Rainbird's Revenge (A House for the Season, Book 6) [Hardcover]

Marion Chesney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1988

When the Duke of Pelham returns to his town house at 67 Clarges Street, he is grimly determined to find a suitable wife--but completely unprepared for what the Season has to offer. The duke’s title alone has always brought him more than his share of feminine attention; claiming not to believe in love, he has never been spurned by a lady.The duke’s self-imposed search is soon disrupted by the arrival in London of Miss Jenny Sutherland, a spoiled but beautiful country girl whose vanity is her tragic flaw. According to her guardian Aunt Letitia, lack of competition has made Jenny put on airs; in London, she will get the set-down she sorely deserves. Indeed, at her first important London party, Jenny’s blatant disdain for the duke leads to certain disaster.But no one has counted on the intervention of John Rainbird, the shrewd and resourceful butler at 67 Clarges Street. Rainbird befriends Jenny, suggesting she look in the mirror a little less often. The result is a mischievous scheme that will insure Jenny’s social success and determine the fate of the close-knit family of servants at 67 Clarges Street

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 165 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1 edition (June 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312015062
• ISBN-13: 978-0312015060
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,358,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars entertaining wrap up to the series......., March 3, 2008

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This review is from: Rainbird's Revenge (A House for the Season, Book 6) (Paperback)

The final book in Chesney's "A House For The Season" series has no renter-because by chance, The 10th Duke of Pelham himself must use the house while his larger home is being renovated. The servants are nervous and excited to finally meet their lord and master. Will he be kind, or harsh and tightfisted as his man of affairs, Palmer, has be oh these many years?

The Duke-who came into the title early, is a good man-though a bit arrogant and pompous from being used to getting his own way. Out one weekend in the country before the season begins he meets our heroine, Jenny. The chit has the audacity to snub him for a dance, thinking him a commoner and not a lord!

Jenny-a country genteel lady who lives with her aunt after her parents death, has been, unknowingly to her aunt, preened and coddled by a governess who treated Jenny as if she were the most beautiful girl in all England. So understandably, Jenny has grown into a extremely vain girl whose preoccupation with her appearance has made her selfish and self centered.

Can romance be found for two such flawed, but at heart good, people?

Book 6 is for the most part a wrap up more about the servants storyline than the romance of the hero and heroine-hence the four star rating. But the lack in the main story is more than made up with the final confrontation of Rainbird and company and the odious Jonas Palmer, who has treated the staff no better than slaves in the first five books.

Some surprises await you as you learn each staff members future. The reader has so invested themselves in this motley crew that they will be sad to see them no more after the books end.


A must for fans of the series who owe it to themselves to see how everything ends.
4 stars!