Miss Winthorpe's Elopement (Harlequin Historical) [Mass Market Paperback]

Christine Merrill (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Historical | Publication Date: March 1, 2010

Dashing Duke, Bluestocking Bride!

Shy heiress Miss Penelope Winthorpe was only trying to escape her bullying brother. She didn’t mean to wed a noble lord over a blacksmith’s anvil! Adam Felkirk, Duke of Bellston, had no intention of taking a wife. But then Penelope’s plight moved him.

Now the notorious rake has a new aim – to shock and seduce his prim and proper bride. But the gorgeous Duke will be taught a lesson of his own as scholarly Miss Winthorpe becomes his seductive duchess!

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (March 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373295847
• ISBN-13: 978-0373295845
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 6.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,373,377 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #83 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Romance > Series > Harlequin Historicals

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Should've been THE DUKE'S SORDID AFFAIR, April 21, 2010

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This review is from: Miss Winthorpe's Elopement (Harlequin Historical) (Mass Market Paperback)

This story title was so misleading! It should've been THE DUKE'S SORDID AFFAIR.

I wanted to like this story more than I did. The first 100 pages or so were delightful. Very unique storyline and empathetic characters but then...MILD SPOILER ALERT...then we met the hero's "friends" including one of the worst b*tches to ever grace the pages of a Regency novel, and the rest of the story revolved around his former affair with her. Bleh! The focus on this selfish and manipulative shrew overrode the developing love story. Despite reservations, I kept reading and hoping she'd fade from sight. She didn't.

As it is, maybe I should have rated this 2 stars because the fair Penelope, a neat, spunky character, got totally gypped with so much focus on her husband's previously philandering ways. He kept saying how sorry he was, but neither remorse nor his regret rang true. It almost seemed as though he was a Duke and should automatically be forgiven anything.

I've read other regencies where the hero previously slept with married women, but that was their past. In this case, the affair was thrown into our and the heroine's face time and again and it really ruined the story for me.

4.0 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 stars, December 30, 2011

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This review is from: Miss Winthorpe's Elopement (Harlequin Historical) (Kindle Edition)

The premise is a tad farfetched but the story drew me in. I've read it twice now and I liked it better the second time around. Heroine is bit of an underdog but wins the hero over with her goodness, kindness, and intelligence. She makes him be a better person. I enjoyed it and will likely read it again

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it, December 6, 2011

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This review is from: Miss Winthorpe's Elopement (Harlequin Historical) (Kindle Edition)

This was a very adorable book. Loved how these got together. Really enjoyed reading of Adam and Penelope, enjoyed how their feelings grew each day. Hoped to have read more of them. This book was really worth reading it.