The Importance of Being Wicked by Miranda Neville

Drama may be somewhat lacking in their adventures, but delight is not. The one drawback of such pleasantly believable protagonists is that their problems always appear equally life-sized. Neville's characterizations are down to earth: the women are pretty without being ravishing and principled without being irrational, and Thomas is open to expanding his horizons. A plain-speaking, countrified man, Thomas abundantly merits Caro's nickname, 'Stuffy,' yet this slave to convention can't resist the spendthrift, bohemian widow.

Her cousin, the heiress Anne Brotherton, comes for a visit, bringing the fortune-hunting duke of Castleton, Thomas Fitzcharles. The Importance Of Being Wicked by Miranda Neville, 2012, Avon Books edition, It looks like you're offline. This isn’t your cookie cutter Regency-set romance. It’s thoughtful, and the characters are interesting and different. The Importance of Being Wicked is a good book. Neville resided for a long time in Vermont along with her daughter as well as her cat.

She grew up in England, where she loved to read Regency romances and all of the books written by author Georgette Heyer. Her gambler husband now dead, she faces mountainous debt and unpleasantly pressing creditors. Miranda Neville is an author who flies under the radar for me, but when I read her books I nearly always like them. Miranda Neville is an English author of fiction specializing in the genre of romance. Rebellious Julian Fortescue never expected to inherit a dukedom, nor to find himself guardian to three young. Caroline Townsend made a rash Gretna Green marriage at 17 and doesn't regret it mostly. Wanted: Governess able to keep all hours. The Second Seduction of a Lady and The Importance of Being Wicked by Miranda Neville. (Dec.Neville (Confessions from an Arranged Marriage) displays a signature blend of froth and history in this improbable 1793 English romance. avon books double header, miranda neville, historical romance.

Neville’s characterizations are down to earth: the women are pretty without being ravishing and principled without being irrational, and Thomas is open to expanding his horizons. A plain-speaking, countrified man, Thomas abundantly merits Caro’s nickname, “Stuffy,” yet this slave to convention can’t resist the spendthrift, bohemian widow. Her cousin, the heiress Anne Brotherton, comes for a visit, bringing the fortune-hunting duke of Castleton, Thomas Fitzcharles. Her gambler husband now dead, she faces mountainous debt and unpleasantly pressing creditors. Caroline Townsend made a rash Gretna Green marriage at 17 and doesn’t regret it-mostly. Neville (Confessions from an Arranged Marriage) displays a signature blend of froth and history in this improbable 1793 English romance.