A YANKEE PRIVATEERIn Regency England anything is possible if one has the money and influence. The devious Marquess of Cargrave does, and he blackmails his American grandson into becoming his heir. Jason Beaumont, former Yankee privateer, finds himself the new Earl of Falconridge and on the verge of being leg shackled. He is not happy.AN ENGLISH HEIRESSThe Honorable Rachel Fairchild, daughter to … Rachel Fairchild, daughter to Cargrave’s oldest friend, Viscount Harleigh, is threatened by her father with even more odious marriage choices if she does not wed the man the Ton has labeled “the Yankee earl.” But Jason is a toad stool, nothing more than a jumped up pirate. She is not happy.
A DEVIL’S BARGAIN
The two first collide, quite literally, while somebody is shooting at Jason. In spite of the danger, he and Rachel strike sparks from each other in a battle of wits. Rachel devises a plan that will enable Jason is to escape England, thus freeing them both from a fate worse than death–marriage…to each other! If only the Yankee clodpole weren’t so damnably witty and handsome. Jason quickly sees that his sharp-tongued “Countess” is right. They must work together to avoid leg-shackling…if only she weren’t so damnably bright and beautiful. As the squabbling pair matches wits with the manipulative old marquess, mysterious assassins and kidnappers menace them. Rachel begins to wonder if marrying the wild Yankee would be so terrible after all. Jason slowly realizes that only a fool would not claim the willful “Countess” as his own, and the Yankee earl is nobody’s fool.
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Good book but I think I’ve read it before. Not sure why I feel that way.
This was a fun book. I enjoyed it.
Enjoyable read, and I’ll read more by this author.
Easy and simple to read.
I really had started to like the story, thinking they were a witty/snarky pair. However, the constant badgering of hateful words literally became more abusive. At first, their interplay was cute and witty, but with Jason and Rachel constantly belittling each other, it left a bad taste in the mouth. There was no way I could believe that they were falling in love with the constant hatefulness they were spouting at each other all the way to the end of the book, then suddenly they loved each other? Others may see this differently, but this is not the book or series for me.
I normally love this genre of books, but this one is hard for me, I have skipped ahead so many times but put it up and read other books. Someday I might actually finish it.
I didn’t enjoy the book as much as I thought I would. The stubbornness & pride of both MCs gets really tiring after a while. It also looks like the author tried to thrown in as much teen fantasies as possible; wet clothes, wet & muddy clothes, naked voyeurism in lake, and so on. Also, too much emphasis on her tallness, and his abundant chest hair! Then there’s the fact that both of them don’t know what the other’s feelings about them is, and they never try to talk it through, so they just keep guessing and assuming – wrongly – practically right up to the very end. Thank goodness there were sub-plots, as they made something to look forward to, & an unexpected plot-twist towards the end. And by the way, LOADS of punctuation mistakes in the book! Almost every time direct speech began with “That…” there would be no opening inverted commas. There were missing full-stops, and quite a few typos, that all in all I gave up sending edits to Amazon through my Kindle.