The trick to an ideal love story is having a very good cause why the characters can’t fall in love. Maybe it’s feuding households, perhaps it’s scheming stepmothers, perhaps it’s delight and/or prejudice. In Sophie Jordan’s The Scandalous Ladies of London: The Countess, it’s that the person of Lady Gertrude’s desires is courting her daughter.
Gertrude, the Countess of Chatham (Tru to her mates), gave up on any notions of contentment or satisfaction in her married life inside weeks of her marriage ceremony. Tru’s by no means going to have a cheerful ending—and she or he’s made her peace with that. But now that it’s her daughter’s first season, Tru will do no matter it takes to ensure Delia has an opportunity at one thing higher. She desires her daughter to have a love match, a husband who will cherish and respect her. But Tru’s callous wastrel of a husband decides that Delia’s debut is his probability to pick a suitor with deep pockets to fund his debauched life-style. Things get even worse when he reveals that his hand-picked choice for his or her new son-in-law is Jasper Thorne, a person Tru has met simply as soon as earlier than—throughout a short encounter that was extra sensual, extra intense than something she has skilled within the entirety of her marriage.
A self-made man with no reverence for sophistication or station, Jasper has no respect for a disgusting cad like Tru’s husband. He desires an aristocratic spouse purely to make sure that his daughter has each attainable privilege and benefit. But what he desires most is Tru, moderately desperately, and has from the second he laid eyes on her. If pretending to courtroom Delia offers him an excuse to be round Tru, he’ll take it. It’s a match that may’t probably occur—however their attraction can’t be denied.
Jordan is aware of methods to ship the warmth, and the chemistry between Jasper and Tru is scorching. At the identical time, The Countess doesn’t draw back from the difficulties of their scenario, or the difficulties of different ladies inside Tru’s circle. This ebook is an intriguing introduction to a sequence that may discover the love lives of those robust, fierce and compelling ladies, all of whom resigned themselves to unsatisfying marriages as a result of that’s what the strictures of excessive society demanded. Jasper and Tru need to combat towards these strictures to get their fortunately ever after, and that makes The Countess a compelling learn. If love got here simply, watching a pair combat to win it wouldn’t be practically as enjoyable.
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