The Marquess She Loved

The Atwood Sisters, Book 2

By: Jessie Clever

Narrated by: Bridget Thomas

Lady Adaline Atwood is the most beautiful wallflower in London. Cursed with beauty but no dowry, she has remained on the fringes of every ball for the four seasons she’s been out. It needn’t matter though as she has loved her best friend, Ashfield Riggs, since she can remember. The problem is Ash only has eyes for another.

The son of a judge, Ash is relegated to the lowest rung of genteel society until he unexpectedly inherits the title of Marquess of Aylesford. Determined to find a wife now that he’s a titled gentleman, he sets his cap for the only woman he’s ever sought: Lady Valerie Lattimer. Falsely believing he is now worthy of her hand, he proposes marriage only to be shot down in the most humiliating way. Wounded, he turns to his best friend, Adaline, only to discover she has been the sensible choice for a wife all along.

But when the demands of the impoverished estate require him to accept help from his wife, the forced closeness turns their arranged marriage into something more and ignites a desire he never expected.

The Marquess She Loved is the second book in the steamy, heart-stopping historical romance series, The Atwood Sisters. If you love sexy, spellbinding romance and heartwarming humor, don’t miss this captivating series from best-selling author Jessie Clever. Discover adventure and romance when you download The Marquess She Loved today.

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I do love the way the story mixes around itself, plus I love the humor.

Funny way to get around the story with all the emotions people can get. Not just another love story. ❤️

Blah!

Through almost the whole book and still no physical reality of the love she had for him.

Psych-babble

Not my kind of romance. I like confident heroes even when they get things wrong. They always do. But poor Ash has no confidence, rejected by the girl he thought he loved, then not really interested in the heroine. All the characters have mean unloving parents. Then at the end Ash must humble himself even more to regain love. It could be these are the hero’s that sell. I’m new to the genre. I like characters with a lot of untold back story. One might figure them out or one might not but it is their consistency in different crises that explains them not a therapy session. Not in regency England. I think if it were a modern romance I might tolerate it. But I will acknowledge the writer writes much better than I could, and it could be the fashion is for weak men with low self esteem’. One other thing, if Ash demonstrated some ability in just one thing. I thought Georgette Heyer, did it pretty well when she made a hero something of a lame brain in cotillion, But despite his weak mind was able to solve all the problems the heroine and others confronted.