First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros: The Earl’s New Bride

Today I’m participating in First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea, in which bloggers share a bit about a book they’re reading or planning to read soon.

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I haven’t yet started The Earl’s New Bride but I will soon.

Chapter 1

Kent, England 1819

Lady Henrietta Beauchamp was about to faint.

She teetered on a precarious edge, where one more whiff of Mr. Livingston would knock her quite senseless.

Unless Lady Georgiana’s practiced squeals of delight didn’t do it first.

 

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Synopsis

England, 1819

The Earl of Amhurst has returned to his estate in search of a wife and, more importantly, an heir. Simon Devere isn’t interested in some comely, simpering creature. A beautiful woman only brings heartbreak and ruin, and Simon’s disfigured visage is proof enough of that. No, he wants a wife who is unattractive and undesirable—and the homelier, the better.

But nothing about Lady Henrietta Beauchamp is homely. She is lovely and sweet…and struggles to mix with polite society when she would so much rather have plants for company. And yet Simon is her only hope for keeping Plumburn Castle in her family’s possession. Even if it means marrying a man she doesn’t love.

It’s an impossible and unlikely match…unless this awkward beauty can bring hope back into a solitary beast’s life.

Would you keep reading?