The Ransome Inheritance

by Rachelle Edwards

When a series of misfortunes results in Jenna Tregail being thrown into Newgate Prison, Gerald Fordyce and his mother are willing to rescue her if she is prepared to masquerade as the long-lost heiress, Annabel Ransome. But it comes as a shock when Jenna learns she would be obliged to marry Gerald. The knowledge repels her even more when she becomes attracted to the dashing Major Charles Hollingdale, who has returned from the Peninsular Wars to meet his long-lost cousin.

Genres: Regency

156 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Brenda Castle
aka
Georgina Ferrand and Rachelle Edwards

Reviews

[Donnalee · Rating 1 out of 5]

Super-unpleasant: hayseed nice young girl, too young to function safely beyond her own backyard, goes to London to make her fortune, gets scooped up by madam within five minutes of arrival and sent to dude's house whom she kills or almost-kills in first five minutes of that when he tries to rape her. YUCK. Then she winds up in Newgate Prison, A Bad Place, and somebody thinks they can use her to fake someone else out of an inheritance so they buy her from prison illegally and blahblah to force to do unethical and illegal stuff. YUCK completely. It just felt crappy and uneasy and like she was helplessly screwed from the word go, so I ditched it. This author seems really uneven in tone of books, some of which I liked and many of which I disliked.

[Vana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a spark in this one.