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AN ALMOST PERFECT ESCAPE
From a coop of Award-winning, best-selling author Denise Domning
"Almost Perfect proves as enchanting and gratifying as
author."--- Sondrea Cash, Romance Reviews Today
"Readers will suffer Almost Perfect just don't play cards with Cassie.---Harriet Klausner
OVERVIEW OF ALMOST PERFECT
One damaged urn, one depressed nobleman and a lick for a wager.
Add Scotland, an ace adult a eminent sleeve and a exile label sharp,
and let a follow begin.
More Praise: Five out of Five stars:
"Almost Perfect is a pleasing entrance Regency frisk by versatile author, Denise Domning ....
A fun regency intrigue with fun characters and enchanting plot. For a pleasing approach to spend a dusk we can't go wrong with this book! ---Kristi Ahlers, a reader
For anyone who loves clever characters, Regency Era Scotland, silk, satin and label sharks ... don't let ALMOST PERFECT escape!
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #19768 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-02-06
- Released on: 2012-02-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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From a Author
we contingency acknowledge to unequivocally fondness these dual characters. Even better, they're story takes place in one of a many pleasing and barren landscape I've ever seen. The limit area between Scotland and England has been a place of contrariety for eons, substantially starting prolonged before a ice overpass between England and a Continent thawed. Why did Hadrian build that wall of his? Because it slows down a inhabitants from possibly side of a wall as they lift stolen cattle, skill and, yes, women, behind to their possess side of a border. Of course, if we hadn't had a limit folk we would have some smashing words, like blackmail, or games, like rugby. Lucien's lodge, a pele tower, is an tangible character of home for a area. The approach a hills overlay behind his home is referred to as a "beef-tub", that is radically a dark place where a denizens who did conduct to lift cattle over Hadrian's wall stashed their stolen beef. And, a refuge Devanney's residence celebration goes off to revisit is formed on a musical hull of Melrose Abbey.
So, for what it's value we wish you've enjoyed my gash during a Regency Era romance. Thanks for perplexing it!
About a Author
Denise lives with her father on a soon-to-be plantation in Northern Arizona along with several cats, chickens and one dog. You can follow their exploits on her blog: Living with a Other Ed.
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4 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By Freelance Reviewer
Widow Cassandra Marston, her prodigal father Roland Conningsby, and younger sister Elizabeth, are about to transport from their foreclosed home in England to Scotland in a hopes of evading creditors and securing thoroughfare to America. A scandalous gambler, Conningsby placed Elizabeth "on-the-table" as a gambling bet...and lost. When a inhuman winner, Neville Mayne, Earl Bucksden, arrives to collect Elizabeth shortly before their departure, Cassandra, infuriated, knocks him over a conduct with an urn. Assuming she has committed murder, a 3 rush for their lives to a home of Cassandra's aunt-in-law, Philana, Lady Forster, during Ettrick House in Scotland. They arrive usually in time to attend a grand round during Ryecroft Castle. Little does Cassandra know a indirect residence celebration will pierce her face to face with a corrupt hillside Lucien Hollier -- a male who left her 6 years ago given of her father's reputation.
Lucien Hollier can't trust his eyes when he sees Cassandra Marston during his friend's home, Ryecroft Castle. When she hurdles him to a label diversion Lucien frankly accepts...and loses. Furious during his loss, Lucien sets out to display Cassandra as a cheat, usually to learn she and her family have fled in a night. He will find her. He will get his income back. Or so he thinks. Lucien can't trust his good fitness when he discovers Cassandra, a plant of a carriage collision and amnesia, left alone by her father and sister during a side of a road.
Certain Cassandra has seen a final of Lucien, she's zero too happy to be discovered by a rake. Now she contingency adopt amnesia, and wish for a best. What follows is a dangerous diversion whereby Lucien claims she is his wife, holding her to his lodge. What can Cassandra do, yet comply?
ALMOST PERFECT is a pleasant entrance Regency frisk by versatile author, Denise Domning essay as Denise Hampton. Filled with compelling, plausible characters and storyline, Ms. Hampton nonetheless again proves herself as a intrigue author during a tip of her game.
Fast paced, exciting, intriguing, and original, ALMOST PERFECT is a ideal read. Whether essay Medieval, Elizabethan, or, now, Regency England and Scotland, Ms. Hampton will constraint a reader's courtesy from initial page to last.
