<This is the final novel
in a trilogy.>
She used to dream of being a princess with a happy ending.
Instead, Evangeline Fox has no recent memories. Prince Apollo Acadian says he’s
her husband; she’ll have to take his word for it. So, she’s married to a
handsome prince and lives in a glorious castle in the magical Magnificent
North, but life isn’t happy. She is determined to remember what she’s
forgotten. Apollo is hunting Jacks, but is having no luck catching him. When
Evangeline Fox’s life is endangered once, twice, multiple times (“How is it
that every day someone tries to kill you?” --Jacks), it’s a
too-handsome-to-be-human Jacks who saves her. He tells her to call him Archer.
When she realizes Archer is Jacks, she can’t believe he’s the murderous monster
Apollo says he is (though there really is a vampire). Will things become clear
if she reawakens her memories? Or is she just one rose gold-haired Little Fox
caught between two rakish villains wondering if love is strong enough in a
battle for her happily ever after?
With this
tale, the Once Upon a Broken Heart trilogy closes. It is a sweeping
fantasy, gilded in the glitter of fairy tales, the fog of lost memories, the
heartrending pain of heartbreak and the frothy feeling of love. There are
frills, but there is danger, too. Did I love the trilogy? No, but it
captured my attention overall. I will admit that Evangeline still got on my
nerves, but I steadily ignored that. The story started off slow for me, as I
was over 100 pages in before I felt that the story picked up speed. The
near-ending paints a somewhat ghastly picture in one’s imagination, but
finishes with a romantic flair light as gossamer.
Book One:
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Book Two:
The Ballad of Never After
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