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On Bended Knee
In this charming Regency anthology, three couples discover that the path to wedded bliss can be strewn with surprises and misunderstandings. . .but true love always triumphs!
One true love / by Alice Holden
The husband hunt / by Kate Huntington
Trusting Lady Lucy / by Laura Paquet
One true love / by Alice Holden
The husband hunt / by Kate Huntington
Trusting Lady Lucy / by Laura Paquet
- GenresRomance
284 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
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April 24, 2025
One True Love by Alice Holden
With only a meagre competence and no prospects, Kate Hamilton must make her own way in life as a governess. Her good friend, veterinarian Daniel Nealy, offers to help her acquire a position with a local wealthy family, where she meets the irrepressible Lord Percy. But despite the dashing lord's amorous attentions, it's upstanding honourable Daniel who makes Kate yearn to say "I do".
It's all very well to make up your own mind about people, but to do so you have to use your brain. Supposedly intelligent enough to teach, Kate's inability to see through Percy's antics was ludicrous. She is a woman of 25, not a naive adolescent. I fail to see why Daniel would want anything to do with her. Pah!
The Husband Hunt by Kate Huntington
Everard Montclair is ready to throttle his younger brother for returning from the war with a foreign bride. Michael had a long-standing engagement to Lady Linnea, and its sundering is sure to reult in scandal. Worse, Linnea's father has gambled away her dowry. Only a cad would desert a female in such a predicament, so Everard offers to find her an acceptable husband - little realising that Linnea has already found the ideal candidate.
I fail to believe Lord Wrenthorpe loved his daughter at all or he would have thought more to Linnea's comfort. Everard is kind, attractive chap, so Linnea certainly fell on her feet. A nice, if predictable, tale.
Trusting Lady Lucy by Laura Paquet
Lady Lucinda Denham yearns to be taken seriously by the sophisticated writers who flock to her mother's parties. All the more humiliating, then, when Stephen Charlton, London's most daring playwright, overhears Lucy telling a friend that his female characters just don't seem believable. But when the pair find themselves as guests at the same country house party, Stephen learns that a woman need not be sophisticated to have insights into creativity... or the human heart.
Having been around sophisticated, literate people all her life, one would think Lucy would have absorbed a bit more & be a little less pert & gauche with adult company. Lucy & Stephen do suit each other, which is a definite plus.
With only a meagre competence and no prospects, Kate Hamilton must make her own way in life as a governess. Her good friend, veterinarian Daniel Nealy, offers to help her acquire a position with a local wealthy family, where she meets the irrepressible Lord Percy. But despite the dashing lord's amorous attentions, it's upstanding honourable Daniel who makes Kate yearn to say "I do".
It's all very well to make up your own mind about people, but to do so you have to use your brain. Supposedly intelligent enough to teach, Kate's inability to see through Percy's antics was ludicrous. She is a woman of 25, not a naive adolescent. I fail to see why Daniel would want anything to do with her. Pah!
The Husband Hunt by Kate Huntington
Everard Montclair is ready to throttle his younger brother for returning from the war with a foreign bride. Michael had a long-standing engagement to Lady Linnea, and its sundering is sure to reult in scandal. Worse, Linnea's father has gambled away her dowry. Only a cad would desert a female in such a predicament, so Everard offers to find her an acceptable husband - little realising that Linnea has already found the ideal candidate.
I fail to believe Lord Wrenthorpe loved his daughter at all or he would have thought more to Linnea's comfort. Everard is kind, attractive chap, so Linnea certainly fell on her feet. A nice, if predictable, tale.
Trusting Lady Lucy by Laura Paquet
Lady Lucinda Denham yearns to be taken seriously by the sophisticated writers who flock to her mother's parties. All the more humiliating, then, when Stephen Charlton, London's most daring playwright, overhears Lucy telling a friend that his female characters just don't seem believable. But when the pair find themselves as guests at the same country house party, Stephen learns that a woman need not be sophisticated to have insights into creativity... or the human heart.
Having been around sophisticated, literate people all her life, one would think Lucy would have absorbed a bit more & be a little less pert & gauche with adult company. Lucy & Stephen do suit each other, which is a definite plus.
December 27, 2014
surprisingly, all three short stories were well rounded and interesting, one of the best regency romance anthology i've read
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