Being the logical scientist he is, Alex decides to take his friend's advice and treat his quest for a bride just like a science experiment.Ĭaroline Sinclair is still trying to scrape her jaw off the floor after hearing her cousin, Lady Olivia’s, latest announcement when the object of their conversation, Alex Banks, Olivia’s intended, arrives for what Caroline assumes is a bout of drawing room chitchat with his betrothed. With a loophole that allows him to marry another without consequence before the thirtieth anniversary of his birth, he has only four weeks to find another woman and make her his wife. The overly scientific, always respectable, and socially awkward Alexander Banks has just been informed his name resides on a betrothal agreement right above the name of the worst chit in all of England. Thirteen days, a handful of kisses and one scandalous situation later, Andrew and Brooke will have to choose to stick to their original plans, or decide if a life together is worth the risk. Widely known for her tendency to flout the rules, she suspects nothing when a handsome stranger appears on her doorstep. She came to London to have a good time, and that’s exactly what she’s doing.

But, in order to gain his fortune he must do only one simple thing: ruin an innocent young lady’s reputation enough to make her flee to America.īrooke Banks isn’t interested in marriage, or so she thinks. With no other means for an income, the impoverished Andrew Black, Earl of Townson, makes an agreement that will put a definite end to his eight year poverty streak. The innocent he's selected, however, has no plans to settle for anything less than marriage and will go to almost any length to secure him.

Please Michelle, rather read modern children books.Will he secure his future by ruining hers, or will she ruin his plans by securing him? A new twist on the old fortune hunter plot puts an impoverished earl in a position to gain his fortune only by ruining an innocent's reputation without offering marriage.

It is so out of place as if one of the characters jumped into an automobile instead of a horse and carriage. The story takes place in England, early 19th Century, yet the narrator has this irritating American accent. The narration sounds like a train jerking all the way unhill, never to flow regally down the hill. Listening to the narrator struggle through words and sentences takes away the joy of listening to a good book. Would you be willing to try another one of Michelle Anne Johnson’s performances? What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!) The narrator is awful, even a 10 year old could read better than she can. I would try another book from Rose Gordon, but if narrated by Michelle Anne Johnson, I will rather change to reading the book and not listeining to the book. Would you try another book from Rose Gordon and/or Michelle Anne Johnson?

His Jilted Bride by Rose Gordon