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The Regency Lords & Ladies Collection: Mistress or Marriage? / A Roguish Gentleman
Mistress of Marriage? by Elizabeth Rolls
To ensure the succession of the Helford family line, it's imperative that David Melville, Viscount Helford should marry - and soon! He's determined to choose a wife of nobility and decorum as a matter of convenience - until his resolve is shaken to the core by the independent and fiery Miss Marsden.
Sophie's plain beauty, forthrightness and virtually penniless state are nothing Viscount Helford desires in a wife. But she stirs a passion in him he cannot resist. The solution seems easy, but to take her as his mistress would tarnish her good name - something he knows she can't afford to lose. But can he afford to lose her?
A Roguish Gentleman by Mary Brendan
Viscount Stratton had a reputation as an adventurer and a daredevil. He also kept the most beautiful mistresses of any man in the ton. So all of London was agog with the news that Stratton suddenly planned to wed Lady Elizabeth Rowe.
Lady Elizabeth's family owed money to the viscount, and the only way to repay it was with Elizabeth's sizable dowry. But the sensible girl had no desire to wed such a rogue, even if he was handsome as sin. Everyone, Elizabeth included, wondered why Stratton had agreed to marry a lady with a dubious reputation. Was it love - or revenge?
To ensure the succession of the Helford family line, it's imperative that David Melville, Viscount Helford should marry - and soon! He's determined to choose a wife of nobility and decorum as a matter of convenience - until his resolve is shaken to the core by the independent and fiery Miss Marsden.
Sophie's plain beauty, forthrightness and virtually penniless state are nothing Viscount Helford desires in a wife. But she stirs a passion in him he cannot resist. The solution seems easy, but to take her as his mistress would tarnish her good name - something he knows she can't afford to lose. But can he afford to lose her?
A Roguish Gentleman by Mary Brendan
Viscount Stratton had a reputation as an adventurer and a daredevil. He also kept the most beautiful mistresses of any man in the ton. So all of London was agog with the news that Stratton suddenly planned to wed Lady Elizabeth Rowe.
Lady Elizabeth's family owed money to the viscount, and the only way to repay it was with Elizabeth's sizable dowry. But the sensible girl had no desire to wed such a rogue, even if he was handsome as sin. Everyone, Elizabeth included, wondered why Stratton had agreed to marry a lady with a dubious reputation. Was it love - or revenge?
- GenresRegency Romance
557 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Elizabeth Rolls
100 books123 followersWe live in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, in a beautiful lush valley full of apple, pear and cherry orchards. We moved here a couple of years back, escaping from the city and it’s just gorgeous. The property is small, only five acres, but we have room for two small noisy boys, three dogs, two cats and several woolly things masquerading a environmentally friendly lawnmowers. Before that we lived in Melbourne, which was fun, but we always wanted to live in the country and now we do.
I’ve been married to an ex-nuclear physicist – don’t ask! for the last 17 years and we have two rowdy little boys, commonly described as “feral”. Most of our friends think we have far too many animals, and everyone knows we have far too many books.I grew up moving around a fair bit. Dad was in the army and every few years we had to up sticks and move on. I was born in England, expelled from kindergarten in Melbourne, started school in Papua New Guinea and finished school in Melbourne. After taking a degree in Music Education I taught music for several years while my husband finished his Ph.D.
How I started writing
I had the writing bug from a very early age. From the time I could read I loved writing stories. Throughout my school days I was nearly always writing something very quietly, and there were several teachers who encouraged me. One student teacher, whose name I have totally forgotten, when I was in sixth grade, as well as a couple of high school English teachers, Mrs Redman and Mrs Mackay.
I started writing my first book after I finished my Masters degree. For one thing I really, really missed my thesis. I’d enjoyed researching it, and I loved writing it. So it seems inevitable now that when I was looking for something to do in the evenings to unwind after work, I started writing again.
I’d been staying with an old school friend. Meg is a fellow Georgette Heyer fan, and she had a very large collection of Regencies on her bookshelves. Well, that was an eye-opener. I’d had no idea anyone else apart from Heyer had actually written them. By the time I went home I had an idea floating around in my brain and I sat down and roughed out some sort of chapter plan. Then I started typing. Six months later I had a story with a beginning a middle and an end which I sent to Meg. After a great deal of talking, she persuaded me to send it off to Harlequin Mills & Boon. After doing the rounds of all three editorial offices and undergoing a major rewrite and extension while I was about seven months pregnant with the second small noisy boy, it was accepted for publication and published as The Unexpected Bride.
