Convenient Marriage

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Georgette Heyer: Convenient Marriage (2013, Penguin Random House)

288 pages

English language

Published 2013 by Penguin Random House.

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978-0-09-958555-8
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When Lord Marcus Drelincourt, Earl of Rule, the most eligible match of Georgian England, offers for the hand of the oldest and prettiest sister of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended. Beauty Lizzie Winwood already is promised to Edward Heron, an also impoverished military, who she loves, but the wealthy Earl of Rule wants her as his wife. Lizzie's younger sister Horatia conceives a dazzling plan to avert a nuptial disaster, and offers herself, since he really wants to marry into this family. He has lots of money but they have an old family line. Everyone knows Horry isn't that beauty and has a stutter, but she'll do her best to keep out of the Earl's way and make him a good wife.

He agree, and dazzling Horatia married the powerful Earl of Rule. Their was a convenient marriage, she was only …

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  • Fiction, romance, general