- Mass Market Paperback: 213 pages
- Publisher: Ivy Books (April 29 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0449002330
- ISBN-13: 978-0449002339
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.2 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 23 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,367,356 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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COULD THIS HANDSOME DEVIL BE THE VERY SAME BLACKGUARD SHE JILTED YEARS AGO?
If all went according to plan in London, Deirdre Broghan would have her precocious young sister-in-law engaged to a respectable beau by early summer so she could return to Scotland by June. However, past scandal seemed poised to interfere with her well-intended design.
The grand, arrogant Duke of Conover--the man she once left standing at the altar--was back at the most inopportune time. But as badly as Deirdre wanted to expose his lordship for the abomination he was, she feared the gossip would make mincemeat of young Olivia's chances for a match. As for the Duke, he had fallen in love. Again. For the spirited girl who refused him years ago was now a stunning woman whose heart he vowed to win once and for all!
If all went according to plan in London, Deirdre Broghan would have her precocious young sister-in-law engaged to a respectable beau by early summer so she could return to Scotland by June. However, past scandal seemed poised to interfere with her well-intended design.
The grand, arrogant Duke of Conover--the man she once left standing at the altar--was back at the most inopportune time. But as badly as Deirdre wanted to expose his lordship for the abomination he was, she feared the gossip would make mincemeat of young Olivia's chances for a match. As for the Duke, he had fallen in love. Again. For the spirited girl who refused him years ago was now a stunning woman whose heart he vowed to win once and for all!
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If all went according to plan in London, Deirdre Broghan would have her precocious young sister-in-law engaged to a respectable beau by early summer so she could return to Scotland by June. However, past scandal seemed poised to interfere with her well-intended design. A Regency romance original.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A touching love story, with excellent character development,
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This review is from: His Grace Endures (Mass Market Paperback)
I'd never read any of Emma Jensen's books before this one, and I'll now be searching out more. This is a wonderful book; Ms Jensen demonstrates some great skills of storytelling, characterisation and emotion in this tale of a widow who has to confront and deal with the man she jilted seven years earlier and who she believes to have been ultimately responsible for her husband's death. And yet she discovers that the Duke of Conovar is nothing like she imagined. And very soon, because of the cruel gossip which starts to spread about him, she becomes his staunchest defender rather than his enemy. There are some heartwrenching scenes in this book, as well as some dialogue which had me glued to the page. It's impossible not to be touched by Conovar's sincerity or Deirdre's anguish as each finds out that they were mistaken about each other and about other characters whose actions impinged on their lives and destroyed their relationship seven years earlier. I thoroughly recommend this book, and I'm completely bemused by Susan Johnson's review, below. Ignore it, go with the other positive reviews on this page. This book deserved any and every award it won!
1.0 out of 5 stars
What was RITA thinking?,
By Annie (Pearl River, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: His Grace Endures (Mass Market Paperback)
I was so disappointed in this book. Since it was the 1998 RITA award as best regency, and beat "Lord Heartless" for that win, I was expecting a terrific novel. Instead, the book drags and the characters act in such an unrealistic ways. As far as the Duke goes, our hero, he has no family or friends. The heroine, and I use that term lightly, plays at being a spinster and dressing as a drab. For some reason, delights in hiding her beauty. In the ballroom scene, she behaves in such a manner that loses me entirely - as well as any interest that she should end up with the Duke in the end. He deserved better! The dukes only friend betrays him. He is a miserable man who society now scornes when he did nothing wrong in the first place! He should have packed his bags and came to america. I usually like Emma Jensen's books. There was nothing romantic about the book. Only a creepy feeling at the way society ended up treating the Duke.
5.0 out of 5 stars
She left him standing at the altar to marry his best friend.,
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This review is from: His Grace Endures (Mass Market Paperback)
Lucas, the Duke of Canover, fell in love with Deirdre when he first saw her, but--not being adept at showing his feelings--he conspired with her social-climbing father to make her his wife, instead of wooing her. Severely beaten by her father when she tried to refuse, Deirdre was desperate to escape, and did not fight her attraction to his best friend Jonas, who convinced her to run from the altar into his arms and a hasty marriage at Gretna Green.Seven years later, a widowed Deirdre, despising the false values of the ton and valuing her quiet life at the Scottish cottage she and Jonas had shared during their marriage, finds it necessary to return to the London to sponsor her beloved sister-in-law on the Marriage Mart. When she and Lucas meet again after that disastrous wedding-that-never-was, sparks fly between them and rumors abound that Lucas is a blackguard who broke her heart and is determined to get revenge. The truth, however, is that Deirdre discovers that he is not the blackguard she believed him to be. In fact, he is a fine, worthy man who wanted--and surprisingly still wants--only to love her the rest of her life. Does she have the courage to forsake the quiet life in the Scottish countryside for marriage to a man she thought she despised for seven years? Will Lucas make the same mistake of letting her go without a fight? Although I started this book late in the evening and planned only to read a chapter or so, I found myself completely engrossed and could not stop until I had finished it. I will definitely look for more books by this author.
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