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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