Jo Beverley, A Most Unsuitable Man
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A Most Unsuitable Man Jo Beverley Signet
A Most Unsuitable Man
Jo Beverley
Signet, Feb 2005, $6.99
ISBN: 0451214234
In 1763, wealthy Damaris Myddleton is stunned when Marquess Ashart proposes to poor companion Genova Smith instead of her. She had set her sights on him and thought he would marry her if for no other reason than he needs money. Realizing she made a fool of herself, she flees, but is stopped by Ash's pal, impoverished former soldier Octavius Fitzroger, who persuades her to hold her head up high. She turns to her host Lord Rothgar, family patriarch and asks him to be her guardian instead of the elderly, avaricious Henry Malloren; he agrees with the stipulation that she serve as companion to Genova.
Rothgar also hired Fitzroger to keep Ash safe from an unknown assailant. As Fitz watches over Ash and Damaris spends time with Genova, they become acquainted and begin to fall in love, which interferes with his task. It helps though frustrates Fitz that she wants a title so he is A MOST UNSUITABLE MAN for a social climber like her.
The latest Malloren tale is a fine Georgian romance but readers at first will be very cold towards the heroine until she is endangered. The storyline is fast-paced on two sub-plots, that of the romance between Fitz and Damaris and the attempts to kill Ash. Jo Beverley effortlessly brings these two themes together along with the return of cast from previous novels into a finely honed historical.
Harriet Klausner
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