A Marquess on a mission to secure a piece of land and the stubborn widow who owns it find themselves battling wills and surrendering to passion in this lively historical romance. After conventional means fail, Sebastian, Marquess of St. Just, takes reckless measures to secure the crumbling monstrosity known as Trembledown - a haven for local smugglers and moonlighting spies. He plans to scare, not seduce, its owner, but when a midnight encounter leaves them soaked, stranded, and possessing just one blanket for warmth, Sebastian, a.k.a. Robert the Brute, discovers that the widow Violet Treacher is not only wilful and unafraid, she is maddeningly desirable...Though the wilds of Cornwall hold no allure, Violet won't give the arrogant Marquess the satisfaction of a sale, so here she shivers, in a wreck of a house, with lips still burning from the passion of a masked smuggler. She knows he's near - for her own bit of real estate is quite the magnet for secrets, danger, even treachery. But how will she recognize the gentleman by day...with only the memory of his kiss in the dark?
My Favorite Marquess
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Nice happy ending, and an easy read. Love reading about the etiquette of those days and the picture of London and surrounds it paints
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Humour and romance!
20 Nov 2008
By Lisa A. Malmquist
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I have to remark on something that the review has completely missed-the humour of the story is really well written and clever.Sometimes it made me laugh out loud!
Anyway, onto the story, Violet Treacher is a young recent widow on her way to wild Cornwall. She goes to claim the house that her deceased husband"s family has left her. Her Neighbor, the Marquess St Just has offered to purchase the house in order to cover for his clandestine spy activities for the English crown. His idea is to kidnap her in the guise of a smuggler, which starts a whole tangle of identities and humourous incidents. Violet finally sees the run-down house she's been given and almost high tails it straight back to London. A battle of wits and funny incidents ensues. The secondary characters add another touch of humour and mayhem! There is the Butler, Peabody, who is more snobby than the nobility, constantly worried about position and appearances. Henny, a spinster cousin of Violet, who gets involved in a secondary love story.
All in all the characters give an amusing take on the class society while entertaining as you go along. Honestly, yes its formulaic but so is just about every romance I've read, that's a good thing! A bit of very amusing escapism at its best!
To be fair, I wanted anyone who might look at this book to get another opinion and a bit more info than the reviews provide. Because I think its an excellent light, humourous romance and those are hard to find!
Anyway, onto the story, Violet Treacher is a young recent widow on her way to wild Cornwall. She goes to claim the house that her deceased husband"s family has left her. Her Neighbor, the Marquess St Just has offered to purchase the house in order to cover for his clandestine spy activities for the English crown. His idea is to kidnap her in the guise of a smuggler, which starts a whole tangle of identities and humourous incidents. Violet finally sees the run-down house she's been given and almost high tails it straight back to London. A battle of wits and funny incidents ensues. The secondary characters add another touch of humour and mayhem! There is the Butler, Peabody, who is more snobby than the nobility, constantly worried about position and appearances. Henny, a spinster cousin of Violet, who gets involved in a secondary love story.
All in all the characters give an amusing take on the class society while entertaining as you go along. Honestly, yes its formulaic but so is just about every romance I've read, that's a good thing! A bit of very amusing escapism at its best!
To be fair, I wanted anyone who might look at this book to get another opinion and a bit more info than the reviews provide. Because I think its an excellent light, humourous romance and those are hard to find!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very amusing light hearted romance
12 Feb 2009
By LoveMyBooks
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This was the first novel I've read by this author and I'll try to read her other books as well. The book made me laugh out loud so many times. The writing was very humorous and the characters very interesting. Actually the hero's character was more bland than that of the secondary characters, but I don't read a book just for the sake of interesting heroes & heroines. The butler was very funny and so were Violet's family & friends. Overall, I found it a very lighthearted and funny regency romance, with the emphasis on lighthearted. The end was formulaic. But overall a satisfying read.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting for about half the book
16 Jun 2011
By Shannon Boyer
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I found the story interesting during the first half of the book but I could not get into the heroine. Violet comes off as a selfish brat who lacked any sort of charm. Her one redeeming quality was her beauty and apparently her stubbornness. The one character that was truly enjoyable was the Marquess. Also, I would highly recommend that the author fire whoever was her proofreader. There were numerous grammatical errors, that I would not expect to find in a published book and at some parts the story had serious plot falls. I do not regret reading it but I will probably not ready anymore of her books.
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