Fil Reid

Broschiertes Buch

A Sham Engagement

A Regency Historical Romance

Beschreibung

She has vowed never to marry-but will the handsome viscount who compromises her change her mind? Having been forced to help bring up her younger siblings, Miss Elenora Wetherby knows one thing: she does not want to get married and have children of her own. Her mama, though, has other ideas. She insists on presenting her oldest daughter in society to secure a rich husband who will support the nearly bankrupt estate and preserve her older brother's inheritance. However, Elenora is not like either her younger sisters or the other debutantes. In a time before autism was understood, she's very much "on the spectrum" and has no idea why she doesn't feel things the way others do. Jack Deveril, Viscount Broxbourne, is nearing his fortieth year, and has so far successfully evaded predatory mamas' attempts to ensnare him for one of their daughters. He lives a charmed life with a small but productive estate in Wiltshire, his latest mistress in a London town house, and a clique of like-minded friends. His life is perfect. But Jack has a secret. Living in his own house in London is the child of the actress he once loved, who was already married to a scoundrel who'd abandoned her. She died giving life to Jack's son, little Edward, and Jack has sworn to bring him up with every advantage his mother never had. When Jack and Elenora find themselves in a compromising position at a ball, their parents demand that he make an honest woman of her. Which neither of them want. But the mismatched lovers secretly agree to a sham engagement, planning to see out the season then quietly go their own ways-until Edward is kidnapped by his late mother's ne'er-do-well husband. Then, Elenora and Jack are thrown together in a desperate search through the backstreets of London for the child, far from the gilded world of the ton. The Mismatched Lovers Book 1: A Sham Engagement Book 2: A Hint of Scandal Book 3: A Duchess of Mystery

Autor

Fil Reid lives four miles from the sea in Cornwall with her husband and a rescue dog from Romania called Bella. Her books have been published by Dragonblade in the US since she won their Write Stuff competition. Her first six books comprise the Guinevere series - an innovative retelling of the Arthurian legend from the point of view of a modern origin Guinevere. Her short stories have been shortlisted in several competitions and won a few prizes. She has a new series set in Cornwall coming out this year, starting with The Cornish Mermaid.Apart from writing, the great love of her life has always been horses, and when she was younger she worked with them for a number of years - on the stud attached to Highclere Castle (where Downton Abbey was filmed), as a stable girl in a flat racing yard (when she was young, brave and thin), and in a riding school. She also ran her own riding school when her children were small.She speaks fluent French after having lived there for ten years, after which she lived on a widebeam canal boat before her move to Cornwall. One of the things she loves to do is to visit the sites she uses in her stories. However, she has acrophobia, a morbid fear of heights, so one or two places are out of reach to her. Too scary!She's been fascinated by all things Arthurian since she was a small child and saw the Disney film The Sword in the Stone, but didn't find out until she was an adult that she has Asperger's Syndrome (as do two of her sons). She now believes her ASD accounts for her obsessions with both horses and King Arthur.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9781965539804
• ISBN-10: 1965539807
• Artikelnr.: 73193973