I rarely suggest ALMOST PERFECT as one of a best Regency intrigue historicals we will examination in a genre. A clear keeper!
2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
By Sondrea Cash
Six years have upheld given Lucien Hollier abruptly forsaken his office of lovely, enchanting Cassandra Marston. During those years both Lucien and Cassandra engaged unfortunate marriages, and both have been widowed. Now predestine has given Lucien a possibility to charm into his bed a lady he has never stopped wanting. And given Cassie is now an gifted widow, rather than an unwed innocent, he can take her as his mistress and finally moisten a years of unslaked desire. But things don't go according to plan, for Cassie has an bulletin of her own, one that doesn't embody permitting Lucien to once again mangle her heart. Soon a dual are sealed into a conflict of wits and wills that usually by losing can they both win.
From a really beginning, we favourite and dignified Cassie. Though life has not been easy for her, Cassie has not let herself get degraded and keeps fighting to emanate a improved life for herself, her younger sister, and even their inebriated backer father. we did not, however, caring for Lucien. From his initial introduction, we found myself actively despising him and feared that my feelings toward him would hurt any wish of fondness a story. Fortunately, Lucien grew from a shallow, greedy male who places too many importance on a opinions of multitude -- yet we acknowledge his opinion was unchanging with group of his time -- into an emotionally mature and excellent hero.
My initial dislike of Lucien stemmed from his enterprise to make Cassie, whom he knows to be a lady of good impression and tact and professes to have feelings for, his mistress. As many as he favourite her, he deliberate her underneath him given of her father, that usually didn't lay good with me. Also, when he spurned her 6 years before, he knew his actions lowered her in a eyes of a ton. Then, when her usually offer of matrimony came from a male he knew was distant from a saint he appeared, Lucien did zero to advise her. As a result, Cassie suffered many heartache, pain and annoyance during her marriage. we couldn't assistance yet feel a profanation and unhappiness Lucien endured in his socially scold matrimony his usually deserts.
Happily, it shortly became apparent that Lucien's disgraceful intentions towards Cassie were a smokescreen -- something he told himself to make it probable to pursue her. Yet no matter how many he told himself his march was fit and proper, he never utterly pulled it off. Later, when resources done it required for Cassie to feign amnesia, Lucien masqueraded as her husband, and a illusory conditions authorised them both to reduce their guard, and it was during this time that they were their many honest with any other even as they "pretended."
In further to Cassie and Lucien, ALMOST PERFECT facilities several other enchanting and good drawn characters, privately Cassie's younger sister, Elizabeth, their Aunt Philana, and Lucien's cousin, as good as best friend, Adam Devanney. Even Cassie's father, Roland, was not though saving qualities, yet it took apocalyptic resources to coax him to change his ways.
ALMOST PERFECT, Denise Hampton's initial Regency epoch book, proves as enchanting and gratifying as her Gothic romances. Though ALMOST PERFECT is her final story from her stream publisher, Avon, we wish that this will not be a final book, or a final romance, from this really gifted author.
3 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By Kristi Ahlers
Ms. Hampton's latest book is a fun regency intrigue with fun characters and enchanting plot.
Cassandra Marston is a widow who finds herself on a run after she thinks that she has killed a counterpart of a area after clobbering him over a conduct with a urn. Her father is a gambler and his final peril finished with him formulation on handing his youngest daughter over to a male Cassie thinks she has killed. With usually a few pounds to their name Cassie, her sister Eliza and her father conduct to Scotland to stay with her aunt by matrimony for as prolonged as it takes to accumulate adequate account to set cruise for America and a new life. What ends adult function after their attainment in Scotland is some-more afterwards what they expected!
Lucien Hollier is entrance behind into multitude after his time of anguish is over. He mislaid his mother and child in birth and he is rather bruised. He skeleton on creation a scoundral that caused his pain to humour and he has usually a devise to do this. What he doesn't design is a revisit from a one lady that he has always cared for walking behind into his life. She is all that he could caring for, yet her fathers station as a wasteral creates it unfit for them to have a future. They do attend in a salary that has Cassie giving Lucien a lick that leds to roughly some-more afterwards possibly one of them counted on!
This was a good examination and a change of gait by Ms. Hampton. we enjoyed a characters (both primary and secondary) and felt that a story pierce well. For a pleasent approach to spend a dusk we can't go wrong with this book!
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