From the sparkling ballrooms of Regency London to the wealthy glamour of the country house - let Stephanie Laurens be your guide! Max Rotherbridge had unexpectedly inherited a title and estates that were more of a burden than a blessing. But he hadn't bargained on inheriting the wardship of four beautiful and spirited young ladies. He certainly hadn't expected to behold the embodiment of all his dreams in the lovely Miss Caroline Twinning, oldest of his wards. Society was stunned when the Duke of Twyford introduced four beautiful debutantes to the ton. The wicked duke was more likely to seduce the innocent than protect them! As the Season continued, Max guarded his protegees like a hawk, fending off his fellow rakehells. But one by one, the most confirmed bachelors fell at the feet of the Twinning sisters. And Max knew that he couldn't long escape his destiny - marriage to Miss Caroline Twinning!
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'Stephanie Laurens' heroines are marvellous tributes to Georgette Heyer.' --Cathy Kelly
'All I need is her name on the cover to make me pick up the book.' --New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'All I need is her name on the cover to make me pick up the book.' --New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Stephanie Laurens has been writing historical romance novels for over 16 years and is a New York Times, Publishers Weekly and USA Today bestselling author. She lives near Melbourne, Australia, with her husband and two daughters.
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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
By K. Newman
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Stephanie Laurens has done it again. Or, as she in fact wrote it earlier in her career (this was the second book Laurens ever wrote), she has set the precedent for her future work. A well written, fast paced Regency Romance - in fact four for the price of one.
Max Rotherbridge inherited more than a dukedom on the death of his father eighteen months previous to the opening of the book - unknown to him he also inherited 4 wards. An established rake, he is initially dismayed to learn of his responsibilities, but dismay quickly turns into something else when he is presented with the eldest of the four sisters, Caroline Twinning.
It appears that Twinnings have something of a thing for rakes, as the four gorgeous sisters cut a swath through the ton and have the men at their feet. They may seem young, with the exception of 26 year old Caroline, but their eighteen months in America have given them a great deal of polish, and the freedom to discover what it is they really want in life.
This is a truly delightful tale and for me the principle enjoyment is the relationship between the females in the story. Set in a time when women rarely triumphed, here Caroline and her sisters Sarah, Arabella & Lizzy, their chaperone (Max's aunt) and the friends they make in London are able to set their goals, pursue and obtain them - even if it takes a little scheming and risk to get what they want. Each is a true character in their own right, and yet takes comfort in the relationship with their sisters (in the modern sense). Their story is told with a great deal of humour and style.
There has to be some sacrifice in squeezing four stories into one volume. This is firstly that Caroline and Max's is the main romance - the other three are something more than subplots and yet slightly less than a fully developed story in their own right. And finally, of course, is the improbability that all four romances should resolve themselves at the same time. To some extent this is satisfactorily dealt with by making the suitors either friends or relatives of Max. Each romance develops with a different plan of attack, and the charming thing is that although more confident than the typical deb, none of the four women are sure they will be able to hold out for marriage, as they themselves fall in love.
If you enjoy romance and the Regency genre, you will enjoy this well written example. Regular readers of Laurens will not be disappointed - I certainly wasn't.
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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This was originally printed as a Mills and Boons book. It was very funny and kept up the fun all through the book. It was a laugh from start to finish. Four original sisters trap four Regency Rakes. All are used to women falling for them but do not like hearing the word marriage. It is a book you can enjoy a second or third time as you pick up the dialogue you may have missed the first time as you were laughong so much you hurried on to find the endings of each affair. After buying this book I made sure I had all her other ones. maureen
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This is an easy and light read, albeit a tad daft (don't get me wrong, I know these books aren't meant to portray reality!) However, what had me getting cross was the morals - our heroes, all rakes and bounders, try to seduce gently bred virgins from their own social class, who, what is more, are under the protection of one of their own. I found myself wanting the girls to tell them to shove off, and not turn into limp lettuce leaves the moment one of them raises an eyebrow at them! I didn't like that one of the girls gives into the seduction, thinking she's destined to become a mistress, when he, noble soul that he is really, is intending to marry her. She didn't know when she succumbed, so in my book that was pretty rotten on his part. I also found the end ludicrous, even within the genre. Another reviewer has the right of it when they say this would have been better as a four-part series, and not crammed into one short, large font book. I didn't miss the endlessly described sex scenes from her later books, but I see she was setting one of her standards very early in her writing career - that of sex before marriage. There's a lot of it in here!
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Well-written and typically Stephanie Laurens - interesting story about four sisters all looking for husbands and finding them all together
Published 4 months ago by D. Harding
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Prefer the book to the audio
I loved this book in written form but was very disapointed with the reading of the same which I found boring and, in places, anoying which totally spoiled the story for me. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2011 by Mrs
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Wickedly amusing Regency Farce
This is one of the funniest regency romances that I have read.
Max Rotherbridge, Viscount Delmere and, quote, "the most notorious rake in London", has recently and... Read more
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Published on 22 Aug 2010 by Marshall Lord
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couldnt put it down
one of laurens earlier books and it doesnt show. the main relationship is between max rotherbridge and caroline twinning who is his ward through a twist in fate. Read more
Published on 22 July 2010 by Lindymck
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had to skim read!
I bought this book because I really enjoyed Julia Quinn's books and this book kept coming up on my recommendation page. It is not as good as one of Quinn's books. Read more
Published on 1 April 2010 by Pam Dhinsa
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Excellent regency |romance book
This author is very much along the lines of the immortal georgette heyer and has based some of her hero's and heroine's on her characters. Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2010 by joy
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romantic regency ..
Great fun and follows in Stephanie Laurens traditional style- lots of plot, lots of suppressed sexual tension , and a most satisfactory ending. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2009 by C. Bryer
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Pre-Cynster Laurens: much better writing, but flawed
Stephanie Laurens is a talented writer and also reasonably knowledgeableabout her period, but in recent years she's been wasting that talentwriting 'historical romances' which are... Read more
Published on 21 April 2004 by Dr W. Richards
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Whilst the story sounded interesting, there was no character development and the amusing scenarios were thin on the ground. Read more
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