A brand new series of joyous Regency Romance from the bestselling author!When a dully dressed family arrive at Tremaine Towers , home of Cedric Marchmont, Earl of Tremaine, the other residents are shocked, thinking them some poor relations . The earl's family have been dubbed The Royals by his youngest sister Ophelia, for since unexpectedly becoming the family of an earl, they have been encouraged in every fashionable excess to fit their new position in society... moreA brand new series of joyous Regency Romance from the bestselling author!When a dully dressed family arrive at Tremaine Towers , home of Cedric Marchmont, Earl of Tremaine, the other residents are shocked, thinking them some poor relations . The earl's family have been dubbed The Royals by his youngest sister Ophelia, for since unexpectedly becoming the family of an earl, they have been encouraged in every fashionable excess to fit their new position in society. Agatha , the countess, Charles the dandified brother, Ophelia and Queenie , the sisters, must hold themselves with new dignity, says the earl. There are two further brothers in Town, Eliot and Dorian, the latter a known rake.Looking at their clothes and their behaviour, Ophelia soon dubs the new family from Scotland The Wild Marchmonts. T he family comprises the widowed Lady Eleanor Marchmont , her son Richard , her four grown daughters, Roseanna, Phoebe, Naomi and Stephanie and two younger girls, Tabitha , 12, and Berthe , only 8.As the Royals despise their dress and manners, the Wilds do not seem much disturbed. Unlike the Royals, the Wilds are an affectionate unit. It seems the two families will be forever separate in interests and understanding.But when Eliot comes home and finds Naomi's journal, he learns more about the Wilds, and the diarist's wicked observations about his own family entice him to read on. But when he later finds out Naomi's thoughts on himself, Eliot's world is overturned. But he must not succumb to Naomi's charms for he has other plans.However, Eliot's guilty pleasure is discovered , and the punishment doled out to him is such that his life will never be the same, and the wall between the families may begin to fall...A romantic comedy of manners, with both sweet and witty moments., There is the promise of wonderful brew of clean romance, that has a true understanding of passion.Early reader remarks for this I finished your wonderfully delicious book within a day of receiving it - it's one of your best! VivianIt is a little past midnight, and I am almost in tears at your most endearing novel. The ending was so very sweet. MaryPast praise for Alicia Better than prozac for depression!Miss Cameron writes re-readable works of literature.Well-researched, warm, witty and romantic, Miss Cameron does it all!I read her work again and again as a pick me up!Read or listen to an Alicia Cameron novel to brighten your day. Humorous and entertainingTouches of Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer and even Oscar Wilde ... discover the wit of Alicia Cameron!Like an old, old, movie by Preston Sturges. Screwball comedy romance.If you like Lisa Kleypas, Lucinda Brant, MC Beaton, DG Rampton, or Mary Balloch, you'll love Alicia Cameron.Regency Authors with nice things to say about Alicia Cameron Mary Ballogh , Jenny Hambly, Audrey Harrison and Jennie Goulet . Julia Quinn has yet to get in touch.One can just tell that Alicia Cameron is an author whose characters are vividly alive in her flawed, opinionated, loving, mischievous, innocent, or scheming, they are all searching for their happy endings in the treacherous world of Georgian society. They trip onto the page in Cameron's irrepressibly witty prose, ready to live just as vibrantly in the reader's imagination. So much fun. Helen Taylor, actress and narrator. less
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