
A 17-year-old offers herself in a marriage of convenience to an earl to save her sister, navigating Georgian society, jealousy, and unexpected romance.
A 17-year-old offers herself in a marriage of convenience to an earl to save her sister, navigating Georgian society, jealousy, and unexpected romance.
When Lord Marcus Drelincourt, Earl of Rule, the most eligible match of Georgian England, offers for the hand of the oldest and prettiest sister of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended. Beauty Lizzie Winwood already is promised to Edward Heron, an also impoverished military, who she loves, but the wealthy Earl of Rule wants her as his wife. Lizzie's younger sister Horatia conceives a dazzling plan to avert a nuptial disaster, and offers herself, since he rea...
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Marriage of convenience with romantic tension and attraction; fade-to-black intimacy
Two fencing duels with terminology and tension but no graphic gore
No profanity present
No substance use depicted
No LGBTQ+ representation
No religious themes present
No magic or witchcraft elements
No occult content
Class and social status dynamics in Georgian society
No self-harm or suicide depicted
Age-gap marriage; arranged marriage and infidelity themes
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Quick, clean, and good. I would very much recommend this one. One intriguing thing about this book is that it begins with the marriage and moves…