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Lady Lavinias Match
From Friends to Lovers
When their parents married, James, Earl of Corringham, and Lady Lavinia Stanmore became as close as brother and sister. Now, years later, James has outgrown his rakish ways and is burning with a love for her that he longs to reveal.
However, he faces a rival in the mysterious Lord Wincote. Torn between James and the handsome stranger, Lavinia’s feelings are thrown into turmoil. But is this man really what he seems? The more Lord Wincote persists, the more Lavinia wonders if she should be looking for love a little closer to home….
When their parents married, James, Earl of Corringham, and Lady Lavinia Stanmore became as close as brother and sister. Now, years later, James has outgrown his rakish ways and is burning with a love for her that he longs to reveal.
However, he faces a rival in the mysterious Lord Wincote. Torn between James and the handsome stranger, Lavinia’s feelings are thrown into turmoil. But is this man really what he seems? The more Lord Wincote persists, the more Lavinia wonders if she should be looking for love a little closer to home….
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First published December 1, 2002
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Mary Nichols
176 books44 followersBorn in Singapore to a Dutch-South African father and an English mother, Mary Nichols came to England when she was three and considers herself totally English. Her father, like many people who learn English as a second language, would have no sloppiness, either spoken or written, and Mary puts her love of the language down to him. He was also a great reader and there were always books in the house so that Mary learned to read at a very early age. She read anything that came to hand, whether it was suitable or not! By the time she was nine or ten, her one ambition was to be a writer.
Her first novel, handwritten in several school exercise books, was completed when she was fifteen. Not having any idea of how to go about finding a publisher, she wrapped it up and sent it to the editor of the woman's monthly magazine to which her mother subscribed. It says a great deal for that editor that she took the trouble to read it and sent Mary a long and very encouraging letter, which put her ambition into overdrive.
Finishing her education and finding a job took over in the next few years, followed by an early marriage and a family. When her children were all at school she joined her local writers' circle. Publication of articles and stories in a variety of periodicals and magazines followed, but the ambition to be a novelist never wavered and throughout the time she was writing and selling short pieces she was working on her novels.
Mary joined the Romantic Novelists Association in the 1960s. Her first novel was a contemporary one published by Robert Hale in 1981 and that was followed by nine more. Mary sent her first historical romance to Mills and Boon in 1985 and was delighted when a telephone call three weeks later told her it had been accepted. Since then she has been a regular writer for the historical series. Among these is a miniseries about a group of gentleman in the mid-eighteenth century who form a club to track down criminals, a sort of private detective agency, which naturally leads each of them into romance.
She is also the author of family sagas, published by Allison and Busby. She has also written a biography of her grandmother, entitled The Mother of Necton, who was the midwife and nurse in the village of Necton in Norfolk from 1910 until the advent of the National Health Service in 1948.
Apart from when her children were small, Mary always had a 'day job', being a school secretary, an editor of a house journal and an information manager for a database of open learning courses. Now writing full time, Mary spends part of every day at her computer producing her novels and divides the rest of the time between reading and research and gardening. Occasionally she gives talks about her writing to groups and societies. “Writing for me is an addiction,” Mary says. “I am not happy if I haven't got a book on the go and if my readers enjoy what I have written, then that is an added bonus.”
Her first novel, handwritten in several school exercise books, was completed when she was fifteen. Not having any idea of how to go about finding a publisher, she wrapped it up and sent it to the editor of the woman's monthly magazine to which her mother subscribed. It says a great deal for that editor that she took the trouble to read it and sent Mary a long and very encouraging letter, which put her ambition into overdrive.
Finishing her education and finding a job took over in the next few years, followed by an early marriage and a family. When her children were all at school she joined her local writers' circle. Publication of articles and stories in a variety of periodicals and magazines followed, but the ambition to be a novelist never wavered and throughout the time she was writing and selling short pieces she was working on her novels.
Mary joined the Romantic Novelists Association in the 1960s. Her first novel was a contemporary one published by Robert Hale in 1981 and that was followed by nine more. Mary sent her first historical romance to Mills and Boon in 1985 and was delighted when a telephone call three weeks later told her it had been accepted. Since then she has been a regular writer for the historical series. Among these is a miniseries about a group of gentleman in the mid-eighteenth century who form a club to track down criminals, a sort of private detective agency, which naturally leads each of them into romance.
