Review: Regency romance where the girl takes her future into her own hands
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2012
Ladies have no choice in their lives outside of choosing what color they will wear for a certain event in historical English society. There is some freedom once one is a widow, but a single marriageable girl of gentle birth has no choice but to try to hook the best and richest husband and hope he isn't a drunkard or a wife beater.So we meet Anna Hadley who must enter into a marriage of convenience with handsome, young Lord Rupert Shalford. Sir John Radcliffe, her step-father has plans to get rid of her to whom ever can buy the best wedding contract (read: pay him half of her dowery money), much like a slave purchase, but as a broodmare for future noble children.Lord Rupert's older brother Ralph, The Duke of Westchester falls for Anna right away because she is smart and independent (when she slapped him, that must have woken him up from his mediocre existence). There is a bunch of nonsense about a 'fake' marriage and then a kidnapping and race to find Anna before she is force to marry a nefarious friend of Lord John. There is one sexy scene at the very end which makes this a soft 90's style of Regency romance story. Well written and the kindle format was ok and not at all choppy. 138 pages of sassy Anna the heroine that makes the best with what she has and gets what she deserves in the end.