Captain Langthorne's Proposal

by Elizabeth Beacon

At twenty-four, Lady Serena Summerton puts herself firmly back on the shelf--this time for good! Her abusive first marriage was an utter disaster, and she's determined never to marry again.

Captain Adam Langthorne remembers Serena as a wild little thing. Now back from France, this courageous captain is enchanted with the beautiful woman she has become.

Putting aside his rakish ways, the dashing Captain Langthorne resolves to tempt, entice or, if he has to, drag Lady Serena into having a second season. His plan is to sweep her off her feet until she accepts his proposal...of marriage!

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Regency

215 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

ELIZABETH BEACON lives in the beautiful English West Country, and is finally putting her insatiable curiosity about the past to good use. Over the years Elizabeth has worked in her family’s horticultural business, become a mature student, qualified as an English teacher, worked as a secretary and, briefly, tried to be a civil servant. She is now happily ensconced behind her computer, when not trying to exhaust her bouncy rescue dog with as many walks as the Inexhaustible Lurcher can finagle. Elizabeth can’t bring herself to call researching the wonderfully diverse, scandalous Regency period and creating charismatic heroes and feisty heroines work, and she is waiting for someone to find out how much fun she is having and tell her to stop it.

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Barely a 2 star read but since I did finish it, I have to admit it held my attention that long. The newer, "hawter" Regencies are no improvement, imo, if all that changes are the introduction of totally unbelievable sexual interludes ... with the heroine still saying she can't/won't/shouldn't/wouldn't marry the hero. Give me a break.

I would read Elizabeth Beacon again ... but a book, please, that doesn't throw it all at the wall: revenge, secrets, abusive former marriage.

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

It stated slow and choppy but picked up the pace nicely. Even though Serena was attracted to her friend's broth Captain Langthorne, her first marriage was a abusive one. Cute story about second chances.

[S Walker · Rating 3 out of 5]

2-3 stars, light reading

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was quite hard to get through and I wasn’t enthralled by the writing style. The tension-filled scenes were the ones done best and I liked the characters.

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read. The heroine had a bad marriage and doesn't want to risk it again. The hero is her best friend's brother back from the war (but apparently quite unaffected by it) who is determined to change her mind. There is a mystery involving a tomb in the local churchyard, which is solved early on in the story, but the bad guy gets away so there's a little subplot about that weaving through the rest of the very nice little story. I liked it.

[Carrie Olguin · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF.

The heroine argues with the hero for no reason, even as she lusts over his body and moons ofer her past infatuation for him. She's not a nice person, certainly no one I want to spend any time with.

Moving on to another book with likable characters.