![]() ![]() George and Hart see each other frequently, mainly because he wants it that way. She’s acquainted with the duke and he has “…irritated her with his cold, hard gaze, so indifferent and superior and I-rule-the-world.” The heroine, named Georgiana but called George, finds Aunt Agatha’s machinations annoying in the extreme. Anne Gracie’s Marry in Scarlet, book four in the “Marriage of Convenience” series, is a delightful romp portraying the gradual coming together of a pompous duke and a reluctant lady. Of course, this serves to pique the interest of both. ![]() ![]() She tells the Duke of Everingham, called Hart, that her niece would “…rather live with dogs and horses than marry.” Likewise, she tells her niece that the duke would never consider her for a wife, “…ill-trained, boyish, impertinent hoyden” that she is. Every good Regency romance deserves a manipulative old dowager. ![]()
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