Lady Charlotte Grand is a wildly intelligent young girl, on the brink of crafting a beautiful life. But there’s just one problem: her parents have agreed to marry her off to a two-faced, arrogant Lord. Since everyone but her seems to be blind to his deceit, she decides to concoct a plan to prove his evil ways. But little did she know, when she traveled to London with her family, that she was … she was about to meet an exciting man, capable of stealing her heart. Will she manage to focus on her mission or will she surrender to her feelings?
Handsome Lord Ewan Conrad is a man of incredible title and status. Despite his wealth, he’s building an importing and exporting business that sends him traveling around different cities and countries. He’s in it for the adventure, even though gossip swirls around him. But when he returns home in London, he’s struck with the beauty and charm of a young Lady. Will he dare to aim at her heart or will the secrets she seems to carry get him away from her?
Soon enough, the heroes are about to find themselves in a whirlwind of gossip, anger and betrayal. Will Charlotte find a way to escape from the terror of the deceitful Lord? And will Ewan and Charlotte find in one another a true soul mate, despite all odds?
“The Secret Plan for a Lady’s Liberation” is a historical romance novel of approximately 80,000 words. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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Lady Charlotte Grant is pledged to marry Lord Felton Seymour by her parents then after they’re married her father will adopt her husband to ensure that the family name continued. Charlotte is found to determine find a way to end her engagement by proving that Lord Seymour is a bad man her parents to take her to London and not announce her engagement and let her enjoy a London season and towards the end of the season announce her engagement she meets Lord Ewan Conrad. What will happen during the season was Charlotte’s plans? If you want to know you must read the book. It’s a good book…
I found this story enchanting, but there are moments that are quite unbelievable. How Lord Conrad dealt with things was strange and made for completely awkward moments. Charlotte was so self absorbed with her situation that she couldn’t understand that if she gave Lord Conrad her heart to him her parents would probably relent from the forced marriage to Lord Felton. They really only wanted an heir to their title. What I don’t understand is why parents have to be written to be the bad guys in these type of novels? I read the extended epilogue for the novel and it’s really just your basic happily ever after with everyone getting what they want, except the bad guy, Lord Felton. This is not one of Abigails Agar’s best works.
A well-written story of secrets, deceit, forced betrothal, a villain, and romance, a story I enjoyed reading. This is Lady Charlotte Grand and Lord Ewan Conrad’s story and everything they have to go through to get a happy ending. A story that flows smoothly from page to page and held my interest until the end.
Charlotte Grant’s parents are in dire straits financially and have agreed to marry her to Lord Seymour Felton, a nasty, arrogant, but extremely wealthy social climber. They want his money and he wants their title. Charlotte definitely doesn’t want Seymour and isn’t sure she even wants marriage. She requests and is given a Season in London with the announcement of her betrothal kept a secret until the end of the Season so she can figure out how to thwart her parents’ plans.
Lord Ewan Conrad is handsome, rich and the heir to a duke, but what he wants is the challenge of business, specifically import/export. A duke’s heir does not enter business and no reputable debutant would want to marry him. Until he meets Charlotte, a whole different kind of debutant.
The idea of the story is interesting – how is Charlotte going to get out of marrying the despicable Seymour. But the story drags and there are too many typos – Ewan watching “houses” driving down the street pulling carriages, for example. And while it is apparently set in the 1890s (Ewan refers to seeing the Eiffel Tower in Paris, which was erected in 1887), much of the language and opinions are late 20th century, early 21st century – “All I’m saying.”, “It’s show time.”, “Sorry about that”, “he’s not into me” “wonky cobblestone. Charlotte’s soliloquies sound like something a modern teenager would say. Her treatment of Ewan is rude. She doesn’t trust her friend Lydia enough to tell her about the secret betrothal. And, while I understand her parents have financial issues, only one servant as housekeeper, doorkeeper, lady’s maid and general maid is odd, since most families have at least a woman and man servant in residence.
All in all, I can’t really recommend this book. It just didn’t work for me.
It is an enjoyable entertaining read although it is a little drawn out for my taste. I kept putting it down and coming back to it. If I absolutely love a book, I read it straight through. This book had its share of emotional drama. The heroine, Charlotte is an outspoken young lady whose parents try to rein in. Felton bamboozles his way into Charlotte’s parents’ good graces and becomes engaged to her against her will. All so he can inherit her father’s noble title and parliamentary seat. Felton is a slimy weasel and was well written to portray the perfect villain. I liked Charlotte’s new best friend Lucy. Lucy had a sunny optimistic attitude. She is naive and thanks to Charlotte’s brazen attitude it gave her the strength to face what she wanted in life. Our hero, Ewan, was a little slow on the uptake with his response to his feelings for Charlotte. His character was written with the thought of him being a gentleman and a successful businessman. His career choice went against society at large as he was the heir to a dukedom and did not have to work. But I admire the fact that since he was little, he wanted to explore the world and experience the wonders contained therein. He also wanted to build his own fortune much to the dismay of his parents and the ton. He was treated unkindly. Gossip followed him everywhere because he did not conform to the established norms. It was sad that both Charlotte and Ewan both had parents that were emotionally unavailable, not demonstrative or loving. They were strict disciplinarians according to social norms. Both Charlotte and Ewan had the same outlook when it came to living. They would never be satisfied with the status quo and would strive to do things their own way. If you have leisurely time this is a great book to snuggle up with.