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Summary: I guarantee you won't be able to put this one down!
Review: I picked up Ms. Boyle's newest book, NO MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE, when I had a little time, thinking I would just read a chapter. One chapter became two. Two became four. Soon I was halfway through and so engrossed I couldn't put it down. Mason and Riley were a dynamic duo and I found myself laughing out loud as I read their adventures. Don't miss this wonderful love story. Or believe me, you'll regret it.
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Summary: Charming 4 1/2 stars book
Review: I would have given this 5 stars except that the beginning was slow, and I almost put the book aside and stop reading it. But since I read Ms. Boyle's latest book and loved it, I figured I would try to read at least 100 pages before tossing it aside, and the next thing I knew I was so caught up in the story, I couldn't put it down! Give the book a chance, it is a charming read!
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Summary: One of the best books I've read this year!!
Review: I'm a big fan of romance novels that contain humor.So it was a real treat to discover Elizabeth Boyle.I can't say enough about this novel, it made me laugh out loud (more than once)and even brought a tear to my eye.The characters are wonderful,I absolutely loved the hero's cousin Felicity,she's a riot!!!As a matter of fact I liked all the secondary characters.Mason and Riley's story will warm your heart as well as tickle your funny bone.I hated to see the end.Well now i'm just going to have to buy all of Elizabeth Boyle's previous books and wait patiently for her next.
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Summary: Good read
Review: In 1798 Mason St. Clair, the new Earl of Ashlin knows he should not speak unkindly of the dead. However, the amount and types of debt his predecessor, his older brother Freddie, managed to accumulate simply stuns Mason. Adding to his discomfit, is his three ungainly nieces who he needs to find mates for without giving them dowries.Actress Madame Riley Fontaine arrives to allegedly pay off a debt that Mason never heard of in his life. To Riley's chagrin and shock, the studious Mason reads the contract instead of ogling her body as she expected. The debt owed the estate by Riley would pay for the three nieces' debut. Instead, his Cousin Felicity works a deal in which Riley trains the nieces into becoming the diamonds of the season. As Riley and Mason work together and begin considering a marriage of convenience, they fall in love. However, she remains a financially strapped actress with a mysterious past and he is an aristocrat facing bankruptcy. NO MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE is an entertaining Regency romance filled with an assortment of odd, but endearing characters (and a villain). The brazen story line is amusing yet filled with tender feelings that touch the audience. Elizabeth Boyle's witty tale will provide much delight to sub-genre readers. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Misleading beginning, but a good read.
Review: Mason St. Clair, Earl of Ashlin, had a title, very little money, and three nieces who were eligible for marriage but needed to be made "suitable" for potential husbands. The woman he finds for this training is Riley Fontaine, an actress and woman of questionable reputation. Though she has little money herself, what she does have is personality and quite a temper. Although this book has its amusing moments, perhaps the story would have been better served if it stuck closer to its chilling prologue. The characters here were rather superficial, and Riley seemed to be the only person of any substance here. We hope Ms. Boyle's next book will be truer to its introduction.
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Summary: Misleading beginning, but a good read.
Review: Mason St. Clair, Earl of Ashlin, had a title, very little money, and three nieces who were eligible for marriage but needed to be made "suitable" for potential husbands. The woman he finds for this training is Riley Fontaine, an actress and woman of questionable reputation. Though she has little money herself, what she does have is personality and quite a temper. Although this book has its amusing moments, perhaps the story would have been better served if it stuck closer to its chilling prologue. The characters here were rather superficial, and Riley seemed to be the only person of any substance here. We hope Ms. Boyle's next book will be truer to its introduction.
