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Jessamine's Folly by [Suzanne G. Rogers]

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“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.” – Samuel Johnson

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!

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12 - 18 years
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234 pages
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English
Grade level

7 - 12
Publication date

November 19, 2013
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Freshly laid horse tracks made it easy for Dallas to follow his sister's path. Although the route was circuitous, he finally spied Amelie picking flowers in a distant field of bluebells. As he moved closer, he spied Miss Foster sitting underneath the weeping willow tree. Her long dark wavy hair was loose of its ordinary constraints, and it had been decorated with elegant bluebells, fuzzy purple knapweed, and cheerful white and yellow wild strawberry blooms. Any uneasiness or worry Miss Foster had exhibited previously had given way to a carefree and happy contentment, and the total effect was enchanting. He hesitated a moment, reluctant to disturb the beautiful tableau, but then his sister spotted him.

"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
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 234 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0990756149

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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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Linda C

Simply wonderful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2023

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As usual, Suzannes' books are an exceptionally beautiful experience that cannot be mimicked, but must be experienced by all historical romance readers.

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Terrific read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 9, 2016

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I just wish that it had been longer. I was so surprised when the opening scene was a funeral. That was a first for me. In a way it is a Cinderella story. Orphaned girl treated treated terribly and forced to live in the attics (third floor, actually), meets handsome prince (Earl in this case), defeats the wicked stepmother (Aunt and cousin) and lives happily ever after. But it is written in such a charming and witty manner, with twists and turns to keep your interest all the way. The epilogue was one of the best that I have ever read. Suzanne Rogers has a new fan!

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.

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Kryswalker

Edwardian fantasy romance

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 24, 2016

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We are introduced to the beautiful, humble, and charming Jessamine at the funeral of her parents, after which she is emotionally and fiscally destitute and entirely dependent upon her father's brother, who inherited everything. So in essence Rogers gives us an Edwardian take on Cinderella, complete with cruel treatment by her wicked aunt and female cousin.

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.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 15, 2014

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After reading a fair amount of drivel today, this was a welcome treat. It's a shortish book, which moves quickly. Our h is orphaned at 15 and her aunt and uncle take her on but the aunt is a real b**ch and pushes her to leave once she's old enough to get work. The h's cousin is also a real piece of work and is jealous of the h in many ways and makes her life hard. The h takes a job as companion to the H's younger sister. No one seems to last very long in the position as they all fall in love with the H we are told. There's another awful girl wanting the H and she's instrumental in a lot of the problems the h faces. The H is gorgeous and his sister is really sweet. The h's aunt is a very interesting secondary character. I can really recommend this book.

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Whitney

What else could possibly happen?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 21, 2016

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The first 20% or so was great. I went to bed and picked it up tonight. Suddenly the drama was overflowing. Jessamine and Dallas were suddenly in love. BEWARE, SPOILERS BELOW.
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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.

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Patsy Chastang

A wonderful Edwardian Romance

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2018

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A wonderful clean, historical, romance novel during the Edwardian Era. Jessamine Foster found herself alone after her parents died when she could not get along with her relatives, she was forced to find employment. Jessamine was employed as a companion to Amelia, the sister to Lord Dallas Marsden, the seventh Earl of Kirkendale.

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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Sisalka

Better than most - but editing needed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 17, 2016

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I like historical romance, unfortunately, most of the time it is badly written. So this was a pleasant surprise because the actual writing is quite good. The lack of stars is for the fairly ridiculous plot twists *SPOILER* like the heroine leaving a box with letters behind that she hasn't read, although she knows her 'enemies' are plentiful and they are nosy. If the author could also avoid typical Americanisms, like the more than unlikely first name Dallas for a British aristocrat in the late 19th century, this would be a really good read.
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.

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Angela Katherine Hoynes

Lovely story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 21, 2021

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The title is slightly misleading as all the mistakes are made by other people. It’s a great story with believable characters and I will look out for more books by this author.

Amy

Let down by American names and phrasing in a British setting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 18, 2016

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Seriously an Earl named Dallas? Doesn't bode well... Writing could be much better and even a few minutes of research on Google would show the author the implausibility of such and the modern American phrasing which abounds. It would have been better to set this in North America in the 1800s and then you can get away with such.

3 people found this helpful

carb

Tearful but amazing story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 14, 2017

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I couldn't put this book down and had to get to the wonderful conclusion. Although at several points I had to stop to use a tissue. It was a truly well put together story right through, hurrah for happy endings.

A. Hemingway

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 17, 2017

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This is the first book by this author I read so didn't expect too much but it was great a very enjoyable read. It's a bit like a version of Cinderella. Will look out for more books by this author now.

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