A Country Miss

by Emily Hendrickson

CAMPAIGN OF CONQUEST

Miss Charity Lonsbury's love for the handsome Marquess of Kenrick seemed utter folly.

Charity was poor as a church mouse, Kenrick was rich as Croesus. Charity was unschooled in the ways of the world, Kenrick moved in the most sophisticated circles. Charity dressed in a dismally dowdy manner, while Kenrick was being stalked by the fashionable and stunning Lady Sylvia.

To capture Kenrick, Charity had to transform herself from a shy country Miss to the toast of the town and she had but one swift week to do it. It was quite impossible, of course--yet when Cupid's arrow provides the spur, and an unconventional aunt provides the means, impossible dreams can sometimes come true....

Genres: Regency Romance, Regency, Historical Romance

1 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1988

About the author

Doris Emily Hendrickson lives in Reno, Nevada, with her husband, a retired airline pilot. Of all the many places she has traveled around the world, England is her favorite, and the most natural choice as the setting for her novels. In addition to her Regency romances, she has written a Regency Reference Book.

She is also the recipient of the Romantic Times award for the Best Regency of 1993 for Elizabeth's Rake and the Colorado Romance Writers 1997 Award of Excellence for The Debonair Duke. She is a nominee for the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Regency Romance.

Emily also enjoys stamps and stamping, and several of her flower designs, originally created for bookmarks for her Regencies, have been made into stamps.

Many of my books were re-published in England by Robert Hale Publishing House of London. My publisher requested that I use three pseudonyms for my English hard cover books. I chose the names: Emily Hendrickson, Emily Johnson, and Emily Harland.

Reviews

[SM · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
Ending was abrupt.

[Anne Patkau · Rating 3 out of 5]

Flutter-eyed Charity grows orchids for sale in glass house owned by blue-eyed Lord, David engaged to selfish Sylvia. Girls only want him.Typos:6.13 mariners IS manners 12.25 shock IS shook 14.10 riot IS not 14.22 express IS expression

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Charity loves the marquess but he is out of reach of her. When she overhears a conversation her aunt has with him to try to find her a man to marry and he speaks of her country manners in need of refinement charity is determined to hate him! The Marquess has a woman he thought he wanted to propose to but the more time he spends with Charity the more confused he gets. Competition doesn't bode well and could cost Charity her obsession with growing orchids and get her engaged to the wrong man. A cute story.

[Olivia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not quite sure why I didn't like this as much. I liked the exotic flowers theme, but the story just didn't resonate with me. I think both the hero and heroine seem limpid and weak. At the end, the reader knew who the villian was, but not the hero/heroine.

[LemontreeLime · Rating 3 out of 5]

Forgot I had read this years ago, can't remember when. Meet-cute enough (or maybe bizarre enough, as it involves a flung flowerpot and a pet rabbit) to merit a reread.

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

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