Viscount Vagabond

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Summary: The road to ruin... and to romance
Review: Catherine Pelliston, escaping from what would be a forced marriage to an obnoxious friend of her father's, finds that she has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire when she ends up in a brothel. And not only a prisoner in said brothel, but with a man in her room, about to have sex with her!

Max, otherwise known as Viscount Vagabond, doesn't know what to make of the whore's protestations, but is drunk enough to agree to taking her home with him; he buys her freedom and takes her back to his temporary, and very shabby, rooms. In the morning, he realises that he believes her story, and sets about trying to help her - which includes taking her to his sister's house so that she can look after Catherine and provide cover for her whereabouts since Catherine's departure from her father's home. It seems that Catherine is a distant relation of Max's brother-in-law, which makes things easier.

Until Catherine's would-be fiance arrives in London, desperate to force her to accept his suit, and also very keen to find out where she was for that first night. In the meantime, Catherine and Max strike sparks off one another, which leads Max's sister to have interesting thoughts about Max's intentions towards Catherine. Until Catherine turns Max down, and he gets engaged to someone else...

And then the cat is among the pigeons, and we need all Chase's creative talents to untangle this tangled web of confused relationships!

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Summary: MMMM
Review: i liked this book at the beginning and the middle it had a lot of likable characters like max and catherine and especially jemmy however i thought it dragged a little too much at the end and they should have gotten together way before the end so it gets great points for plot and character definately not for the final part of the novel.

Rating:
Summary: MMMM
Review: i liked this book at the beginning and the middle it had a lot of likable characters like max and catherine and especially jemmy however i thought it dragged a little too much at the end and they should have gotten together way before the end so it gets great points for plot and character definately not for the final part of the novel.

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Summary: Priceless Chase
Review: Miss Catherine Pelliston wakes up to find a large, drunk man about to take her virtue. Max, "Viscount Vagabond," is puzzled when his fancy piece begins to sermonize to him about his evil ways. He decides to take her home with him to take full responsibility of her and thus begins this wonderful comedy of errors. It seems that Catherine cannot stay in one place and Max cannot keep his mind off his lovely guest. Amid evil former suitors and the riotous events of the Season, Max and Catherine realize they are perfect for each other.

This book is wonderful. The writing is forward moving and incredibly clever/wry. Chase proves her mastery of the language and Regency era. The characters are fun and likeable, especially the servants and Jemmy, the boy Catherine befriends. Chase does a wonderful job showing the progressing romance to prove how these opposites can believably attract.

If you can find a copy of this book, grab it and read it right away. You will not find many Regency books better than this one.