Marie
Marie
Confounding the Earl
(Courting a Curious Lady: Book 2)
by Lexi Post
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He made her successful. So why does he feel like he’s failed?
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Lady Dorothea Ansley knows she baffles her mother and annoys her father with her prattle. Luckily, her fellow Curious Ladies are patient with her and great company during the season. But the season is coming to a close, and she is still without an offer of marriage. She needs a proposal quickly before her mother’s wandering eye causes a scandal and all chances of marriage disappear. As she stands alone at the final ball, she unwittingly catches the attention of Lord Harewood, but in a very different way than she expects.
Lord Felton Ambrose is quite good at predicting what will occur next whether it be in parliament or the next couple to be betrothed, but he never would have predicted Lady Dorothea’s conversation at the season’s final fete would be of any interest to him in the least. Curious if the moment was simply a serendipitous occurrence, he ensures that she’s invited to his family’s upcoming house party. She is the perfect lady for whom to find a suitor and achieve his goal of improving the reputation of the Belinda School for Curious Ladies to best honor the woman after which it was named.
Though his social experiment is a success and multiple men become enamored of Lady Dorothea, he is not at all happy. The lady has changed according to his sage advice, and she has taught him a few lessons on happiness in the process. By all rights, he should be basking in the glow of a goal reached, a victory hard won, but for the first time in his life, he fears he may, just possibly, have been wrong. Has he done the greatest disservice to Lady Dorothea, to the school, and to himself? More importantly, will he be too late to rectify his mistake?
Lexi Post is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of romance inspired by the classics. She spent years in higher education taking and teaching courses about the classical literature she loved. From Edgar Allan Poe's short story “The Masque of the Red Death” to Tolstoy’s War and Peace, she's read, studied, and taught wonderful classics.
But Lexi's first love is romance novels so she married her two first loves, romance and the classics. Whether it’s sizzling cowboys, dashing dukes, hot immortals, or hunks from out of this world, Lexi provides a sensuous experience with a “whole lotta story.”
Lexi is living her own happily ever after with her husband and her two cats in Florida. She makes her own ice cream every weekend, loves bright colors, and you’ll never see her without a hat.
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Strike and Robin have extreme feelings for one another, but there are always too many barriers. One or another is dating someone else, work, timing, work, admittance, work, and anything else that can keep them from admitting their feelings at the same time.
The current case involves parents of Will who hire Strike and Robin to get him out of what they consider a religious cult. Robin demands she go undercover to infiltrate the religious camp.
More dangerous than expected, Strike keeps his promise to Robin, no matter how much it aggravates him, to update her boyfriend on her wellbeing. Strike insists to himself that he'd be better at keeping Robin happy, but he hasn't found the right moment to reveal to Robin his thoughts. He shouldn't, but he might.
Robin likes her boyfriend, but in times of danger and being exhausted on the low rations at the camp and scared at the same time, she first thinks of Strike.
They have no idea of the deeply guarded romantic feelings they share.
The investigation keeps them from diving into their true feelings, but rather urgent on saving Will from his certain demise at the hands of the cult.
Strike and Robin both admit to themselves who they want in their life, but can they find a way to express their growing love? Or is the case the only thing they solve?
Each installment of the series brings love a touch closer, yet when will love be the final mystery solved?
Happy reading,
Dawn
A memoir with romantic elements will touch all your hearts for animals and love between people.
James Herriot, newly graduated from veterinary school in the early 1900's, finds a local Yorkshire veterinarian to work with. School is nothing like real life and most of his experiences can only be taught by doing.
Working in the English countryside, enduring the rain, winds, and snow, the farm animals are loved and in need of care. This leaves James little time for a young woman he has his eye on when her father's stock needs attention.
James doesn't enjoy a cow or sheep needing his care, but he feels a different type of adrenalin when visiting Helen's farm. Pushing himself to get the nerve to ask her for a date, it doesn't end well. Neither does his next attempt on another lass.
Maybe he's only comfortable around the animals whose heart he knows how to mend.
Yet, he doesn't give up. Slow but steadfast, he finds a way to interest Helen in another outing. And then another. Love blooms in the spring!
Happy reading,
Dawn
Marie
I had to dive into a witchy book before the season because I love them! I'm sure I'll have more for you this fall.
Emmaline Bluewater has left her witch family of her own accords. Chicago offers her a new family of friends, including her mixed mutt familiar, a suave bar named Toil and Trouble, and purposefully not using magic- most of the time.
Contracted to marry Bastian Truenote in order to bring hierarchy to her family, Emma wanted OUT after he left without a word, note, or any explanation. That's when she found her new and very pleasing lifestyle owning a bar and running her own life without her meddling mother.
Always the cavalier and carefree warlock, Bastian left for Egypt and any other location he fancied immediately before the marriage was to take place to Emma, his BFF in childhood.
They both didn't know why he left, avoiding the nuptials.
Curses and hexes played a part in both their naivete of the sudden change in course, but Bastian came back. He had to marry Emma to save his mother.
And the story gets more tangled on who threw the last spell, how to undo them, and who's to really blame in the game of love and marriage.
Choose this romcom as your start to the witchy season only a few short weeks away!
Spooky reading,
Dawn