La Casa Dorada (A Candlelight Regency Special #245) [Mass Market Paperback]

Janet Louise Roberts (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 223 pages
• Publisher: Dell Books (October 15, 1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440146178
• ISBN-13: 978-0440146179
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,266,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars marry in haste, September 24, 2005

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This review is from: La Casa Dorada (A Candlelight Regency Special #245) (Mass Market Paperback)

Mara Pearsall is an English woman living in Madrid. She has sworn off men after seeing her mother die in misery and loneliness, still calling for Mara's father who had long abandoned them to pursue his carefree life of wine and women.

Determinedly disguising herself to look horribly unattractive, Mara is frustrated in her attempts at single freedom by her new guardian, Sir Gaylord Humphrey. He is determined to marry her off as quickly as possible and forcibly moves her in with his family and pretties her up with no expenses spared.

Mara soon runs into an old enemy from her days as a freedom fighter with her Spanish tutor. While trying to deal with that and Sir Humphrey's sister's affair with a young Spanish soldier, she is compromised into marrying Sir Humphrey to avoid scandal.

For someone supposedly brave enough to fight as a freedom fighter, Mara becomes sadly spiritless when it comes to organizing her own life. Whenever Mara and Sir Humphrey clash, she just collapses like a souffle and wonders how she ended up living at Sir Humphrey's house . . . or wearing pretty new clothing . . . or marrying Sir Humphrey.