Most of my writing friends have threatened to lynch me over that story at one time or another. Personally I envy them for having learnt an enormous amount about writing and the industry before acquiring an editor who understandably expects you to know what you are doing.
I’ve been married to an ex-nuclear physicist – don’t ask! for the last 17 years and we have two rowdy little boys, commonly described as “feral”. Most of our friends think we have far too many animals, and everyone knows we have far too many books.I grew up moving around a fair bit. Dad was in the army and every few years we had to up sticks and move on. I was born in England, expelled from kindergarten in Melbourne, started school in Papua New Guinea and finished school in Melbourne. After taking a degree in Music Education I taught music for several years while my husband finished his Ph.D.
How I started writing
I had the writing bug from a very early age. From the time I could read I loved writing stories. Throughout my school days I was nearly always writing something very quietly, and there were several teachers who encouraged me. One student teacher, whose name I have totally forgotten, when I was in sixth grade, as well as a couple of high school English teachers, Mrs Redman and Mrs Mackay.
I started writing my first book after I finished my Masters degree. For one thing I really, really missed my thesis. I’d enjoyed researching it, and I loved writing it. So it seems inevitable now that when I was looking for something to do in the evenings to unwind after work, I started writing again.
I’d been staying with an old school friend. Meg is a fellow Georgette Heyer fan, and she had a very large collection of Regencies on her bookshelves. Well, that was an eye-opener. I’d had no idea anyone else apart from Heyer had actually written them. By the time I went home I had an idea floating around in my brain and I sat down and roughed out some sort of chapter plan. Then I started typing. Six months later I had a story with a beginning a middle and an end which I sent to Meg. After a great deal of talking, she persuaded me to send it off to Harlequin Mills & Boon. After doing the rounds of all three editorial offices and undergoing a major rewrite and extension while I was about seven months pregnant with the second small noisy boy, it was accepted for publication and published as The Unexpected Bride.
Most of my writing friends have threatened to lynch me over that story at one time or another. Personally I envy them for having learnt an enormous amount about writing and the industry before acquiring an editor who understandably expects you to know what you are doing.
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February 28, 2023
Збірка з двох regency romances, не дуже видатних.
Mistress or Marriage?: новоспеченому віконту треба женитись, бо спадкоємців би, в нього травма від кохання до негідної, тому робимо розрахунок на високородних дам з закопиленою губою. Але тут доводиться рятувати гучномовну дівицю, та хоч з пристойної родини, однак не рівня, і взагалі. Передбачувано, смалять хіба небіж героя і небога героїні, які влаштовують то пацюка нареченій під ліжко, то ще яку шкоду.
A Roguish Gentleman: бабуся дуже хоче видати заміж внучку, яка через трохи несправну репутацію засиділася до тридцяти в дівицях (horror!), і провертає сумнівну фінансову оборудку зі знайомим графом, щоб той отримав заборговане приданим онуки, ну й її руку на додачу. Одразу всі, звичайно, проти, але потім нестримна сила кохання їх заборола, і вони ще й відкрили благодійний фонд. За останнє хвалю, але як завжди, нестримної сили забагато.
Mistress or Marriage?: новоспеченому віконту треба женитись, бо спадкоємців би, в нього травма від кохання до негідної, тому робимо розрахунок на високородних дам з закопиленою губою. Але тут доводиться рятувати гучномовну дівицю, та хоч з пристойної родини, однак не рівня, і взагалі. Передбачувано, смалять хіба небіж героя і небога героїні, які влаштовують то пацюка нареченій під ліжко, то ще яку шкоду.
A Roguish Gentleman: бабуся дуже хоче видати заміж внучку, яка через трохи несправну репутацію засиділася до тридцяти в дівицях (horror!), і провертає сумнівну фінансову оборудку зі знайомим графом, щоб той отримав заборговане приданим онуки, ну й її руку на додачу. Одразу всі, звичайно, проти, але потім нестримна сила кохання їх заборола, і вони ще й відкрили благодійний фонд. За останнє хвалю, але як завжди, нестримної сили забагато.
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