Chasing the Bride. is a delightful and fun historical take on the runaway bride trope! Looking for a week of freedom before being tied down in an unwanted marriage, the heroine finds herself being tracked down by the hero, who is an employee of her fiancee. This dynamic gives this romance a gentle touch of the forbidden which heightens the chemistry and banter to a fun and quippy level. Erica Ridley creates this romance in a fast paced and engaging story that has a lightness to it making it easy to fall in love with. Ridley is a historical romance author that has a wonderful grasp on the genre. Her works are fun and clear. Her characters are dimensional and her stories have a comforting feel that make them really easy to quickly read. Chasing the Bride is the sixth installment in her Lords in Love series, which are each delightful in their own ways and all very easy to be read in whatever order you wish, so find a troupe you love and fall into this world!

Things I liked:
The time spent when our characters were falling in love was soooo romantic.
Boy falls first


Things I wish were better:
Not sure. The story was just overall meh. Maybe my expectations are just too high cause I adore Erica Ridley's work

3.5/5 stars

Ridley does it again. A fun, steamy, historical romance that leaves you wanting more. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next.

Ridley’s characters are truly evil and the hero lovable. I especially enjoyed that Hudson was both smarter and richer than his employer.
I wanted Tabitha to be stronger against her father, but at least she was daring enough to be a runaway bride from the most awful fiancée I can imagine.
The Mr. . and Mrs. Snowfeather week was so romantic!

Erica does a great job at taking Romantic tropes and breathing fresh and exciting life into them. A runaway bride gets pursued by the grooms go to fix it guy and a wild chase and unexpected romance begins. Erica does a great job getting us into the heads of both of the characters as well as giving us some heart stopping romance.

Thanks to Netgalley and WebMotion for the ARC of this!

This had some of my favorite tropes and the characters were super fun! I was so annoyed at her Dad for betrothing her to an adult man when she was just a baby (ew). The story was cute and quick, with a little bit of steam.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for this arc. This was a quick, entertaining book. The characters were great.

Another Classic Erica Ridley book. With as much skipping as I do, the books are quick reads for me. Somehow I keep reading them though.

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

A very quick read - predictable, but sweet and charming. I enjoyed it, especially a fan of the marshmallow interior MMC.

This was a short sweet read if a tad predictable. I think I'm getting burnout with historical romance. there is a lack of new ideas and even my favourite authors like Ms Ridley are starting to lose my interest. There was nothing wrong with this book and its a quick read so holds your attention but there is nothing exciting about it.
I received an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review

Tabitha's father is dying and his dying wish is for her to marry his old friend and heal a long family fued between the families, tabitha is not ready to marry a man three times her age, but with her fathers health declining she feels she has no choice.

Hudson is the Duke of Oakfield's man of business and is aware that the Duke is only interested in Tabithas dowry to clear his gambling debts and is also aware the the family fued is no longer in place.

When Tabitha abscond from the wedding she runs away to Marrywell, the festival might be over but she could think of nowhere also to go.

Hudson is sent to find her and bring her back to be married but Tabitha convinces him to allow her one more week of freedom before consigning her to her fate.

The only problem is the more time he spends with her the more he wants to keep him for himself.

As the mutual attraction grows they both know they only have a week but what happens when the both want forever.

A really good book, as I have come to expect from the author, story clipped on at a pace and I was sorry when it ended.

Just a good one.
Read it in one sitting. Four stars read.
I deeply enjoyed it.
Thanks to netgalley for this book

Really enjoyed this exciting and engaging romantic adventure. Highly entertaining, fun filled, emotional journey filled with witty banter, heart racing twists and so many fun and intriguing charters.

Ooh this was a fun read! You can't help but empathize with Tabitha, betrothed as a infant to a terrible old man but afraid of going against her family duty. And then you have Hudson, who has the employer-employee loyalty for that same old man, but can't bear the thought of seeing Tabitha's spirit crushed in such a marriage. Of course they're a batter match for each themselves, but how to make it work? This was a fun read with the right amount of tension, hijinks, romance and drama. I enjoyed it.

