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Regency Series #1
The Fortescue Diamond
LOVE IS BLIND...BUT THIS LADY'S EYES ARE WIDE OPEN!
Louisa Beckenham had never been so humiliated in all her twenty-five years! Her brother could only marry beautiful, cold-as-ice Gwendolyn Fortescue on one condition: Louisa must be wedded and gone from Marleyboure Court. After all, a house could not have two mistresses. But now, with a pompous vicar, a fish-faced fop, and an aging libertine as her only prospects, Louisa was well and truly at her wits' end...
Enter rakish gamester James Morrison – just in time to rescue Louisa from an overturned coach and a a disastrous match. A scandalously seductive scoundrel, Morrison sent Louisa flowers bound by a silk stocking and showered her with kisses that proper London society would deem most improper. But Louisa had made her choice. Wed her irresistible suitor she would...even if she must propose to him herself!
Louisa Beckenham had never been so humiliated in all her twenty-five years! Her brother could only marry beautiful, cold-as-ice Gwendolyn Fortescue on one condition: Louisa must be wedded and gone from Marleyboure Court. After all, a house could not have two mistresses. But now, with a pompous vicar, a fish-faced fop, and an aging libertine as her only prospects, Louisa was well and truly at her wits' end...
Enter rakish gamester James Morrison – just in time to rescue Louisa from an overturned coach and a a disastrous match. A scandalously seductive scoundrel, Morrison sent Louisa flowers bound by a silk stocking and showered her with kisses that proper London society would deem most improper. But Louisa had made her choice. Wed her irresistible suitor she would...even if she must propose to him herself!
- GenresRomanceRegency Romance
384 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1994
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July 26, 2016
A well written regency romance with more heft than most. The romance between Louisa and Morrison was almost a secondary plot to the central mystery surrounding the beautiful Gwendolyn Fortescue (known as the Fortescue diamond) and how all her tragically young rich suitors who were lost to war.
February 15, 2015
I really enjoyed the intrigue in this book, but I really wish that Louisa had been more on top of things. Keeping her in the dark didn't sit right with me, and she had a lot of the clues. That being said I very much enjoyed it and would read it again.
May 18, 2014
I liked the beautiful, cold, deadly Gwendolyn Fortescue. I loved the drama surrounding her secret betrothals and her family's attempts to get her suitors killed.
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