BooksChatter: ☀ When a Marquis Chooses a Bride: The Worthingtons [2]

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

☀ When a Marquis Chooses a Bride: The Worthingtons [2] - Ella Quinn

Thank you for joining us on the Release Day Celebrations for When a Marquis Chooses a Bride, a Regency Historical Romance by Ella Quinn (30 August 2016, Zebra Shout, 320 pages).

This is the second book in The Worthingtons series.

PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and excerpt below. Read the first two chapters with Kobo Preview.

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Synopsis

Thanks to their large extended family and unconventional courtship, The Worthingtons have seen their share of scandal and excitement. But nothing has prepared them for this...

The Dowager Lady Worthington isn’t quite sure what to make of country-girl Dorothea Stern. As the granddaughter of the Duke of Bristol, Dotty is schooled in the ways and means of the nobility. But her sharp wit and outspoken nature has everyone in a tizzy. Especially their cousin, Dominic, the Marquis of Merton.

Prematurely stuffy, Dom was raised by his cheerless uncle to be wary of a host of things, including innovation, waltzing, and most perilous of all: true love. Still, there’s something about Dotty, beyond her beauty, that Dom cannot resist. But the odds are against him if he intends to win her as his bride. Will he choose loyalty to his family—or risk everything for the one woman he believes is his perfect match…

Teaser: Excerpt

     “Kimbal,” Dom called to his valet.
     “Yes, my lord.”
     “I shall be dining at White’s.”
     “Yes, my lord.”
     Dom scribbled a note to his friend Viscount Fotherby asking if he would like to join Dom for dinner. By the time he was dressed and had donned his hat, Fotherby’s answer affirming the invitation had arrived.
     A short while later, just as a light sprinkle turned into a persistent rain, Dom handed his hat and cane to the footman at White’s and found his friend lounging in the room that held the club’s famous betting book. William Alvanley, another of Dom’s friends, was seated next to the window with another man staring intently at the rain.
     He turned to Fotherby. “What are they doing?”
     “Five thousand quid on which raindrop will reach the bottom of the sill first.”
     Despite being close with many of the Prince Regent’s circle, Dom could not abide the excessive wagers his friends made. Alvanley would end up ruining himself and his estates at the rate he was going. “Are you ready to dine, or are you waiting the outcome?”
     “Famished.” Fotherby tossed off his glass of wine. “Thought you weren’t coming to Town this year.”
     “My plans changed.” Dom and Fotherby entered the dining room. “I have decided to take a wife.”
     “Wife?” Fotherby choked. “Any idea who?”
     “Not yet, but I have a list of qualifications. She must be well-bred, not given to fits of temper or strange starts, quiet, biddable, easy to look at—I must get an heir on her after all—know what is expected of a marchioness. And not prone to scandals. You know how my uncle hated them. I think that about covers it.”
     “A paragon, in other words.”
     Dom gave a cut nod. “Indeed. I could wed no one less.”

When a Marquis Chooses a Bride
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The Series: The Worthingtons

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Three Weeks To Wed [1]

In the first book of her dazzling new series, bestselling author Ella Quinn introduces the soon-to-be Earl and Countess of Worthington--lovers who have more in common than they yet know. The future promises to be far from boring…

Lady Grace Carpenter is ready to seize the day--or rather, the night--with the most compelling man she's ever known. Marriage would mean losing guardianship of her beloved siblings, and surely no sane gentleman will take on seven children not his own. But if she can have one anonymous tryst with Mattheus, Earl of Worthington, Grace will be content to live out the rest of her life as a spinster.

Matt had almost given up hope of finding a wife who could engage his mind as well as his body. And now this sensual, intelligent woman is offering herself to him. What could be more perfect? Except that after one wanton night, the mysterious Grace refuses to have anything to do with him. Amid the distractions of the Season he must convince her, one delicious encounter at a time, that no obstacle--or family--is too much for a man who's discovered his heart's desire…

[Published 29 March 2016, 320 pages]

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About the Author

Bestselling author Ella Quinn’s studies and other jobs have always been on the serious side. Reading historical romances, especially Regencies, were her escape. Eventually her love of historical novels led her to start writing them. She has just finished her first series, The Marriage Game, and her new series will start in April 2016.

She is married to her wonderful husband of over thirty years. They have a son and granddaughter, one cat and a dog. After living in the South Pacific, Central America, North Africa, England and Europe, she and her husband decided to make their dreams come true and are now living on a sailboat cruising the Caribbean and North America.

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