When The Marquess Met His Match: An American Heiress in London
*Starred Review* Lady Belinda Featherstone might be the best matchmaker in England, but even she has her limits. When Nicholas, the Marquess of Trubridge, informs Belinda he is in the market for a wife, Belinda thinks he must be joking. When she discovers that Nicholas has been separated from his trust fund until he marries a suitable lady, she becomes infuriated. A notorious rake and heartless cad, Nicholas is cut from the same matrimonial cloth as her late husband, so if Nicholas thinks Belinda will help him find some poor, naive American heiress to wed, well, he is sadly mistaken. Using every trick in her matchmaking book, Belinda sets about scuttling Nicholas’ matrimonial plans only to find that the irresistibly charming Nicholas might prove to be a more formidable adversary than she first imagined. In her latest flawlessly written romance, Guhrke launches a new series by elegantly scrutinizing the trade in American wealth for British titles with skillfulness reminiscent of that of Edith Wharton and a sophisticated sense of wit in the vein of Oscar Wilde. Graced with an abundance of memorable characters and rich in lush sensuality, When the Marquess Met His Match is pure reading bliss. --John Charles