Mistress of Madderlea (Historical Romance) [Import] [Hardcover]

Mary Nichols (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon (March 5, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263161498
• ISBN-13: 978-0263161496
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Mary Nichols is a well-established novelist who writes in two different genres, family sagas for Allison & Busby and historical romance for Mills & Boon. She is the author of the best selling saga, The Summer House which was on the long list for the Romantic Novelists Association Romantic Novel of the Year award 2009 and is still selling strongly. Others are The Fountain and The Kirilov Star, both published in print and as ebooks.
Of the thirty-plus books she has written for Mills & Boon most are Regency, but others have backgrounds taken from the English Civil War right through to Victorian times. The most recent form a series of linked books about crime in Georgian Society and how it was dealt with by a group of aristocratic gentlemen who fall in love while doing it. They are: The Captain's Mysterious Lady, (short listed for the Romantic Novelists' Association Love Story of the Year award 2010), The Viscount's Unconventional Bride, Lord Portman's Troublesome Wife and Sir Ashley's Mettlesome Match. These, including some of her backlist, have also been published as ebooks.
Mary Nichols is also the author of The Mother of Necton, a biography of her grandmother who was a village nurse and midwife from the early years of the 20th century until the formation of the National Health Service in 1948. It is out of print in its original hardback form published by Breedon Books in 2000, but has been updated and re-issued in paperback by The Larks Press.
You can learn more about these books and more by visiting her website at www.marynichols.co.uk

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Traditional Regency, April 15, 2000

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John Whelan (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mistress of Madderlea (Hardcover)

Mary Nichols is not an author I had come across before that I thought I would try. I was very impressed. The heroine, Sophie Roswell, is a heiress who owns Madderlea. Through a series of accidents to her parents and guardians she now lives with her uncle a younger son who has become a lawer. Sophie cannot be allowed to run Madderlea herself, and using an agent to overlook the property is becoming unsatisfactory. "There is only one sure remedy, You must find a husband" and so to London she must go for the season. Lady Fitzpatrick a mature distant relative is to look after her and her cousin in London. How is Sophie to be sure that the men she meets aren't after her for her money? She switches places with Charlotte for the season.

From the dust cover of the Mills & Boon large print edition....

Miss Sophie Roswell wanted to marry, but her money would attract the wrong suitor. She switched places with her cousin Charlotte for the Season, but when she met Richard, Viscount Braybrooke, she knew. she'd made a mistake. Richard was looking for a wife, and the pair were falling in love, but as heir to a dukedom he couldn't follow the dictates of his heart, and Sophie was apparently ineligible...