She is also the author of family sagas, published by Allison and Busby. She has also written a biography of her grandmother, entitled The Mother of Necton, who was the midwife and nurse in the village of Necton in Norfolk from 1910 until the advent of the National Health Service in 1948.
Apart from when her children were small, Mary always had a 'day job', being a school secretary, an editor of a house journal and an information manager for a database of open learning courses. Now writing full time, Mary spends part of every day at her computer producing her novels and divides the rest of the time between reading and research and gardening. Occasionally she gives talks about her writing to groups and societies. “Writing for me is an addiction,” Mary says. “I am not happy if I haven't got a book on the go and if my readers enjoy what I have written, then that is an added bonus.”
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June 23, 2017
Me ha gustado muchísimo, y debo reconocer que no empecé el libro con estas expectativas, por lo que la sorpresa ha sido doble (y mi autotirón de orejas por dar por sentadas las cosas, también).
Me he encontrado con una trama super blanca (las adoro) y una prosa sencilla, accesible, ligera. Y no me ha disgustado. A veces apetece sumergirse en una historia por el simple placer de disfrutar, de entretenerse, de evadirse unas horas...; y para ello no siempre es necesario encontrar una prosa rebuscada o florida o una trama de lo más intrigante. A veces apetece algo cómodo, bien escrito, bien narrado, bien documentado, pero sencillo.
Mucho diálogo, lo que agilizó la lectura; y dichos diálogos eran divertidos, originales, y chispeantes, dados los caracteres de los personajes principales, pues entre ellos existía una familiaridad y una confianza previas que fomentaban dicha intimidad.
Me ha encantado que se tratara tan de cerca un tema histórico como fue la coronación de Jorge IV y los problemas con su esposa Caroline. Me gustó también que en un momento dado se comparara a uno de los personajes principales con lord Byron.
Ha habido pinceladas que me recordaron a las obras de Austen, lo cual siempre es un placer, y frases para guardar en el recuerdo, de tan bonitas y poéticas.
Lo recomiendo, a mí sinceramente me ha encantado.
Me he encontrado con una trama super blanca (las adoro) y una prosa sencilla, accesible, ligera. Y no me ha disgustado. A veces apetece sumergirse en una historia por el simple placer de disfrutar, de entretenerse, de evadirse unas horas...; y para ello no siempre es necesario encontrar una prosa rebuscada o florida o una trama de lo más intrigante. A veces apetece algo cómodo, bien escrito, bien narrado, bien documentado, pero sencillo.
Mucho diálogo, lo que agilizó la lectura; y dichos diálogos eran divertidos, originales, y chispeantes, dados los caracteres de los personajes principales, pues entre ellos existía una familiaridad y una confianza previas que fomentaban dicha intimidad.
Me ha encantado que se tratara tan de cerca un tema histórico como fue la coronación de Jorge IV y los problemas con su esposa Caroline. Me gustó también que en un momento dado se comparara a uno de los personajes principales con lord Byron.
Ha habido pinceladas que me recordaron a las obras de Austen, lo cual siempre es un placer, y frases para guardar en el recuerdo, de tan bonitas y poéticas.
Lo recomiendo, a mí sinceramente me ha encantado.
July 4, 2025
charming
initially convinced this was an an Emma rewrite, delighted to be disproved.
it's own, unique tale with a little play acting, skull-duggery, and some surprises.
Set in early regency England.
I enjoyed it, simple clean romance.
initially convinced this was an an Emma rewrite, delighted to be disproved.
it's own, unique tale with a little play acting, skull-duggery, and some surprises.
Set in early regency England.
I enjoyed it, simple clean romance.
April 2, 2018
So boring. A race between slugs would be more interesting. =___=
June 5, 2022
Molto carino e dolce. Il loro tira e molla e le interferenze. James troppo carino, l’ho amato da subito. È bello, ogni tanto, leggere questi libri leggeri e semplici
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July 24, 2017
normalito
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