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Regency Series #4
The Marquess Lends A Hand
...ONE WAY FOR A LADY TO MAKE A MATCH
Phoebe Parmenter was in a terrible predicament: she was being blackmailed into marriage by her beloved stepmother's wastrel cousin. Under her father's thumb all her life, Phoebe didn't particularly mourn the old tyrant's death in a supposed riding accident. Unfortunately, Philip Fordyce is prepared to prove the squire's death was no accident. If her stepmother is not to hang for murder, Phoebe will have to wed this man she despises.
...KIDNAP THE GENTLEMAN!
Piers Duchesne, the rakish Marquess of Stovall, was on his way to a friend's country estate for the Christmas holidays when a pair of schoolgirls disguised as highwaymen abducted him. Phoebe Parmenter's well-meaning sisters pleaded for the nobleman's assistance. Bored and possessed of a considerable sense of humor, Duchesne found himself playing the role of detective in a most peculiar murder investigation...and about to save a damsel in real distress. But neither he nor Phoebe anticipated the perils that awaited them...or a blossoming romance filled with all the wonder and mystery of true love...
Phoebe Parmenter was in a terrible predicament: she was being blackmailed into marriage by her beloved stepmother's wastrel cousin. Under her father's thumb all her life, Phoebe didn't particularly mourn the old tyrant's death in a supposed riding accident. Unfortunately, Philip Fordyce is prepared to prove the squire's death was no accident. If her stepmother is not to hang for murder, Phoebe will have to wed this man she despises.
...KIDNAP THE GENTLEMAN!
Piers Duchesne, the rakish Marquess of Stovall, was on his way to a friend's country estate for the Christmas holidays when a pair of schoolgirls disguised as highwaymen abducted him. Phoebe Parmenter's well-meaning sisters pleaded for the nobleman's assistance. Bored and possessed of a considerable sense of humor, Duchesne found himself playing the role of detective in a most peculiar murder investigation...and about to save a damsel in real distress. But neither he nor Phoebe anticipated the perils that awaited them...or a blossoming romance filled with all the wonder and mystery of true love...
318 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1996
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January 9, 2014
Interesting, as with all of monique ellis's regency romances, the romance is almost sidelined by the central mystery, in this case how did Phobe father die? Unfortunately Phobe's idiotic insistence of marrying Phillip as the only to save her (rather undeserving) stepmother and step-sisters makes her seem to be a woman of very limited understanding, thus I couldn't really buy into the romance between her and a worldly rakish marquess.
March 17, 2014
I really couldn't stand Phoebe. For a supposedly intelligent girl, she's foolishly agreeing to marry the horrid Phillip to save her not-at-all-deserving step mother. Just not believable. She has so many chances to tell Piers the truth, and still fails to come clean. I just didn't like this as a story at all.
December 30, 2010
Felt the story was really drawn out. Kept looking for the ending.
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