“Fight me or Marry
me!” Frances Kendrick was not a woman willing to sit idly by and
wait for her Prince Charming. An heiress, the best rider, hunter and
swordsman in the Royal County of Berkshire in the last year's of good
Queen Anne's reign, she found the men presented to her either boring,
stupid, or most often both. Until she met this scapegrace of a
lawyer, Benjamin Child. This sweet romance with a paranormal twist
follows their developing passion and the means they used to bring
their romance to fruition despite the objections of her trustees.
Set in Reading and
thereabouts in 1714, the story commences with the memorial service
for Frances' older brother. Since she is the heiress to a baronet,
Miss Kendrick did not want for suitors. She wanted for acceptable
suitors, as the men she met were simply not up to her standards. When
she finally meets one who is, a circuit-riding barrister named
Benjamin Child, her trustee's refuse their approval. He's too much of
a fortune hunter, gambler and wastrel for their tastes. Despite their
difference in rank and fortune, he's the man for her and she's the
woman for him.
Complications abound
in the story, ranging from a gypsies' curse, to highwaymen, to
nobbling jockey's before a critical horse race, and even to the
activities of the Hellfire Club.
In the meantime, my next, "after the convergence" is about 2/3 there at about 33000 words.
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