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Summary: A spell-binding story
Review: Mason St. Clair, the Earl of Ashlin is out of money, out of time, and out of options. His brother, father, and grandfather before him have all wasted away any monies associated with his newly inherited title and lands. Now he has to find a suitable bride to help him repay his considerable debts and help his ungainly nieces find husbands to boot. When Riley Fontaine walks through his door, he finds none of those things, yet he can't get her out of his mind. Mason has some really wonderful qualities that make him unique. Whether it's spectacles he doesn't need, an interesting way with a knife, or his ability to make any room become silent with just a word, he is a true hero through and through. Riley has a troubled past, and a man out to murder her... not to mention a play to run. The last thing she needs is love. Yet somehow it all comes together in a nail-biting, grinning-from-ear-to-ear read that will have you turning the pages. Elizabeth comes through with another classic!
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Summary: A spell-binding story
Review: Mason St. Clair, the Earl of Ashlin is out of money, out of time, and out of options. His brother, father, and grandfather before him have all wasted away any monies associated with his newly inherited title and lands. Now he has to find a suitable bride to help him repay his considerable debts and help his ungainly nieces find husbands to boot. When Riley Fontaine walks through his door, he finds none of those things, yet he can't get her out of his mind. Mason has some really wonderful qualities that make him unique. Whether it's spectacles he doesn't need, an interesting way with a knife, or his ability to make any room become silent with just a word, he is a true hero through and through. Riley has a troubled past, and a man out to murder her... not to mention a play to run. The last thing she needs is love. Yet somehow it all comes together in a nail-biting, grinning-from-ear-to-ear read that will have you turning the pages. Elizabeth comes through with another classic!
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Summary: Charming 4 1/2 stars book
Review: Mason St. Clair, the New Earl of Ashlin, has not only inherited the title of earl after the untimely death of his brother and sister-in-law, he inherited three neices from hell, the batty aunt - who is still waiting for a proposal from her beau of 20 years - a mountain a debts and bill collectors pounding on the door. His only choice is to marry off the three demon daughters of his brother - or marry for money himself!!
To the Ton, the Ashlins were highflighers, the mountain of bills coming from years and years of gambling debts and keeping the queue of mistresses in high style. But Mason has spent his life trying to live down the Ashlin reputation. A celibate teacher at Oxford, he has tried so hard to change the Ashlin image.
In waltzes Riley Fontaine with a bag of gold. She is an actress, beautiful and full of charm and grace - everything his 3 neices are not. In order for him to marry them off, he needs someone to polish there 'diamonds in the very rough'. Turns out Riley's play was backed by his brother and she cannot replay the full amount due. In an 'Ashlin' moment, Mason decides the way she can work off her money is to take over the training of his neices.
There is the charming Aggie, Riley's partner in the theatre, her alarming 7 foot bodyguard, the tongueless Hashim, the hopeless love-struck friend of Mason's, and a killer that wishes Riley dead.
All it done with a sweet romance, and it a pleasure to read. WISE Writers and Readers Book of the Month for October 2000
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Summary: What an utterly charming, romantic tale
Review: Mason St. Clair, the New Earl of Ashlin, has not only inherited the title of earl after the untimely death of his brother and sister-in-law, he inherited three nieces from hell, the batty aunt - who is still waiting for a proposal from her beau of 20 years - a mountain a debts and bill collectors pounding on the door. His only choice is to marry off the three demon daughters of his brother - or marry for money himself!!
To the Ton, the Ashlins were highflighers, the mountain of bills coming from years and years of gambling debts and keeping the queue of mistresses in high style. But Mason has spent his life trying to live down the Ashlin reputation. A celibate teacher at Oxford, he has tried so hard to change the Ashlin image. In waltzes Riley Fontaine with a bag of gold. She is an actress, beautiful and full of charm and grace - everything his 3 nieces are not. In order for him to marry them off, he needs someone to polish there 'diamonds in the very rough'. Turns out Riley's play was backed by his brother and she cannot replay the full amount due. In an 'Ashlin' moment, Mason decides the way she can work off her money is to take over the training of his nieces. There is the charming Aggie, Riley's partner in the theatre, her alarming 7 foot bodyguard, the tongueless Hashim, the hopeless love-struck friend of Mason's, and a killer that wishes Riley dead. All it done with a sweet romance, and it a pleasure to read. WISE Writers and Readers Book of the Month for October 2000
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