The Heiress Hunt
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3.2 • 13 Ratings
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Publisher Description
USA Today Bestselling Author
“Nothing makes me happier than a new book from Joanna Shupe!”—Sarah MacLean
High society reprobate.
An unconventional heiress.
Childhood friends.
Is it too late...
Knickerbocker scoundrel Harrison Archer returns to New York to discover that his deceased father has bankrupted his estranged family. To save them from ruin, he’s forced to quickly find and marry an heiress. For a matchmaker, Harrison turns to the one woman he wishes he could marry: his childhood friend and true love, Maddie, who once broke his heart and is now engaged to a duke.
For true love?
When her best friend Harrison left for Paris without a word, Maddie Webster took refuge in her infatuation with tennis. Now Harrison is back and needs her help in finding a bride. Begrudgingly, Maddie arranges a house party in Newport with a guest list of eligible heiresses. But watching Harrison flirt with potential brides is more than she can bear.
When Harrison and Maddie reunite, the passion between them ignites. But with their marriages to others looming, time is running out. Is their fate inescapable . . .or can love set them free?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Wealth, duty, and passion collide in this juicy Gilded Age romance. When Harrison Archer returns from three hedonistic years in Paris to his family’s New York home in 1895, he learns some harsh news. To save his family from financial ruin, he needs to marry an heiress…quickly. The only woman he can actually imagine himself with is his childhood best friend, witty tennis pro Maddie Webster. But when it turns out that Maddie is being courted by a handsome English duke, Harrison settles for letting her play matchmaker—at least for as long as they can resist each other. We couldn’t get over the sheer electricity pulsing between Harrison and Maddie, not to mention some very steamy, downright blush-inducing bedroom scenes. From dashing blue-eyed gentlemen and stunning headstrong ladies to palatial Newport estates that would make Jay Gatsby seethe with jealousy, the first book in Joanna Shupe’s Fifth Avenue Rebels series has it all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Shupe (the Uptown Girls series) opens her Fifth Avenue Rebels series with this effortlessly diverting Gilded Age romance. When Harrison Archer returns to New York City from France, his estranged and nearly bankrupt family insists he save the family business by marrying an heiress. Harrison has no interest in helping the people who cruelly disowned him but on their list of potential wives is his childhood friend and rising tennis star, Maddie Webster, with whom Harrison has been in love since she was 15, and he seizes the opportunity to reconnect. Maddie, meanwhile, is being courted by a duke and fears scandal if she gives in to her attraction to Archer, having heard rumors of his wild Parisian lifestyle. But when Archer asks her to throw a house party for him in Newport, R.I., and invite her most eligible friends, she can't say no. Shupe's feisty heroine admirably strives for independence in a male-dominated society, while Archer is appealing not only for his devotion to Maddie, but for his fierce drive to avenge his family's mistreatment of him. Their sexual chemistry and dynamic banter, especially during intimate moments, convey an alluring blend of love and playfulness. This character-driven historical romance is sure to delight.
