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Winnifred
Percy didn’t want to be sold into marriage to some English Lord. She just wanted to hold off all suitors until
she was old enough to collect her inheritance.
So, when her parents inform her that they’ve
arranged a marriage, she
does everything she can to convince David Knightsbridge, Earl
Wolshingham, that
she’s unsuitable as a wife.
David could
care less about wedding or bedding Winn.
He thinks her a spoiled brat, but he needs her money
to save his
estate. There’s no way he’s letting her
out of this arrangement her father made for her.
A
historical set in Edwardian New York, A Very Modern Lady is a somewhat typical
historical
tale of the rebellious, feisty virgin being sold into a marriage she
doesn’t
really want only to fall in love with her fiancée.
Ms. Gael has added the slight twist of having
David open Winnifred’s eyes to the supposed sham of Knickerbocker
society, but
in all other ways this is a standard historical. Though
listed as an erotica book by Tigress
Press, I’d have to say that it was not one, as it had little to no real
heat in
it. However, the characters are somewhat
interesting, especially the secondary ones of Winn’s maid, Margaret and
her
brother, Tip. The legacy is intriguing
enough to keep me reading, but I wasn’t truly captured by Winn and
David’s
story.
Reviewed by Meribeth
McCombs for The Road to Romance
April
27, 2004
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