Lady Arabella Danvers is happy with her life just the way it is. She is free to be herself and take care of broken and abandoned animals. Her mother is desperate for her to marry, and has decided to take things into her own hands. There is just one little problem with her plan. Nash, the Earl of Clarendon has determined it is time to take a wife. He has selected a woman to whom he intends to … intends to propose. However, the annoying Lady Arabella has stumbled into his life at the wrong time, and in the wrong place.
But he of all people should know if Lady Arabella is involved, plans will go awry.
Each book in the Lords & Ladies in Love series is STANDALONE:
* Seducing the Marquess
* Marrying the Wrong Earl
* Denying the Duke
* Wagering For Miss Blake
* Captivating the Earl
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Nash, the Earl of Clarendon, has always been an honorable gentleman so when he finds himself in an accidental, but compromising position with Lady Arabella, he does the only thing he can and announces they are engaged. Lady Arabella is a free spirit and her life’s passion is rescuing and saving injured animals. The last thing she wants is to be married to a straight-laced Earl.
This book is about letting go of one’s arrogance and stubbornness and learning to compromise. Neither Nash nor Arabella want to change and therein lies most of the conflict in the book. There is a minor mystery going on in the book about declining revenues at Nash’s country estate, but I had that figured out early on. Ms. Hutton writes well, but I didn’t feel any scorching heat between the H and h. I would have liked to have seen more conflict between Nash and Arabella than just being set in their ways. Don’t get me wrong–It was a pleasant story overall that comes to a predicable end. If you’re looking for a quick and easy read, this story will delight you.
I have been provided with an ARC of Marrying the Wrong Earl from Entangled Publishing through NetGalley for an impartial review. This is the first book I have read by Callie Hutton and it will not be the last. This book is the second book in the Lords & Ladies in Love series and it is written to be a standalone so I wasn’t confused by not having read the first book in the series. This book just had me laughing so much to see what other interesting things would happen. I loved getting to see Lady Arabella and Nash find each other and how they get through their differences. I can’t wait to read more by this author.
This is a delightful book about a very headstrong stubborn young woman who refuses to change her ways and a true dyed in the mill straitlaced upstanding gentleman of the ton. Lady Arabella’s mother is anxious to marry her off so that she will have a secure future. Arabella does not know why her mother is pressuring her. Arabella does not know that her late father tossed everything of value away. Her mother’s security was gone and her dowry was what they were living on. Arabella’s mother was matching her up with men old enough to be her grandfather and she has turned down all the proposals for marriage so far. Her mother feeling desperate that this is Arabella’s last chance to marry sets up compromising situation between her and Earl of Pembroke. But as bad luck would have it, it was Nash, the Earl of Clarendon who ended up in a compromising situation with Arabella. they hardly knew each other but propriety demanded Nash offer for her. Arabella did not want to marry and offered to be fake engaged for a time then Nash could cry off. Nash simply refused. She would be ruined and his reputation tarnished. She had no choice but to marry. She had one quirk she refused to budge on. She took in injured animals of all types and healed them back to health. Nash was having none of it but compromised that he would build a kennel out of doors for the dogs and a shed for the other animals. But none were to live in the house. Arabella and Nash were new to being married and had a lot to learn about give and take, compromising, and what it meant to love one another. They experience took them from bad to worse to the point where they separated. This is an enjoyable read about the growing pangs of marriage and of life.