Three Days to Be Ruined: A Victorian Historical Romance by Giovanna Siniscalchi
Tracy’s Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
Series” The Winemakers, #5
Release Date: December 4, 2024
Six years ago, Miss Elizabeth “Beth” Croft was jilted by her fiancé and has had no other offers, but now her father is demanding she wed. Her father is an English gentleman and wine importer living in Portugal and was once the most successful importer in Oporto, but now he is ill and tittering on the edge of bankruptcy. He tells Beth she will have to marry Portugal’s premiere winemaker, Boyd Sandeman and sends her to meet with Boyd and to make an offer to merge their companies through marriage. With no choice, Beth goes to meet with Boyd and is shocked when he demands that she spend the Christmas holiday with him at his estate, where he will subject her to challenges to determine if she will be a suitable wife.
Transplanted Scotsman, Boyd Sandeman is a self-made man, who unbeknownst to Beth has been nurturing a grudge against her father for many years and with her proposal finally has the perfect opportunity to enact his revenge by rejecting and humiliating Beth in front of society. He invites his friends to join them, including Beth’s former fiancé Griffin Maxwell and his wife Julia, who he assumes will help him with his plan. But nothing goes as planned and soon Boyd realizes he has made a huge mistake, but is it too late to make things right, or has he lost his chance for a true HEA?
This was a great story! I am typically not a fan of revenge stories, but this was so well done, that I loved it! Boyd and Beth are wonderful characters, and I wanted them to find happiness together. This story has laugh out loud moments, revenge, meddling friends, steamyish love scenes, and finally a very sweet happy ending complete with an epilogue. Overall, this was a delightful read with a happy ending and a story that I would be happy to recommend. While this is part of a series, it can easily be read as a standalone title with no problems.
*I am voluntarily leaving a review for an eARC that I requested and was provided to me by the publisher/author. All opinions in this review are my own. *
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