One Final Season

Alstones #3

by Elizabeth Beacon

Three years ago, Kate rejected Edmund, Lord Shuttleworth's impassioned marriage proposal in no uncertain terms. Now he's back, and it's Kate's final season. She needs a straightforward, paper-only marriage, yet her feelings for Edmund are anything but straightforward!Shocked by Edmund's reappearance at a lavish house party, Kate flees to the private study to compose herself. But her self-control doesn't last for long…. Caught in a compromising situation, the man she can't possibly marry is suddenly announcing their betrothal to the ton!

Genres: Romance, Historical, Historical Romance, Fiction, Harlequin, Harlequin Historical, Ebooks

283 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 3, 1980

About the author

ELIZABETH BEACON lives in the beautiful English West Country, and is finally putting her insatiable curiosity about the past to good use. Over the years Elizabeth has worked in her family’s horticultural business, become a mature student, qualified as an English teacher, worked as a secretary and, briefly, tried to be a civil servant. She is now happily ensconced behind her computer, when not trying to exhaust her bouncy rescue dog with as many walks as the Inexhaustible Lurcher can finagle. Elizabeth can’t bring herself to call researching the wonderfully diverse, scandalous Regency period and creating charismatic heroes and feisty heroines work, and she is waiting for someone to find out how much fun she is having and tell her to stop it.

Reviews

[Mina · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoyed Beacon's writing, for the most part. It was fun and light, with excellent use of Regency romance vocab and very few annoying verbal tics (the two main ones being the overuse of the word 'houri' and odd choice of moments to list out the hero's and others' full names). However, the story had a lot of weaknesses. The supposed past conflict between the hero and heroine was endlessly referred to, but never really explained. I think it'd have been better conveyed with a flashback or two. Then, the characters are appealing at the beginning, but become flat as the story unrolls. And, worst of all, the book is just plain boring. I was able to put it down and walk away almost a dozen times, and it took me a few days to slog through it - when I generally make a point of getting through a romance novel in one sitting, and have no difficulty doing so. As it's a category romance, I really expected it to be a quick, breezy read. It is breezy, but only because it never quite reaches the substance its synopsis promises.

[S Walker · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars
The charm of this story is Edmund, the MMC. His feelings for Kate were so sweet, he understood her so well that he treated her the way she needed to finally accept their relationship. Otherwise, simple story with a HEA.

[Mnms · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice and straightforward romantic story

[Harlequin Historical]

Miniseries: Alstone Sisters

[Wendy · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF.

[Harlequin Books]

Miniseries: Alstone Sisters

[Tanya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good.
I enjoyed it. It was fun but serious also. Very good

[Emily Stone · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't put this book down, from start to finish it was thoroughly enjoyable. Their relationship was full of joy and confusion.

[Lauren Anderspn · Rating 4 out of 5]

more 3 1/2 star. i just wished the hero would at times ease up on the heroine - regardless of the past.

[Cat · Rating 2 out of 5]

good idea but some missing details enjoyed reading