Erica Ridley is my favorite comfort romance reader. For the most part I can enjoy a simple, lovely, happy story without much trauma or complication. Chasing the Bridge is a fluffy romance with a little darkness at its heart: Lady Tabitha Kerr's father promised her to a much older man before she was born as a way to mend a rift between two families. But Lady Tabitha's intended is a real creep who will absolutely exploit and abuse her if the marriage comes to pass. Thankfully his man of business, Hudson, has a soft spot for Lady Tabitha and is sent to retrieve the runaway bride. There is no on-page violence, but there's a foreboding vibe that might not be for everyone.

Kept wondering until the end! Page turner! Lady Tabitha Kerr has been betrothed to the Viscount Oldfield since she was born. Her father promised his daughter in exchange for saving his life during the war.Oldfield has a servant, Hudson Frampton who is his longtime right hand man, businessman, fixer, and attack dog. So when Lady Tabitha leaves the Viscount jilted at the alter, Hudson is tasked with finding her and bringing her back same time and place in one week. Things go nothing as Frampton had planned. It is up to you to see how it turns out. Thanks to the following for giving me an early copy. Opinions are my own honest opinions..
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Publication Date: June 9, 2023

My thanks to the Publishers via NetGalley for a copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

This was an engaging read, telling the story of Lady Tabitha Kerr who had been promised at birth by her father to try and ease tension between their family and the family of Viscount Oldfield. Sadly, Viscount Oldfield and his reputation go before him and are not quite the sort of man that she would like to marry.

As Lady Tabitha comes to terms with what she has to face up to in order to please her father who is not in the best of health, she decides that she can't go through with it and jilts the Viscount at the altar.

As the Viscount is keen to find her, step in one of his employees Mr Hudson Frampton. However, things don't go to plan and it's not long before things take a turn between Tabitha and Hudson that were most certainly not supposed to happen.

What will they do as they both realise that things between them are not what should be happening?

It was a quick read, that kept me reading when I should have been doing other things as I wanted to find out what was going to happen to them all.

Already number six in the Lords in Love series. This time the story doesn’t take place during the annual Merriwell fair, but mostly after the event.

Lady Tabitha has been ‘given’ as a bethroted to one of her father’s fiends as a gift to end the feud between the families. But marrying a man, who is older than your father isn’t exactly the love match Tabitha would have wanted. But, being the dutiful daughter, she agrees to speed up the wedding, since her father is ill. However, when arriving at the altar, she gets cold feet and she flees the scene.

Only to be caught in the town of Merriwell by her fiance’s watchdog. The ever Stoic Hudson. Hudson has been pining for his employers bethroted. As his man of business, Hudson is very aware of Viscount Oldfield’s indiscretions. So, when he is tasked with retrieving Tabitha before the (next) marriage date, he agrees to let her enjoy her last days of freedom in Merriwell.

Of course they end up falling in love, because Erica always has stories with happy endings. In all a very warm, cute and coy story. Four out of five stars from me and a special thank you to Netgalley for providing the arc.

Tabitha and Hudson's story was absolutely lovely. Watching them grow close--first at the Marrywell festival, and then after Tabitha takes a runner at Viscount Oldfield's first attempt to marry her--was just delightful. She starts out resenting him for the job he has, but he's always had a bit of a crush on her...and of course, given how close he is to the viscount, he knows exactly how much the old lecher *doesn't* deserve her. But she's made her dying father a promise, and he has a job to do...

I really liked that even though Tabitha and Hudson clearly had amazing chemistry (and might have accidentally acted on it--oops!--because there was only one bed) they both had a great deal of respect for each other's position and the problems they would encounter if they simply acted on their feelings. Ms Ridley lets us all just begin to flirt with the idea of real angst before delivering the HEA--so deserved, and oh so lovely!

As with the other books in the series, Chasing the Bride absolutely works as a standalone, but if you have read any of the other books, you will recognize some familiar faces and places.

Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.

Lady Tabitha is the perfect heroine and I was cheering for her on every page. It was so fun following her story. I can't wait for Erica Ridley's next story.