Lady Samantha's Choic

by Olivia Fontayne

Book Overview

Heartbroken by her father's death and dismayed by the terms of his will, Lady Samantha Ashley must choose between marrying her loathsome cousin or a perfect stranger if she is to keep her inheritance.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515110817
• ISBN13: 9780515110814
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.3" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Deeply satisfying

AT first glance, a father's will that forces his daughter to marry a man of his choice or lose everything seems a hackneyed plot but Olivia Fontayne gives it a deeply satisfying play-out. Lady Samantha has never met the Marquis of Carrington and yet she must marry him or be forced into hinterland exile by her obnoxious cousin Gerald. Courageously, Samantha visits Carrington but leaves with no hope that he will agree to marry her. He does, just in time, but is shot before they can wed leading to a midnight wedding while he is on his sick bed, recovering from the wound. Needless to say, the marriage is not off to a good start and this leads to misunderstanding. But neither Samantha nor Carrington can deny their attraction and desire to make this marriage work and we are left knowing that it will. The manners and mores are true to the genre, there is humor but not silliness, and the characters read true to their era. The secondary characters are good and the subplot works and does not detract from the primary. Just a deeply satisfying read for Regency lovers. I had not previously read Fontayne but now I find myself wanting to locate and get all her books.