A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

LOVERS AND LADIES

Author: Jo Beverley ISBN: 9780451223364 4/2008 HISTORICAL Publisher: SIGNET ECLIPSE
Time Period: Regency

Lovers and Ladies by Jo Beverley

New York Times bestselling author Jo Beverley presents two delectable novels together for the first time. In each story, someone seeks a spouse without thinking love important ...until his eyes and heart are opened.

THE FORTUNE HUNTER
Amy de Lacy and her brother and sisters face povertv. There is only one thing for it: One of them will have to marry money. And Amy, the falnily beauty, is the obvious choice. Amy's willing to try, even after she meets a handsome, charming young stranger. Harry Crisp might attract her, but he's not rich. Amy takes her quest to a London Season, but when she meets Harry again, she's torn between her duty and her heart.

DEIRDRE AND DON JUAN
"Don Juan," the dashing Earl of Everdon, married young and for love, but his beautiful wife ran off with another. Now newly widowed, he needs to marry and produce an heir, but this time he'll choose a woman no other man will want. He expects Lady Deirdre Stowe, a plain wallflower, to be honored, but not a bit of it. Deirdre is furious at him for ruining her plan to marry another. A promise compels her to pretend for a while, which gives the intrigued earl time to try to win the exasperating woman he has come to love.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS: 4 Rose Read

LOVERS AND LADIES compiles two previously released Regency era historical romances. The first is The Fortune Hunter. The second is Deirdre and Don Juan.

Jo Beverley is a beloved storyteller, and these two romances are sure to please fans that may have read them quite a long time ago, and fans that are just now getting the chance to discover them. For me, I cannot quite say I love The Fortune Hunter, as the heroine is simply unlikable, but I do indeed love Deirdre and Don Juan. That story has everything a historical should—romance, passion, folly, yearning—everything. I am very glad that it is included in LOVERS AND LADIES.

Well, if you have a desire to read a fine, not routine, historical romantic work, I suggest you pick up LOVERS AND LADIES.

Shannon Johnson

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