A
Detestable Name
by
Arabella Brown
Genre:
Chaste Regency Romance
Pitchforked into the title by his brother’s death, the new Lord Newsam arrives at the grim family home in Yorkshire to face daunting challenges. His peevish, self-absorbed mother despises him. The servants are insubordinate. He hardly knows his sisters, for whom he’s expected to find husbands. The estate is ill-run and unprofitable, and the bailiff obstructive. And in the midst of all this, he must find a wife for himself – but the only woman he wants won’t have him.To widowed, impoverished Mary Thorpe, the very name of Newsam is detestable: his brother drove her husband to suicide and made her a social outcast. But Lord Newsam insists on rescuing her from penury. The shocking realisation that she is falling in love with him in spite of herself makes her situation even more complicated. How can she let him ruin his own family’s reputation by marrying her? There seems to be no solution – until every objection is swept away by a ball nobody wants to attend and a startling discovery on their return.
Although she now lives in the U.K., Arabella Brown grew up in a small U.S. town. She spent most of her youth in the local Carnegie Public Library (thank you, Mr. Carnegie!), where she learned that intensive reading does more to broaden your horizons than school does. She still reads voraciously and her house is lined with thousands of books. Despite her emphasis on meticulous research, it’s the plot and the characters she particularly loves to create. She enjoys Jane Austen’s and Georgette Heyer’s novels and wishes there were more of them.Under another name, Ms Brown has published a number of novels set in periods ranging from the 12th century to the 1960’s. This is her first Regency.
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Chaste made me pause - not a word you see around much. I like the cover.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this input. I've been feeling unhappy with the word myself, though it's accurate. I'm wondering if "light-hearted", "witty", or something along those lines would be better. I'd love to hear from you. Can you find me on FB? Thank you. Arabella Brown
DeleteThe cover makes me ready to escape to the past.
ReplyDeleteThank you! The cover has a whole saga behind it, so I'm glad it was worthwhile. Arabella Brown
DeleteGreat cover, sounds like a good book!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the compliment! Read it and find out - I hope you like the characters. Arabella Brown
DeleteThanks for hosting. Looks good.
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