The Convenient Marriage is an intensely silly book, in which the headstrong 17-year-old Horatia decides to pursue a marriage of convenience with the much older Earl of Rule, sparing her older sister the obligation of marrying someone she doesn’t love in order to rescue her respectable family from their brother’s gambling debts. As for me, I tried her books for the first time just last year, and found them awfully fun, if a bit overly obsessed with fashion, hair styles, and all things upper class. I know a bunch of readers and bloggers who are absolutely devoted to her works. Georgette Heyer’s books may be something of an acquired taste. Overcoming some misguided help from Horatia’s harebrained brother and a hired highwayman, the Earl routs his old enemy, and wins over his young wife, gifting her with a love that she never thought she could expect. There’s simply no way he’s going to let her get into trouble. The Earl of Rule has found just the wife he wants, unbeknownst to Horatia, the Earl is enchanted by her.
But was it too late, now that she was but a heartbeat away from betraying both him and herself? And then, Sir Robert, sets out to ruin her reputation… Not until Horatia was deep in dangerous intrigue with her husband’s vengeful rival, the dashing and arrogant Lord Lethbridge, did she suddenly find - to her own tremulous surprise - she had fallen deeply in love with the man she had married for money. Everyone knows she’s no beauty, but she’ll do her best to keep out of the Earl’s way and make him a good wife.
Hers was a marriage made not in heaven but in the coolly logical mind of a very self-possessed young lady. When Horatia married the powerful Earl of Rule, she was only saving her sister from a loveless match, rescuing her family fortune, and providing herself with a life of ease. Lizzie’s sister Horatia conceives a dazzling plan to avert a nuptial disaster, and offers herself instead. Miss Lizzie Winwood is promised to the impoverished Edward Heron but the Earl of Rule wants her as his wife. When the most eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended.
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