The Heiress by Jude Deveraux

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The Heiress is the seventh book that takes us inside the Montgomery family. 

Book Description

Jamie Montgomery, an impoverished Elizabethan knight, is elated when he is assigned to escort Axia, the Lancaster heiress, to the castle of her betrothed. If only she will fall in love with Jamie 00 as Jamie’s devoted older sister predicts 00 the family’s financial woes will be solved. But Axia, who has spent her life closely guarded by her father’s servants, is not the shy, cossetted flower Jamie expects. She’s a hoyden, hell-bent on enjoying her precious moments of liberty before her marriage to a man chosen by her remote, eccentric father. After curtly informing Jamie not to bother declaring his love for her -- as all poor, handsome men seem wont to do -- Axia makes his life a misery, sneaking off to the marketplace, nearly breaking her neck on a runaway horse, and doing everything possible to delay the trip. Though she dare not admit it, even to herself, Axia dreads being wed to a stranger. Suddenly Jamie realizes that he savors even her most barbed words life the rarest nectar..that he is falling desperately in love with this bold, maddening beauty. Now he must contrive a daring plan to win her freedom -- and win her proud, defiant heart for his own!

About Jude Deveraux

Jude Deveraux is the author of historical and contemporary women's fiction featuring women of strong character and gorgeous, exciting men. Jude has had more than thirty books on the New York Times bestsellers list, 60 million copies in print, and has been translated into 18 languages. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading murder mysteries, working in her garden, and in boxing class, she likes to show much younger males that she can throw a mean right cross.

My Thoughts

The Heiress is the seventh book that takes us inside the Montgomery family. Though this book is listed as the seventh installment it is actually a stand-alone book. The Heiress takes us back to the Montgomery family and introduces us to Janie a descendent of the Montgomery family. 

Jamie is a knight with a family to care for and no money in which to do that. So in true Montgomery fashion, he sets out to earn money to care for his 2 sisters. He takes a job escorting Axia the Lancaster heiress to her future husband. Never realizing that Axia would take him on a journey of adventure, pranks, and danger. 

Axia having been held prisoner in her jeweled castles all her life and told no one could love her as much as her money looks at her journey to her new husband as a chance to experience life just once before being locked up again. She looks at the journey as a way to experience everything she can and to savor every moment. She wants memories to look upon as she lives the rest of her life as a wife in another jeweled prison. What she finds is that not everyone is out for her money and that the people she loves may be stronger than she thought. 

I found this book to be filled with so much fun. The pranks Axia plays on Jamie had me laughing out loud. I also thought it was interesting how Axia wasn't the only one playing a part that the two people she held closest to her were people who gave her what she needed to survive. 

I thought Jamie showed a lot of restraint in not getting back at Axia for her pranks. I could tell he really wanted to protect her and that it wasn't long before he realized who the real heiress was. There were times though I wanted to be like Axia's friend Tode and shake her because I felt she used her money as a crutch and didn't see people for who they truly were. 

Overall, I loved returning to the Montgomery family and enjoyed watching these two characters grow and fall in love. I was also very surprised by the letter at the end from Axia's father. That was a great twist. 

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