Noblesse Oblige

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Summary: Very different; worth reading!
Review: An interesting story! Using all her small inheritance, Caroline makes a splash in London during her one season. She catches the eye of the Marquis of Kimston and a match is made -- but maybe not. Caroline returns home with the Marquis giving her a vague promise but he does not come through after all. Caroline's family is left virtually penniless and she is left with the grumblings of a father with no good sense and a very ill mother. After her mother's death, Caroline is forced into marriage by her father to the Marquis of Kimston's father -- an aged, flamboyant man. Caroline comes to love him after a fashion but he dies the morning after their wedding. Was the marriage even consummated? The Marquis, now the duke, holds the purse strings and Caroline finds him heartless in his control over her. Rumors swirl around the dowager duchess and Branville (the duke) succumbs to the gossip and tries to keep Caroline under his thumb. She pours her energy into a charity for indigent women. This is such an interesting story with lots of torment and emotion. The duke and dowager duchess love each other but circumstances and a nasty villian with goals of his own get in their way. It was hard to see how this could end happily for either party! Worth reading, a keeper. Not a light hearted read, it is intense.

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Summary: Noblesse Oblige
Review: This book is perfectly endless. I thought I'd never be done with it. If it was the first novel I'd ever read, I'd never read again. On and on it went, yang, yang, yang.
If this is the only historical romance you have ever read, please don't dismiss them all until you try something else.
For example: Georgette Heyer's books The Convenient Marriage, Sylvester: Or the Wicked Uncle, Frederica
Karen Lynn's books Double Masquerade, The Scottish Marriage, Midsummer Moon
Andrea Pickens' books A Lady of Letters, The Banished Bride
Margaret Rau's book The Hoyden Bride
Hayley Ann Solomon's books Lady Caraway's Cloak, My Lady Luck
These all take place in England with Lord's and Ladies.