HEIR TO A DUKE, A DEBUTANTE AND AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE It couldn’t have been any more perfect…Miss Louella Rose is Sweet, Beautiful. Refined. The answer to all her family’s woes. But beneath her flawless complexion, behind her mesmerizing eyes, she hides a secret shame.STANTON promised to marry the woman of his father’s choice by the age of thirty and that time has finally come. To his surprise … To his surprise and delight, the chosen lady is the perfect debutante, for him anyhow, and he couldn’t be happier… until he discovers the scars that make no sense – scars that shatter the illusion of perfection.
LIES, greed and blood lay waste to a most promising marriage. Can their love overcome the ravages of guilt and carry them through life’s imperfections?
Historical romance unlike any others…
The Perfect Regency Series
Book 1: The Perfect Debutante
Book 2: The Perfect Spinster
Book 3: The Perfect Christmas
Book 4: The Perfect Arrangement
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The author deals remarkably well with a subject that is very current. So many young women today deal with this problem. I think she did a good job of trying to help people understand cutting when the people who engage in it don’t even understand why they do it. I enjoyed this book.
This story takes up the serious question of what we now call “cutting”. Ms Louella Rose is a cutter and is ashamed, but that is not what everyone sees including her fiance. Everyone expects her to be “Perfect”, but who can live up to that word. Even Lord Stanton knows he is not “Perfect” but calls Louella “The Perfect Debutante”. Inside, Louella is an empathic and passionate woman, but the pain of being a replacement for her older sister takes on a life of its own. Lord Stanton forced to marry the woman his father chooses, because of a promise given ten years ago, accepts Louella because she is beautiful and seems “perfect”. Louella can’t see her beauty, because she can’t see the person that she is on the inside. Lord Stanton tries to understand, but keeps wondering why he isn’t enough. The story doesn’t explain it very well, but it’s like drugs, or alcohol. It’s an escape, and something that makes her feel real.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of us could accept each other’s imperfections. A story to cause us to think.
As a former teacher, I had students who were “cutters.” This book was spot on in the description of the young lady who cuts. The acceptance by her husband of her “affliction” is one of the most reliable ways to stop the cutter. This was such an intriguing book! Worth the read!
The author did a wonderful job of weaving a serious condition of cutting into a historical fiction novel.
I did not like the content of this book. Almost did not finish.
Apropos for our world right now. “Perfection”; highly overrated, and a twisted way to live. It has results. How we deal with our life with all its roses and raspberries is the key. This is a well-written series, and I have actually purchased the rest!
Keep up the good work!
I didnt find it believable.
A wonderful first book in series
This is a wonderfully written start to what promises to be a great series. The plot is unique in so far as it includes the trials of self harming. The characters are beautifully portrayed, with the determination to overcome their problems. This is a great book that would be suitable for anybody who loves steamy historical romances
It was enjoyable to read.
The story line was great but for me , it was not a clean romance. Depicting sexual body parts and describing the actual acts bordered on pornography. I had to skip pages to ngett through the book.Also using the Lord God’s name over and over as by-words and curse words are not needed to write a good story. It was listed as a clean book. But the story was very interesting. Outside my complaints it was well written.
The Perfect Debutante by Annabelle Anders is a wonderfully written, engaging, romantic and emotional story of Louella and Lord Cameron Stanton.
Louella is the perfect and beautiful debutante on the outside but inside she is hiding feelings of guilt and unworthiness. Cameron is a future Duke who falls for her beauty not realising her secret, their marriage is arranged between their families and all seems perfect but lies and secrets soon emerge.
I thought the topic of ‘cutting’, first I have seen in a regency romance was very well written. Both their characters shine through. Louella is stronger than she thinks and as she falls in love and trusts in Cameron’s support she starts to confront her inner feelings and where they stem from and in time things start to change for her. Cameron was a wonderful character and goes through all the emotions of anger, confusion but most of all compassion and understanding for his wife.
If any lessons are to be learnt from this story, for me, is that there’s nothing wrong in being imperfect, we should embrace our imperfections because that is what makes us.
Well my fellow readers pull up a chair, this review will be a good one. WOW! Where did this writer come from?! Annabelle Anders totally has blown away all of the books that I have recently read. I enjoyed reading this book so much that I couldn’t put it down. Cameron’s love for Louella is so strong.There where times in the book that had me scared to turn the page, but I soldiered on because I just had to know what was going to happen next. Louella is a sweet woman, who really beats herself up in this book as both her and Cameron find their love. Oh yes my fellow readers, read this book, it’s worth it.
This book explores a character flaw not traditionally taken on by the romance genre. I loved this about this story. Not all romance happens between “perfect” people. Even those with seemingly grievous flaws can find that someone to love and who loves them in return.
Louella Rose is perfect. Beautiful. Refined. The answer to all her family’s woes. No one knows that beneath her flawless complexion, behind her mesmerizing eyes, she hides her pain in shame.
Lord Stanton promised to marry the woman of his father’s choice by the age of thirty and that time has finally come. To his surprise and delight, the chosen lady is the perfect debutante, for him anyhow, and he couldn’t be happier… until he discovers the scars that make no sense – scars that shatter the illusion of perfection.
This book contains a well known problem with teens in this time. I’m not sure if it was prevalent in the times of this book but it is written into the plot successfully.
This well written book by Annabelle Anders portrays a pain that was not physical but was made so by the act of cutting.
This engrossing historical romance makes you wonder just how long this phenomenon of cutting has existed.
I gave this well written romance 4.95 of 5.0 stars for storyline and character development.
The hero and heroine have a past from childhood but they were not friends.
I received a complimentary copy of this book to read. This in no way affected my opinion of this book which I read and reviewed voluntarily.
I truly enjoyed reading this Book.
There were a few paragraphs or chapters that repeated themselves, but The Story was Absolutely well written.
To write about a psychological disorder had to be extremely hard. To read about the subject & how a person dealt with it had to be taxing.
While dealing with a sensitive subject, this book completely missed the mark. I forced myself to finish it.
I found it to be a very heartfelt story and couldn’t put it down.
I liked that the storyline was original and not the usual.
I would definitely recommend this book.
I’ve pre ordered the next in the series out this August.
Yes! Another awesome book by one of my new favorite authors!