Reader ↠ A Ghost of a Chance ↠ Haunting Hearts Ý Casey claybourne

Reader A Ghost of a Chance

Reader ↠ A Ghost of a Chance ↠ Haunting Hearts Ý Casey claybourne Ý When she was alive Isadora Harkwell did everything she could to stop the arranged marriage between her daughter Daphne and the notorious Maruess Lindley to no avail Now she's caught in the afterlife and paying dearly for heWhen she was alive Isadora Harkwell did everything she could to stop the arranged marriage between her daughter Daphne and Foolishly naïve the heroine made the mistake of believing that the hero could have married her for love She may not be beautiful but what else would interest a man like him? Then she is devastated when the morning after their wedding he leaves her without word after secretly arguing with her mother Now a few months later she is alone and still hurt by his betrayal even though she tries to convince herself otherwise The hero married the heroine for Ash Park the estate her grandfather stole from his grandfather all those years ago Between their families is years of bitterness and betrayal and the hero promised his father on his death bed to someone own Ash Park again and the hero found that means via the heroine But the day after the wedding the heroine's mother be in for pride revenge or for noble motives she vows that he'll never truly own the estate after he's used her daughter in such a manner Now unbeknownst to him he's being haunted by his stepmother who's been sent back to right past wrongs She interferes with his life and is the spark that sees her daughter storm Ash Park demanding an annulment The hero is stunned by her arrival especially when another woman has taken residence in his house again his will And when she demands a void of their marriage the panic of losing his estate makes him act He vows to court his wife to make her love him Even though he doesn't believe in love and certainly has no delusions of being capable of such emotion his little wife does and that's all that matters He is cunning and tricky He uses her kindness and gentle soul to his own gain and when he finds himself feelings strange tenderness towards her he brushes it off Eventually he wears her down It's in her nature to forgive and her feelings toward her cold and unfeeling husband make it hard for her to resist his charms But after they consummate their marriage she is crushed to find him in his mistress bedchamber She flees and vows never to give in to him again The hero was led astray by his unknown ghost who pranked him into going to the countesses chambers that night but it was his pride that kept him from going after his wife His stubbornness knew no bounds He refused to beg for forgiveness when he didn't cheat and he refused to admit to himself that when he hears of his wife's popularity in London he travels to her in jealousy rather than his reputation He was a cold character and even though some of the story was written via his perspective I could never really be sure of his true motives But this fit because he did spend the book lying to himself and denying any notion of loving his wife In fact he only realized his love truly realized it when the heroine was on her death bed at the end after being shot The rest of the time he was an anti hero I'd say because he used the heroine's gentleness against her He played her and lied to her through the book with very little in the way of guilt I struggled to like him as a person as a result regardless of the good deeds he's done I also struggled to understand the heroine on a woman to woman level She was just too easily persuaded to surrender her dignity and happiness just because her husband was a charmer when he wanted something She was just too sweet and forgiving As far as plot goes I thought it was a bit staggered There was the main characters story about forgiveness and old grudges and then their was the villains search of treasure The two didn't really mesh together well and I was a bit confused by the end Regardless I enjoyed the story as a whole