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LOVERS AND LADIES
Jo Beverly
Signet Eclipse
April 2008
ISBN 978-0-451-22336-4
10:0-451-22336-5
Historical Romance
LOVERS AND LADIES in a two-in-one volume including
THE FORTUNE HUNTER and
DEIRDRE AND DON JUAN, two classic traditional Regencies
by the incomparable Jo Beverley. DEIRDRE AND DON JUAN
won the Romance Writers of America's RITA award for Best
Regency Romance in 1994. These two classic gems pursue a
favorite theme of Beverley's--beauty or the lack of it
and how it impacts on character and the people and world
around them.
THE FORTUNE HUNTER is Miss Amy de Lacy who must find a
wealthy husband to help her impoverished family and
estate, aided only by her ravishing beauty. Hoping to
snare a wealthy local newly arrived in the district, Amy
meets instead Harry Crisp who has a title and moderate
means, but not enough to do all that Amy desperately
wants done for her family...once in London for the
Season, Amy diligently sets about to snare an older
wealthy suitor while her heart yearns for Harry...should
she sacrifice herself for the good of her family in a
loveless marriage...or is there a way to follow her
heart?
In DEIRDRE AND DON JUAN, the handsome, woman-loving Earl
of Everdon must seek a new bride, and quickly, after his
estranged wife dies. He does not want to jump through
the hoops of the Marriage Mart, thus he decides to
choose a wife without considering love and any such
emotional involvement--things that lead him to his first
wife when a very young man--which resulted in heartbreak
when she betrayed his love and ran off with someone
else. Now he decides to woo and win a plain young woman,
a friend of his mother's. But something happens as he
sets his sights on the very plain and ordinary Deirdre
Stowe--she does not welcome his suit and claims to be in
love with another--a first for the gorgeous Everdon
whose beauty has always won him what he wanted. As
Everdon tries to convince Deirdre that he is the man for
her, the inexplicable happens and Everdon's heart's
involved, and now more than ever he must convince
Deirdre to marry him...
LOVERS AND LADIES is a must for every historical romance
fan's keeper shelf!
Reviewed by Debora Hosey
Rating: 4 1/2 |
