Publication: 6th February 2024 – Headline Eternal
They have the best of intentions…and the worst luck in love.
West, the Marquess of Weston, and Sophie, Lady Fitzwilliam Bridewell, have lately been spending a considerable amount of time together. But West and Sophie are not new acquaintances.
In fact, years ago, they were almost engaged, until West’s almost fatal curricle accident and his meddling father threw them off course.
Now, having recently lost her husband, Sophie has put aside all thoughts of romance. But when her widowed sister, Alexandra, mentions a fondness for an earl, Sophie realises she may be holding her sister back. Alexandra won’t move forward until Sophie, too, settles down again, and so Sophie approaches West with a plan. They will announce their engagement and break things off once Alexandra is happily married.
It’ll be simple. After all, it’s not like she is going to fall for West a second time, not when Sophie has sworn not to risk her heart again.
To Woo and to Wed is the fifth book in The Regency Vows series by Martha Waters. Even though each novel can easily be read as a stand alone, I highly recommend reading all of them because they are fun, entertaining, and full of romance.
The protagonists of To Woo and to Wed are West and Sophie and, having already got a few glimpses of their story in the previous books, I was really looking forward to it and I wasn’t disappointed.
Their story began seven years earlier when they first met, fell in love, and planned to marry. However, an interfering father and an awful accident left him with a limp and guilt over the death of his best friend and her married to someone else. Now, Sophie has been widowed for four years – and enjoying the freedom that comes with it – while he is under pressure from his father to marry and produce an heir. When Sophie needs to convince her sister that she is happy and ready for love again, she turns to West with a proposal for a fake engagement. As they spend more and more time together, old feelings resurface, risking turning their fake relationship very real.
I have been a huge fan of this series since the first book, To Have and to Hoax, came out and, up until now, To Marry and to Meddle, has been my favourite book and Emily and Julian my favourite couple, but, after reading To Woo and to Wed in a day, West and Sophie have become my new favourite couple. I was completely immersed in their story full of love, but also regrets and guilt. With a fake engagement that includes vegetable nicknames and a ridiculous double wedding, they have a second chance to love.
I am sorry to have reached the end of this series because I fell in love with all its protagonists and I enjoyed how each story developed, but I am really looking forward to reading whatever the author is writing next!
A huge thank you to Headline Eternal and NetGalley for providing me with a proof of this fantastic novel.
Martha Waters was born and raised in sunny South Florida, where she spent her childhood reading lots of British children’s books and scribbling away in notebooks. She studied history and international studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also earned a master’s degree in library science.
She is the author of the Regency Vows series, which includes To Have and to Hoax, To Love and to Loathe, To Marry and to Meddle, To Swoon and to Spar, and To Woo and to Wed (coming in February 2024); her books have received multiple starred reviews, and have been featured in Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Woman’s World, Buzzfeed, PopSugar, The TODAY Show, and more.
She recently moved from snowy Maine to rainy England, and loves sundresses, gin cocktails, and traveling.
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