Another lively read from Ella Quinn.
The Marquis She's Been Waiting For (The Marriage Game #9)
by Ella Quinn
What do you do when you've become the Marquis earlier than wished, your mother's scandalously run off with the land steward leaving your two sisters in your care, and you know nothing about managing households, lands, or young ladies?
What Alexander, now Marquis of Exeter decides is that he needs a wife to help him through the mire of governing his marquisate. An aunt he's asked for assistance fires off the following tersely worded sensible sentiment, 'My advice is to find a wife.'
Meanwhile Lady Dorcus Calthorp, daughter of a Marquis and sister one of Alex's friends, crosses Alex's path and decides to help him by introducing him to eligible potential candidates.
Dorie discounts herself as a candidate. She's decided to marry for love, like the rest of her family. (I must admit to finding the interactions of her parents, the Marquis and Marchioness of Huntington very amusing.)
Alex is completely bamboozled about the idea of being in love. This is foreign territory and not for him. However as he starts to change his mind he ruminates that, "This falling in love made life much more problematical just when it did not need more complications."
He feels his only viable action is to pursue the reluctant Dorie. Having decided she is his preference will be difficult because, "Dorie was definitely a challenge. His greatest one yet."
Now added to this it seems his father has another family. We don't hear much in this novel but that fact seems to be somewhat up in the air and hidden. Will it come to light later? And then there's Dorie's friend Lady Augusta Vivers, who seems to me even more absent minded than ever. Mmmm!
What with amongst many things, preventing scandals from coming to light, needing a wife, and not even on a nodding notice with the idea of falling in love, our newly minted noble has his hands full, as does his chosen lady.
A Kensington Books ARC via NetGalley
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by Ella Quinn
What Alexander, now Marquis of Exeter decides is that he needs a wife to help him through the mire of governing his marquisate. An aunt he's asked for assistance fires off the following tersely worded sensible sentiment, 'My advice is to find a wife.'
Meanwhile Lady Dorcus Calthorp, daughter of a Marquis and sister one of Alex's friends, crosses Alex's path and decides to help him by introducing him to eligible potential candidates.
Dorie discounts herself as a candidate. She's decided to marry for love, like the rest of her family. (I must admit to finding the interactions of her parents, the Marquis and Marchioness of Huntington very amusing.)
Alex is completely bamboozled about the idea of being in love. This is foreign territory and not for him. However as he starts to change his mind he ruminates that, "This falling in love made life much more problematical just when it did not need more complications."
He feels his only viable action is to pursue the reluctant Dorie. Having decided she is his preference will be difficult because, "Dorie was definitely a challenge. His greatest one yet."
Now added to this it seems his father has another family. We don't hear much in this novel but that fact seems to be somewhat up in the air and hidden. Will it come to light later? And then there's Dorie's friend Lady Augusta Vivers, who seems to me even more absent minded than ever. Mmmm!
What with amongst many things, preventing scandals from coming to light, needing a wife, and not even on a nodding notice with the idea of falling in love, our newly minted noble has his hands full, as does his chosen lady.
A Kensington Books ARC via NetGalley
****
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