Lady Whilton's Wedding and an Enchanted Affair

by Barbara Metzger

Two full-length Regency romances in one volume include "Lady Whilton's Wedding," in which a young woman finds love while trying to salvage her mother's wedding, and "An Enchanted Affair," in which a wealthy heiress offers both her fortune and hand in marriage to preserve a local forest. Original.

Genres: Regency, Romance, Historical Romance, Historical

512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published August 2, 2005

About the author

Barbara Metzger is the author of over three dozen books and a dozen novellas. She has also been an editor, a proof-reader, a greeting card verse-writer, and an artist. When not painting, writing romances or reading them, she volunteers at the local library, gardens and goes beach-combing and yard-saling.

Her novels, mostly set in Regency-era England, have won numerous awards, including the Romance Writers of America RITA, the National Reader's Choice Award, and the Madcap award for humor in romance writing. In addition, Barbara has won two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times Magazine.

Source: http://www.barbarametzger.com/about_b...

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the interplay between the protagonists and the mental dialogue was hysterical. Definitely worth a read, but upon a re-read, I felt it wasn't worthy of being on my "keepers" bookcase. Definitely a classic.

[Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Those stars are intended solely for An Enchanted Affair, which is sweet and hopeful, if not altogether satisfying. Lady Whilton's Wedding deserves no stars for its series of cringeworthy events and a hero and heroine who are incapable of actually communicating with one another.

[Jerry Jares · Rating 4 out of 5]

LADY WHILTON'S WEDDING -- At the opening of this story, Daphne Whilton has dumped her informal (life-long) engagement to Lord Graydon Howell. When he can't get Daphne to reinstate the engagement, he buys a commission and goes to fight on the Peninsula. After two years, he comes back wounded. His father and Daphne's mother, both having outlived their partners, have fallen in love and plan to marry.

Gray is dedicated to the idea of getting back together with Daphne as part of the wedding party. However, Daphne is considering a marriage proposal from the local magistrate. In the mix of all these happy and unhappy emotions flying around, Baron Whilton, a drunken ne'er do well, invades the wedding and tries to derail it. Then the fun begins; the author is in top form with the ridiculous and the wild antics of a baron who keels over dead, a valet who tries to ransom two children for lots of loot, Gray's old mistress who gets the wrong message and tries to disrupt the wedding, etc.

AN ENCHANTED AFFAIR -- This is a very different story from the usual Barbara Metzger fare. Lisanne Neville grew up with tales of faeries and long walks through Sevrin Woods (nearby but not belonging to the Neville family). Her parents died when she was young and a greedy uncle moved in and started stripping the value from Lisanne's inheritance. Now, Lisanne hears that her beloved woods is about to be sold to pay off the gambling debts of the young Duke of Sevrin.

Lisanne asks St. Sevrin to marry her. She will trade her immense fortune for his woods. When they enter into marriage, everything changes. This is a charming tale. Overall: 4.5 stars

[Linda Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume combines two charming regency romances. "Lady Whilton's Wedding" is laugh-out-loud funny. Daphne Whilton is trying to plan the perfect wedding for her mother. Uncle Albert is an uninvited guest who not only shows up but then has the poor taste to die in his bed. Daphne needs to conceal the corpse until after the ceremony. If the body is discovered, the family would need to go into mourning and the wedding must be postponed. Uncle Albert is hated by just about everyone who has ever met him. A comedy of errors ensues as one well-meaning person after another moves the corpse to a new hiding place. "An Enchanted Affair" is also a wedding story but this one owes more to Cinderella. Lisanne is a young girl when she becomes orphaned. Her story also involves an evil relative. Her greedy uncle moves into her manor home with his sickly wife and nasty children. He is Lisanne's appointed guardian and is determined to keep her unmarried and under his control so that he can continue to plunder the estate. Part of his plot is to convince everyone that Lisanne is insane. But our heroine is anything but and comes up with a novel solution to her problem. Both of these novels were romantic and great fun to read. I'll look for more of this author's work.

[AnnaBanana Pascone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lady Whilton's Wedding is seriously one of the funniest Regency Romances I have ever read. I rarely laugh out loud when I read, but it happened over and over with this one. An Enchanted Affair was also an excellent read, so I can't recommend this book more highly.

[Acfilmer · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you love Jane Austen, you'll like Barbara Metzger. She's not as refined, but she's accurate, and oh, SO witty. The woman really has a talent in blending romance and humour. A wonderful read.