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by Elisabeth Fairchild

Author: Elisabeth Fairchild
Language: English
ISBN: 0451193342
ISBN13: 978-0451193346
Publisher: Signet (December 1, 1997)
Category: Historical
Subcategory: Romance
Rating: 4.5
Votes: 668
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ePub file: 1396 kb
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Elisabeth Fairchild is half English and considers the British Isles her second home. With a degree in advertising from North Texas State University, Fairchild worked for ten years in advertising before writing full-time.

Elisabeth Fairchild is half English and considers the British Isles her second home. She lives just outside Dallas with her best friend and husband, George, and their two dogs. Series: Signet Regency Romance.

After her family's financial ruin wrecks her engagement to Lord Langston, who abandons her for the London marriage mart yet forbids her to love another man.

After her family's financial ruin wrecks her engagement to Lord Langston, who abandons her for the London marriage mart yet forbids her to love another ma.

Marriage a la Mode book. Could the scandal of the season become a romance to remember as a man and a woman who'd sworn off happiness plunged-heart first-into love?.

Regency Christmas Wishes Anthology. Signet regency romance. Anyway, they came to cast their eyes over me, the woman who has finally trapped the Carlyon fortune in marriage-well, almost marriage, anyway. I shall never go to see a fair-ground monstrosity again, for now I know how they feel. One more raised lorgnette and I would have screamed!

Signet Books was an imprint of the New American Library (NAL), which was established as an autonomous American publishing house after branching off from its British-based parent company, Penguin Books. Signet had the longest running Regency series, beginning in the late 1970s and ending in February 2006. It generally published three books each month, though this varied over the years. Signet also produced reissues, both of their own previous releases as well as those of other publishers.

You can read Marriage à La Mode by Ward Humphry Mrs. in our library for absolutely free. Read various fiction books with us in our e-reader. Under federal law, if you knowingly misrepresent that online material is infringing, you may be subject to criminal prosecution for perjury and civil penalties, including monetary damages, court costs, and attorneys’ fees. I am not proud of it, but I suppose I fell into an absurd way of thinking that her marriage would someday make all our fortunes. After all, Harriet was Isabella’s godmother. What could be more natural than for darling Isabella to someday enjoy a Season under her godmother’s aegis?

The Marriage Masquerade (Signet Regency Romance) DesJardien, Teresa Mass Market.

A Marriage of Convenience (Signet Regency Romance) Format: Mass Market Paperback Authors: Barbara Allister ISBN10: 0451179439 Published: 1997-10-01 The main entrance to the Kyoto Palace, ancient home of the Japanese imperial family, is called the Door to Heaven. How the emperors fell from heaven is a story that crosses two world wars, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American occupation of Japan, and Japan's phoenix-like rise from the ashes of the Second World War.

He's sending you back your marriage lines as a gentle reminder. Does everybody have marriage lines? I thought they were only for servants.

In the midst of divorce proceedings against the cruel lord she had wed a few years before, Lady Melody Bainbridge mistakes Dunstan Hays, Earl of Erroll, for a gardener, when she sees him collecting saplings for his estate

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With only 222 pages, this little book, which was published 20 years ago, manages to delve successfully into a serious issue, not just skim its surface. And, although the "fall into love" part of the relationship here is not as convincing as it could be, mostly because of the heroine's behavior toward the hero at first, once they are in love it's a beautiful love story.

Many of Fairchild's Regencies have been converted to e-format. This one and another favorite of mine, LORD ENDICOTT'S APPETITE, have not been, unfortunately, and won't be read by many. Too bad, because this is one of the most realistic looks at divorce in the 1800s I've read in an HR. It wasn't as easy to get a divorce (or even an annulment) as many recently-written HRs would have you believe. Even Prinny wasn't successful in his divorce proceedings against Queen Caroline.

And that brings me to the craftsmanship of this story. It begins with our hero Duncan Hays, Earl of Erroll, stuck in a London traffic jam near the royal residence caused by the swarm of people out to view the scandalous divorce spectacle. Duncan overhears a conversation in a nearby carriage and is entranced by the voice and laughter of a woman addressed as Melody by her carriage companion. They meet again, very coincidentally, at Tunbridge Wells, where he learns that that lovely voice belongs to the scandalous Lady Bainbridge, who has the gall to want to attempt divorce proceedings against her husband.

Melody is prickly at first. Her husband has been consistently unfaithful and both verbally and physically abusive. When she meets Duncan she is covered by a veil to hide her bruises and is not inclined to want anything to do with any man. But Duncan is so kind and so noble and so difficult to ignore that she learns to trust him and to love him.

The love story is quite touching because each is willing to sacrifice for the other. Duncan is willing to give up the chance for legitimate heirs and a scandal-free life just so he can have Melody at his side. Melody knows she must give up the possibility of life with this loving man because she brings too much scandal and baggage to the relationship. Meanwhile, we have the two divorce proceedings going on. Prinny attempting to rid himself of his queen and Melody's seemingly impossible attempts to get out of her abusive relationship.

This isn't a perfect story but it has some beautiful, warm and poignant moments. There are also great secondary characters, especially Duncan's mother, and backstory for Duncan, who had been disappointed in love some years before. All in all, this is interesting, well done and with a masterly ending which finds the H and h in another London traffic jam to bring us full circle.

One minor quibble I have with this is that, although there appears to be some good research by Fairchild to deal with the divorce issue, she is somewhat shaky about titles and address. The hero is Duncan Hays, Earl of Erroll. Shouldn't he be Lord Erroll? Instead she has him addressed as Lord Hays, and his mother is the Dowager Countess of Hays. Just saying. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Chillhunter

Although not the best from Ms Fairchild, if you like her writing, add this to your library.