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The Thief's Countess (Border Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Cecelia Mecca (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A thief turned reluctant protector. A countess who resents but can't resist him.

Sir Geoffrey has dedicated his life to exacting revenge on the men who killed his parents and stole his birthright. The son of a baron, he has been reduced to stealing the resources he needs to reclaim his family legacy. Just when he’s on the verge of success, his uncle asks him to help protect a wealthy countess. It’s a distraction Geoffrey resents, even more so when he meets Lady Sara. The gorgeous, complicated and alluring lady is everything he’d want in a woman—and everything he can’t have.

With her betrothed coming to claim her hand in marriage and a distant cousin intent on usurping her earldom, Lady Sara Caiser feels beset by controlling men. As if that weren’t enough, her father’s deathbed request was for two lawless border reivers to serve as her protectors. Despite her misgivings, an undeniable attraction pulls her into Sir Geoffrey’s arms. The man she thought nothing more than a thief is more dangerous than she believed, for he’s noble, caring and sinfully attractive. As the threats against her continue to mount, Sara must decide what’s more important—her duty or her heart.

If you enjoy family sagas, enemies to lovers romance and bad-boy medieval heroes, transport yourself to the 13th century border of England and Scotland with The Thief's Countess.
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This book is amazing. The story is wonderfully woven into a riveting tale of highland love. This book is a keeper, to be read again and again.

Cecelia Mecca is a kick arse author. I love this series. When a new book comes out it is like revisiting old friends that you haven't seen for a while.

For those out there who have not yet read a Mecca book, you cannot go wrong.

Cecelia Mecca has again written an amazing story that will pull you in with her wonderful prose and vivid descriptions.

The scenes are painted vividly, making you feel you're there. It's an emotional, romantic book that captured and held me from start to finish.

This story is emotional and devours you as you read it, tearing yourself from the book is not an option.
In my opinion, in a relatively short time, she has become an exceptional author on the scale of Kathryn Le Veque.

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The Border Series - Ongoing 1. The Ward's Bride (FREE)- CeceliaMecca.com 2. The Thief's Countess 3. The Lord's Bride 4. The Chief's Maiden 5. The Earl's Entanglement 6. The Warrior's Queen 7. The Protector's Promise 8. The Rogue's Redemption 9. The Guardian's Favor (Dec. 2018)
Bloodwite - PNR - Coming in 2019 1. The Healer's Curse (FREE)- CeceliaMecca.com 2. The Vampire's Temptation- 1.24.19 3. Bloodwite Book Two- 2.7.19
Enchanted Falls- Time Travel Falling for the Knight

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06XC652MY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Altiora Press (February 27, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 27, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3857 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,731 ratings

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Cecelia Mecca is the bestselling author of steamy historical romance and also writes contemporary romance as Bella Michaels. Armed with a Ph.D. and lots of chai, she spends her days weaving tales which whisk readers to another time and place.

With over twenty-five published historical romance novels which take readers to an admittedly romanticized time of knights and castles and to small towns in her contemporary and paranormal series, Cecelia is always thinking up new ways to tame both medieval and contemporary and bad boys.

Our Highlander-loving author, who is firmly House Stark and Gryffindor, can be found in Northeast, Pennsylvania with her husband and two tweens.

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BROTHERHOOD OF THE BORDER

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Kissed by the Knight

A Noble Betrayal

A Clan of Her Own

Son of a Rogue

BORDER SERIES

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The Ward's Bride

The Thief's Countess

The Lord's Captive

The Chief's Maiden

The Scot's Secret

The Earl's Entanglement

The Warrior's Queen

The Protector's Promise

The Rogue's Redemption

The Guardian's Protector

The Knight's Reward

ORDER OF THE BROKEN BLADE

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The Blacksmith

The Mercenary

The Scot

The Earl

The Chief

KINGDOMS OF MERIA

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The King's Commander

My Highland Bride

Taken by the Elderman

Her Voyager King

TIME TRAVEL

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Falling for the Knight

Sexy Scot

Scandalous Scot

BOYS OF BRIDGEWATER

Bella Michaels

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Overruled by Love

Last Call

Billion Dollar Date

My Foolish Heart

BLOODWITE

C.L. Mecca

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The Healer's Curse

The Vampire's Temptation

The Immortal's Salvation

The Hunter's Affection

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Space Cowgirl
5.0 out of 5 stars The Landless Earl🐺🔪 Finds His Home🏰
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2018
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NorthUmbria England 1270
Alpha Male🐺🍆🌋🔪 Adult Romance

Sir Geoffrey Waryn🐺🍆🌋🔪 is an Earl, The Earl of Bristol, but he's a man with no home, because Bristol🏰 was taken from him by Scots and his family displaced five years ago. Now he and his Uncle, Sir Hugh Waryn🐺🔪 are cattle thieves, just to keep their family alive.

A summons to Kenshire castle🏰 to aid Sara Caiser💃💋, the young countess, deters them from their goal of reclaiming their lands, but the Two knights are needed there for her protection. Her father, the Earl has died, and he was a friend of Sir Hugh🐺🔪.

Hugh🐺🔪 knows they need to get to Kenshire🏰 to help Lady Sara💃💋 secure her claim. Women cannot hold property and titles, so she Will have to marry👰 to keep the castle🏰. She is betrothed to Earl Archbald, Lord Lyonsford, but she doesn't want to marry👰, and he's out of the country on Crusade.

Sir Randolf Fitzwarren👹🔪, a traitorous power hungry usurper and distant cousin to Sara💃💋, is bringing an army to take Kenshire🏰 and force Lady Sara💃💋 to marry👰 him.

