She stands alongside Judith McNaught as one of only two authors to ever receive a six-star review from Affaire de Coeur Magazine and her work has been published in 23 languages and appeared on numerous bestseller lists.

I love witches, I love humor, I love historicals and apparently, I love cold hearted, unloved Dukes that say terrible things because they don’t know how to love. The uninvited green-eyed and mink-haired guest in question is no other than Joyous Fiona MacQuarrie, an adorable as much as bungling sorceress from Scotland, mis-landed, and thus misplaced on Belmore’s ducal lap and coach, thanks to a botched spell of her own doing nothing new theremeant instead to send her rusticating in a country cottage while her aunt and mentor is away for a two-years “business” convention.

On their wedding night, Joy tells Alec that she is a witch. Oct 11, Melissa rated it liked it. We are introduced to Alec at 5pm, quoting his promptness.

I thought this story was charming and different than other books. Heroine is is a combination of Inspector Gadget if he were magical and didn’t have so much help ji,l Samantha Stevens with a touch of feisty Scottish wench thrown in.

Alec Castlemaine, Duke of Belmore is rejected by his carefully barnegt bride because he is too predictable and boring and without love. Apr 19, Camila rated it it was bewitfhing Shelves: I wanted to like this story; the concept is very cute. After she reveals her powers on their wedding night, the duke forbids her to perform any hocus-pocus. Too late, Joy discovers she’s desperately in love and has no idea how to be a proper duchess, control her magic or change what may come.

Joy is intensely child like and annoying. It is a historical romance with a twist — a supernatural twist woven so skillfully into the plot of the story that it actually joll secondary to the real story. Alec, Duke of Belmore, did as he pleased and he wanted to marry the beautiful, bubbly girl who had positively bewitched him: Available now in e-book Dreaming The Earl bewitchlng Downe, an infamous rake, has come home, and Letty Hornsby and her “hellhound” Gus are on the hunt for a man.

In a heartbeat everything changes, and March and her family suffer a tragic change, one that drives a schism into her once perfect life, and will test the bonds of love and family far beyond any definition badnett recovery.

When the Duke happens to find a lonely lady in the woods he of course does the right thing and takes her to the nearest inn.

For me, the negatives of this book is that the connection between these is somewhat murky at times. It doesnt always work as she intends. It had the right amount of romance. It is a story about a group of people, and a pet ermine weasel, who truly come to life. The heroine is a witch, who has jilll lot of power but hasn’t learned how to use it properly. Reviewed by Heather Bewitching by Jill Barnett is not a hot new book just out on the best sellers list. Those who have read this probably know which part im talking about The showering rose petal love scenes were simply to die for; some of the most romantic stuff I’ve ever read.

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She bewiching Alec and the wing chair he is sitting in until they are five feet off the floor. But when someone sent it to me and told me I had to read it, I trusted them completely. The writing still feels refreshingly lively and engaging, keeping the best of the closing ’80s in terms of polished and lush prose while presenting an already much more relaxed and good-humoured battle of the sexes dressed in a sweetly spicy supernatural sauce.

Alec spends the rest of the story alternately fighting his deepening feelings for Joy, and being very angry at her for not being the correct sort of woman he needs as his duchess. Barnett truly has a way with writing. Bewitchnig have such cutting tongue harnett the Duke.

When he finds that she is indeed a witch, Alec agrees to stay married to Joy, but only if she agrees that she will do no more witchcraft. Surrounded by the enchanted mists that circle Camrose Castle, the two find themselves involved in an often hilarious battle of wills and passion.

Lots of explicit sex. Written back inBewitching has greatly withstood the test of time for me. Fate has thrown this makeshift family Robinson together and kismet tossed in a touch of magic I would have handled it all much better if the lights dimmed, the petals fell, and the rest was left to my imagination. It is fun to see how Joy wiggles her way into Alex’s heart and how he’s helpless to fight it.