Resultaat voor "The Trap" in Régence romantiek

She came to Ramsgate to recover. He came to protect his sister. Someone else came to ruin them both. Elizabeth Bennet came to Ramsgate to recover from the worst months of her life, not to be caught in a scandal with the most irritating man in England. Fitzwilliam Darcy came to Ramsgate to protect his sister, not to find himself honour bound to marry a woman who would rather throw him into the sea. But when one catastrophic event leaves them publicly compromised, the only way to restore their reputations is a hasty engagement neither of them chooses.

Miss Caroline Quick is desperate to escape London for the freedom of the wilds and her career as a naturalist—but she must get her widowed mother married before she can go. It’s a simple enough idea; track down Mama’s first love and engineer a meeting…with the help of the gentleman’s alarmingly charming son.

Leonora Holt never expected that her two younger sisters would find love before her. Lately she's grown disconcertingly accustomed to her brother's sighs and hints that she needs to marry. How can she find anyone when one dreadful man, the Duke of Dartmouth, is intent on reminding all the ton of her mother's scandal?

When Miss Patience Findley discovers, at her first ball of her first Season, just how much her father's scandal has affected her chances of marriage, she resigns herself to being alone and dying a spinster. That is, until she hears that her friends' names have landed in the Betting Book at White's. In a moment of desperation, she asks her reprobate cousin to place a bet on her behalf, in hopes of trapping an unsuspecting gentleman into marriage.