Sara💃💋 almost swoons when she meets Geoffrey🐺🍆🌋🔪, her new protector!. He is dark haired, extremely handsome, very tall, and heavily muscled. He is taken with her instantly, and loses no time in flirting with her as soon as they meet.
A 🐦bird in the hand......

Liked the book📑! The historical research the author did was phenomenal! The story is well crafted, and although there is the requisite angst between Sara💃💋 and Geoffrey🐺🍆🌋🔪, there is a happy ending!
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Joyce Hiebert
4.0 out of 5 stars So much longing!
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2022
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So much longing!
Geoffrey Waryn arrives at the Lady Sara Caiser’s holding to protect her until her betrothed arrives home from the crusades. Geoffrey knows he’s in trouble from the first moment he sees Sara, for she is a countess, and he is a thief without a home. Nothing stands in the way of true love, of course, there are plenty of longing looks and enough furtive kisses to set the tapestries on fire!
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Rabbit
5.0 out of 5 stars An impossible love story with a happy ever after.
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2017
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Sir Geoffrey, a deposed Baron who lost his land and title to thieves, and is fighting to regain it. Lady Sara, a Countess who has lost her father and needs protection while waiting for the Lord her father has betrothed her too in order to keep her lands and all their holdings safe. Geoffrey doesn't want to take the time away from his fight to protect her, and Sara doesn't want a Reiver in her home protecting her, but her father had asked his long time friend and Geoffrey's uncle to do just that. So Geoffrey and Sara are forced to abide the wishes of her deceased father and his uncle, but when they meet the attraction is more than either of them can deny. This is a must read if you love impossible love stories with happy ever after endings. Cecelia Mecca is wonderful writer. Her characters are well rounded and plot is well thought out with beautiful descriptions.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing happens
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2020
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I've sat on my feelings for this for a while. I enjoyed the prequel to this story, it was well-developed despite being short, which is a complete contrast to this one. Thief's Countess drags on and on and on. That's all I remember really about it, and the main female lead had so much potential to be badass and while she was independent i felt like she mostly just reacted to things around her. Add in allll the romance tropes you could expect and the story kinda got bogged down by so much being thrown at it and yet it still managed to drag on. The hero was likable too, but it was just really hard to get into the story despite everything going.

Overall, 3 stars for the solid writing and development of the story. I just had a hard time connecting to it.
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ConLee
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2023
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What a great story, I loved reading it. It was very entertaining and hard to put down.
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Sleepless in San Diego
4.0 out of 5 stars A compelling medievil romantic suspense novel
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2018
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A well told story of a Contessa and a former Lord who discover love in a forbidden relationship! Brought in as the Contessa Sara's protector, Geoffrey and his Uncle Hugh answer the call from her dying father the Lord of Kenshire! As Sara's bodyguard, Geoffrey is always in close proximity to the Countessa
The threat to Lady Sara is vague and anticlimatic, but the chemistry between Geoffrey and Sara is sizzling! Their true love is blocked by the duty of Sara to marry a noble with wealth and power to honor her father's dying request!
A fun, easy reading and sexy book 1 in the Boder Series by Cecilia Mecca. This book is a worthy tale of medievil times!
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Crystal L.Butler
5.0 out of 5 stars A great story
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2023
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Geoffrey and his Uncle Hugh were Reiner’s but not by choice. Geoffrey’s family home Bristol was taken by the Scot’s and his parents killed. His 2 brothers and sister went to stay with his mother’s sister and husband. Hugh received word that Sara’s father had died and he requested him and Geoffrey come to protect his daughter until her betrothed arrived.

Sara the daughter of Lord Kenshire was betrothed to Lord Lyonsford. When her father dies she waits for the Lord to come and be married . The threat of Randolph the only other living relative who wanted to marry her and take over the castle before Lord Lyonsford could arrive. The question is who does she marry.
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JimW
5.0 out of 5 stars Alright
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2023
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The story kept me entertained. It also had quite a few twists to it. It seemed as if it was ending just after the half way point. But surprise surprise it had an impossible ending.
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Diane
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book.
Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2022
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Awesome book. Couldn't put it down. Can't wait to read the next story about this family in the days to come.
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Andreea
5.0 out of 5 stars Good story, well written
Reviewed in Germany on September 3, 2018
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Loved the book and fell in love with the characters. I hardly wait to discover the other stories of the rest of the family .
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Tess Canham
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2017
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Wow, loved this book.
The by play between Geoffrey and Sara was wonderful.
It definitely played on my emotions and I'm not afraid to say that I cried at some part.
I had read the prequel 'The Wards Bride' and enjoyed it and it was interesting to find out what happened to Hugh.

I was given an ARC of this book but I enjoyed it so much I purchased a copy to keep for myself.
All opinions are honest and my own.
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Annette
5.0 out of 5 stars Medieval Romance with a Twist!
Reviewed in Australia on March 17, 2018
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This is the first full length book in a great new Medieval series. The historical detail is incredible and her strong characters are realistic of this time period. Gregory and Sara are star-crossed lovers, who by duty cannot continue their chosen path. Fast paced action kept my interest all the way through the book. I enjoyed the twist at the end of the book. This is a terrific addition to the series.
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Sharon Lee Thomas
4.0 out of 5 stars The Lady and the Reiver
Reviewed in Canada on November 18, 2017
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A slow beginning erupts into a struggle between classes and a decent historical romance. Lady Sara and Sir Gregory are both strong minded people who share a desire to have their lands and each other. Lady Sara is to marry another who takes an unsatisfactorily explained and excruciatingly long time to arrive to "her rescue" to hold her lands and it falls on Sir Gregory and his uncle to protect her from an unscrupulous distant cousin. Some parts of the story are weak but overall it was a good read.
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