- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Mira/ Mills & Boon (Jun 19 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0263875423
- ISBN-13: 978-0263875423
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.6 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #929,147 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An Invitation to a Regency Summer House Party" - The Fitzmanning sisters are ready to take the Ton by storm! Justine Fitzmanning has resigned herself to the knowledge that no man will ever accept her scandalous birth - the illegitimate daughter of a duke has no place in society. She finds happiness in looking after her legitimate younger brothers and sisters. Until the arrival of Viscount Brenner, whose rakish looks and polished manners set her aflame...Annalise Fitzmanning has no intention of marrying the suitor picked out for her by her family. Ned Milford may be attractive, witty, charming - but Annalise has bigger plans for her life. Then her artistic ambitions land her at the heart of the biggest scandal of the season...Charlotte Fitzmanning might be the youngest of the beautiful Fitzmanning sisters, but she knows her own mind - and she wants Lord Andrew Bassington. Her dilemma? How can she make Drew see her as the beautiful young lady she is, not the spoiled child she once was?
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Very well done joint effort, Aug 23 2009
By Susan Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Regency Summer Scandals (Paperback)
I do like Regency anthologies, especially Christmas anthologies. However, I have been disappointed in the anthologies where three or more authors "link" the stories so that effectively you have multiple voices dealing with many of the same characters. Usually it's not completely successful. However, I was tempted to this one because (1) I admire Diane Gaston very much; and (2) there aren't many regency anthologies and I was happy to find one with at least 2 authors I recognised (I have read other books by Amanda McCabe).
This one was very well done. The first story sets the stage for a family of a Duke and his mistress (finally Duchess) and their family of half siblings - some legitimate and some not. Raised in an unconventional but extremely loving and happy family, they are mutually supportive and united. However, when their parents die abroad on honeymoon, one of the half siblings (the Duchess's abandoned son of her first marriage) appears on the scene to sort out the confusion and chaos caused by the sudden death. Each story follows one of the illigitate daughters.
The first story (Gaston) tells how Viscount Brenner (the abanded child) finds love with the Duke's eldest daughter. Both hurt, both have been damaged but both are mature and capable people who stand in loco parentis to the rest of the family. The second story (Deb Marlow - unknown to me) is about the elder of the Duke and Duchess's daughters who is an artist. This story was particularly interesting because the hero is a newpaper cartoonist - something I've never encountered before. He falls for Annalise but learns something about the hurt his particular line of work can cause. In the final story (McCabe) we learn about how one of the family's friends finds happiness with the youngest of the daughters, one of life's charming girls but who suffers from awareness of her lack of "respectability". The one error that arose in all of this was to get Andrew Bassington's name wrong in two of the stories. As the second son of an earl he has no title other than The Hon Andrew Bassington. Just a distraction.
Overall, this was a very good effort. Not quite a keeper although in Gaston's hands as a full length novel it very well might have been. I do recommend this for a nice, easy, and satisfying read.
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