At the advanced age of twenty-seven, vicar’s daughter Prudence Pentrye is on the shelf. Content to occupy her time by attending meetings of Mr. Wilberforce’s Abolition Society and helping her father administer vaccines in an effort to prevent a small pox epidemic, Prudence is resolved to see that her younger cousin Margaret does not share her own unmarried fate.But Margaret is plain and shy. She … She is repulsed when a swashbuckling baronet, Sir James Brownell, makes her an offer of marriage. With his sunburned skin, eye patch, and indifference to fashion, Sir James is not Margaret’s idea of a romantic suitor. Nor does Margaret enjoy his tales of fighting against Malay pirates and trekking through tropical jungles on the island of Bor-neo in hopes of capturing a living orangutan.Prudence, however, finds herself secretly smitten. Will she maintain control of her trai-torous heart or will she trust God to make her life richer and more rewarding than the one she had planned for herself?
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Regency novels are some of my favorite reads. Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer have set the standard in this genre making it a challenge for other talented authors to successfully follow in their footsteps. Enter Shirley Raye Redmond. It has been several months since I have read a Regency novel that I have so thoroughly enjoyed as Prudence Pursued. …