The Marrying Season

by Martha Kirkland

Miss Colly Sommes had always mocked the thought of marriage. Until Lord Ethan Raymond had come visiting her country home, to seek her hand in wedlock--or so she thought. But Colly soon woke to the devastating truth--Lord Raymond thought she was the jade who had led his younger brother astray. He had come to repair the damage and settle the score.

Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 1995

About the author

Martha Kirkland is a graduate of Georgia State University and has taught both English and drama at the high school level. A classical singer, she believes it was the years she spent practicing scales that gave her the discipline needed to write twenty-six books. She is a lifelong resident of Atlanta, and her family includes a husband and two daughters.

Reviews

[Mary - Buried Under Romance · Rating 3 out of 5]

Middling read by Kirkland. The misunderstandings are silly due to lack of communication, as though the author felt that a simple courtship between a democratic baron and an almost bluestocking spinster is not enough to sustain the pages. I beg to differ. However, these small misunderstandings (that the heroine didn't let the hero know that her sister was the one given the betrothal ring by his brother) are just tedious to read with insufficient justification.

The story does improve once the hero figured out the misunderstanding, but doesn't let his family or the heroine know that. Unfortunately, the addition of the Duke of Clarence's marriage (merely filler here, as it turns out) as well as the hero's stance on education reforms did not contribute to the romance or the plot in but the slightest way (i.e. invoking jealousy), and the additional details were inserted almost as if the author decided the romance was not entertaining enough by its own merit.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Misadventures, miscommunication and love. Cute. The younger siblings of the heroine and the hero are a bit too daft for my taste, but I suppose we needed a ploy to bring these two together.