Someone to Romance - Mary Balogh

Written by Mary Balogh
Read by Rosalyn Landor
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Westcott Series, Book 8
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Release date: August 25, 2020
Duration: 11:24:34

Love comes when you least expect it…

Lady Jessica Archer lost her own interest in the glittering excitement of romance after her cousin and dearest friend Abigail Westcott was rejected by the ton when her father was revealed to be a bigamist.

Ever practical, however, once she’s twenty-five, she decides it’s time to wed.

Though she no longer believes she will find true love, she is still very eligible. She is, after all, the sister of Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby. Jessica considers the many qualified gentlemen who court her. But when she meets the mysterious Gabriel Thorne, who has returned to England from the New World to claim an equally mysterious inheritance, Jessica considers him completely unsuitable because he had the audacity, when he first met her, to announce his intention to wed her. When Jessica guesses who Gabriel really is, however, and watches the lengths to which he will go in order to protect those who rely upon him, she is drawn to his cause—and to the man.

Publishers Weekly….The reluctant heir to an earldom discovers love with the sister of a duke in the pitch-perfect eighth romance of Balogh’s Westcott Regency series. At the “old” age of 25, Jessica Archer, sister of the Duke of Netherby, decides the time has come to find a husband—despite not being enamored with any of the men she’s met during the London season. Then Gabriel Thorne, a British nobleman who fled England 13 years ago to become a successful Boston merchant, returns to town and boldly declares his intention to marry her. At the same time, the handsome Anthony Rochford, a man who anticipates inheriting the title of Earl of Lyndale, begins courting Jessica. . Balogh masterfully pulls back her characters’ aristocratic facades to delve deep into their personalities. The riveting, fast-paced narrative contains just enough intrigue to keep the pages flying. Regency fans will be delighted.

Narrator Rosalyn Landor sweeps listeners back to England in the 1800s. … Landor has listeners feeling like they’re there. Lady Jessica’s delight at realizing she’s falling in love with Thorne is palpable. There are a few bumps along the road to their happy ending, of course, but through Landor’s lively narration, listeners will enjoy the journey……AudioFile 2020