The Marquis She's Been Waiting For
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Dashing as they may be, Ella Quinn’s eligible bachelors have much to learn about life and love. Fortunately, just the right ladies are willing to instruct them …
Lady Dorcus Calthorp, daughter of the Marquis of Huntington, loved and lost during her first Season, leaving her suspicious of gentlemen. Now Dorie finds herself with no marital prospects in sight—until Alexander, the newly elevated Marquis of Exeter, arrives in town. Handsome, charming, and an interesting conversationalist, he at first seems to be her perfect match. Then Dorie discovers he may not be seeking a wife so much as a land steward and mother to his sisters…
After learning of his father’s death, Alexander returns home to find his mother has run off with his land steward, leaving his younger sisters with their governesses. The most expedient solution is a wife who will take the household and estate in hand while he assumes his role in parliament. Lady Dorie meets all the requirements—until she makes a surprising proposal. Instead of marrying Alexander, she will tutor him in his duties, freeing him to find his heart’s match. Yet the more Dorie teaches him, the more he longs to change their course of study—to love. And with the end of the Season nearing, he doesn’t have much time...
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The heart is not to be commanded
This is my second read by Mrs Ella Quinn, and she is one author who does not rush her stories.
This was a slow burn romance, the plot moved slowly giving time to Lady Dorcus Caltrop and the Marquis Of Exeter to get to know another, challenge the other and understand in time they were made for each other.
At first I did not understand Dorie’s character, I knew she felt hurt to have engaged her hope to the wrong man. But did she knows why he didn’t gave suit to his courting? Their personalities were not matching. When one is looking for an obedient bride, a managing woman is surely not the right one.
Then why being weary of the new titled Marquis?
He is newly titled and she does not know him.
Then she explained she was expecting a love match, and her managing self has settle on the idea she can choose with whom she will fall for.
What a the silly notion she could decide on someone and fall in love.
It is not something to command and the men she has put on her list, only rise middle feelings for the best or none.
She even got angry at herself when she senses she is more attracted to Alex than to all her potential suitors.
Still she can’t scratch to analyze her feelings and continue to push him away by trying to find the right woman for him and awaken new sentiments not always kind to her heart.
Sure, Alex was attracted to Dorie for the wrong reason at first. But soon he comes to see her for more than the managing woman who could rule his household and estates.
By not answering his lead, she intrigued him and became a fixture for his brain. How slowly he began to fall for her not even knowing it.
It was entertaining to see all these prim and proper protagonists interacting and finding themselves trapped in the game they thought leading. Misreading the other and misjudging the situations.
Hopefully they are surrounded by very meddling side characters who see straight to their heart and in their own way protected them against their own stubbornness.
The end of the story added a bit of action to the couple’s life until they are properly settled.
A 4.5 stars read.
I was provided through Netgalley an advance copy by the publisher Kensington Books. I purchased my own copy. This is my true and unbiased opinion.