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His Lordship's Dilemma: Vol. 12
Miss Elinor Temple has been teaching at a school when the head mistress dies. She accompanies one of her pupils home to her guardian when the school is closed thinking to seek a new post afterwards. Marcus was not expecting his ward and coaxes Miss Temple to stay as a companion to his ward whilst she goes through a London season. There is a wicked Uncle who tries to relieve Hester of her fortune which adds to the interest.When Miss Elinor Temple delivers Hester Winton to her guardian, Marcus, Lord Rokeby, they arrive in the middle of a party, which Elinor calls an orgy! When Marcus insists on employing her as Hester's duenna, she knows she must guard her heart, too.
571 pages, Paperback
First published April 11, 1997
About the author
Meg Alexander
60 books10 followersMeg Alexander has been writing since childhood. Her first efforts were plays to be performed by her brothers, sister and cousins as family entertainment at Christmas time.
She married at nineteen and had a son. During his childhood she concentrated on freelance journalism, writing on crime, psychology, gardening, travel and cookery. At thirty-eight the breakdown of her marriage brought the need to earn more money. For the next twenty years she claims to have ‘lived on her wits’, becoming a representative for a textile firm in the north of England, and a professional cook in exalted circles. Then she moved into administration, as Assistant Director of the British Red Cross Society’s Conference Centre, and later managing a large Hall of Residence for students of King’s College, London.
During this time she gained a BA Degree from the Open University. When Meg retired she moved to Spain, where she wrote a weekly gardening column for an English language newspaper. The Costa Blanca News, and travel and cookery pieces for Inter-express. After eight years the call of grandchildren was too strong and she moved back to England, settling first in Kent and then in East Sussex.
She began to write historical fiction, encouraged by winning first prize in a competition run by Writers’ News for the best opening chapter of a historical romance. The judge was a senior editor from Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd. She asked to see the rest of the book, but even after two re-writes it wasn’t considered suitable for publication. The same thing happened with a second book, but Meg was third-time lucky. The Last Enchantment, a Regency Romance was published in 1995.
She married at nineteen and had a son. During his childhood she concentrated on freelance journalism, writing on crime, psychology, gardening, travel and cookery. At thirty-eight the breakdown of her marriage brought the need to earn more money. For the next twenty years she claims to have ‘lived on her wits’, becoming a representative for a textile firm in the north of England, and a professional cook in exalted circles. Then she moved into administration, as Assistant Director of the British Red Cross Society’s Conference Centre, and later managing a large Hall of Residence for students of King’s College, London.
During this time she gained a BA Degree from the Open University. When Meg retired she moved to Spain, where she wrote a weekly gardening column for an English language newspaper. The Costa Blanca News, and travel and cookery pieces for Inter-express. After eight years the call of grandchildren was too strong and she moved back to England, settling first in Kent and then in East Sussex.
She began to write historical fiction, encouraged by winning first prize in a competition run by Writers’ News for the best opening chapter of a historical romance. The judge was a senior editor from Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd. She asked to see the rest of the book, but even after two re-writes it wasn’t considered suitable for publication. The same thing happened with a second book, but Meg was third-time lucky. The Last Enchantment, a Regency Romance was published in 1995.
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January 2, 2024
You keep wondering when it will get sexy, and it just never does...
April 23, 2014
0.5 star
his lordship's dilemma
- his dilemma is that he is the perfect product of his times. useless, in everything but dressing, wrenching, drinking, and making polite conversation.
End is anticlimactic, hero seems pretty useless throughout the book, good intentions, but ineffective. Heroine started strong but in order to make the hero be the hero and save the day, ended up inconsistently weak.
3 stars
The Last Gamble - A lot of fun (especially after reading his lordship's dilemma) Loved the serendipitous plot. Loved the interactions between Captain Duncan Blair and Helen Sanghurst, their banter, how hard they tried to push the other away and yet was unable to not help out.
his lordship's dilemma
- his dilemma is that he is the perfect product of his times. useless, in everything but dressing, wrenching, drinking, and making polite conversation.
End is anticlimactic, hero seems pretty useless throughout the book, good intentions, but ineffective. Heroine started strong but in order to make the hero be the hero and save the day, ended up inconsistently weak.
3 stars
The Last Gamble - A lot of fun (especially after reading his lordship's dilemma) Loved the serendipitous plot. Loved the interactions between Captain Duncan Blair and Helen Sanghurst, their banter, how hard they tried to push the other away and yet was unable to not help out.
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