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After her estate is entailed away, Jessamine Foster has no choice but to live with relatives who detest her. When her aunt gives her an ultimatum to leave, Jessamine accepts a position as companion to Lord Kirkendale’s sister—even though she’s been warned her predecessors can’t seem to resist the earl’s exceptional good looks. Can Jessamine manage to hold onto her job without losing her heart?
To honor a promise made to his dying father, Lord Kirkendale agrees to an arranged marriage to a woman he cannot love. Although he is resigned to a life without sentiment, the arrival of his sister’s new companion awakens a slumbering passion. Can he find a way to secure his own happiness without sacrificing his family’s honor, or will his broken promise result in the ruination of the person he loves most?
A hopelessly romantic, blush-free Edwardian-era romance!
- Reading age12 - 18 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level7 - 12
- Publication dateNovember 19, 2013
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From the Inside Flap
"Dallas!" Amelie shrieked. "What are you doing here!"
Miss Foster's eyes grew wide, and she scrambled to her feet. "Milord!" She began to tear flowers from her hair.
"Don't let me spoil your fun." Dallas removed his hat, plucked one of the bluebells from Amelie's hand, and stuck it behind his ear. "In fact, I'll join in."
"It's not quite the same somehow," Amelie said.
A whisper of a smile lit Miss Foster's face, but she didn't slow her efforts to make herself presentable.
--This text refers to the paperback edition.
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- ASIN : B00GXBV0MM
- Publisher : Idunn Court Publishing; 2nd edition (November 19, 2013)
- Publication date : November 19, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 5006 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 234 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0990756149
- Best Sellers Rank: #590,008 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Bestselling author Suzanne G. Rogers is a California native, but she changed coastlines and now lives in romantic Savannah, Georgia, on an island populated by deer, exotic birds, turtles, otters, and gators. Writing blush-free, young adult fiction is her passion.
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I do have one question, though. The cover of the book is beautiful but it caused me to pass this book over several times. I have a pet peeve for historical heroines wearing prom-type dresses. I have looked on several websites and cannot find a dress like this one. Low cut dresses were fashionable for evening but I can't find any that are strapless. The dress was worn first by the heroine's mother (1880ish by my estimation) and recreated for her in the early 1900s. Were there actually strapless dresses at this time? This inquiring mind wants to know.
Readers will not find any language or sexual situations to offend them.
In the flow of things, years later Jessamine slips away to work as a companion to the charming Lady Amelia while fighting a strong attraction to her handsome brother, the earl -- is this the reason behind the mystery as to why Amelie has gone through so many governesses/companions in such short order?
Toss in devious schemers in Jessamine's cousin, a neighbor using blackmail to get the Earl's ring on her finger, and a back history of potential illegitimacy on both the hero's and heroine's sides, and Rogers clearly shows delight in keeping all her balls juggling in the air.
If the novel has a weak spot, it's in an epilogue that becomes a flat-out farce out of keeping with the rest of the story in exacting sharp and gleeful revenge on every character who ever engaged in malice against Jessamine and Dallas, the Earl.
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Let's see if I can remember everything. Jessamine's parents die, everything is left to her uncle.
Jessamine is treated like trash.
Aunt tells her to find a job as governess.
She finds a job with Dallas.
This is where the ridiculous drama starts, so much that I don't even remember each part.
Dallas finds out Jessamine was mistreated.
Falls in love (we missed most of the falling part)
Can't marry her because he has to marry Charlotte.
Finds out his father was blackmailed because sister is illegitimate.
Gets drunk, kisses Jessamine.
Fires Jessamine because he kissed her.
Jessamine's aunt tells the Uncle she'll press charges for the aunt stealing all of the money she sent to Jessamine. He comes back for Jessamine and acts like he knew nothing about what was happening with his witchy wife and daughter.
Dallas says he fired Jessamine so he could court her.
Charlotte and Jess's cousin find out Jessamine is actually the daughter of her aunt, who is a prostitute. The Foster's kick her out.
She goes to live with her mother and the world falls apart for the Fosters.
Dallas still loves her, but now thinks she's his half sister. He approaches Jess's aunt/mother about this. Nope, turns out his sister is legitimate after all as well.
Jess goes to a ball, instead of being cut by Charlotte's friends they are in awe of her.
The last sentence you find out Jess's father is the king.
All of this in 150-200 pages. The farther I got, the more farfetched it seemed.
The story gives us a glance into England's Society during that time period. Jessamine, Amelia, and Lord Dallas was someone to behold. The characters and plot was well defined with great emotions and the novel is very well written. I enjoyed the story, wished it had not ended so quickly. I recommend this book to everyone, a fast paced, good, clean historical romance novel.
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I found it weird that the story just breaks off and only a lengthy epilogue ticks all the things off the list of things we want to know in the end. The way that was written was an author's note, not an epilogue. A bit more editing would have made this a really enjoyable read.



