Through Lady Charlotte's unfortunate encouragement her
friend Lucy Fletcher was now known as Swan Lucy and Lucy
Feathers. If only Charlotte had not told her the rather
realistic swan-themed bonnet was fetching, Lucy would not
have been the center of frenzied male swans vying for her
attention at the king's Swan Day celebration in Hyde park.
Still. The damage was done and despite Charlotte's deeply
sincere promises to avoid all hint of matchmaking in
future,
it truly was her responsibility to find Lucy a husband. She
simply could not live with the thought of her actions
resulting in Miss Fletcher living out her days as a dried
up
old spinster.
The first bachelor rake to spring to mind is Mr. James
Beauchamp, no longer the apple of her eye he is ripe and
ready to be leg shackled to a young miss. She ignores her
faint pangs of dismay at the thought of anyone but her
being
with him and forges onward with a plan of enforced
confinement that is certain to lead to love and matrimony.
Not necessarily in that order. It really is too bad of
providence to thoroughly disarrange Charlotte's carefully
executed scheme.
Even worse, James seizes the opportunity to develop a few
schemes of his own, targeting Charlotte and the comeuppance
she (in his opinion) so richly deserves.
The irrepressible Charlotte has become one of my favorite
characters. I deeply enjoyed her sense of fun and gift for
wriggling out of the most outlandish situations. Besides,
anyone who has a pet fox named Penelope is someone I would
enjoy knowing. I thoroughly enjoyed the book from first
page to last, accompanying Charlotte as the misfiring of
her
best laid plans led from one absurd and hilarious situation
to the next until romance catches her up in the greatest
scheme of all.
THREE SCHEMES AND A SCANDAL, another episode in Rodale's
Writing Girls series is pure entertainment
unadulterated with any heavy ponderous themes. Maya
Rodale's deft turn of phrase, effortlessly captures the
frothy spirit of the genre with occasionally wicked, witty
undertones that never quite shade over into caricature. Her
choice of words have a bit of the flavor of Jane Austen,
with sly side glances at the preposterous rules of society.
It was the first I've read in the series, but I think I
shall seek out the others. They will be perfect escape
reading for those days when reality drags on a bit.
Scheme: A folly, a swan, a little lie . . . a
compromising position
Lady Charlotte Brandon is always up to something . . .
but somehow her best schemes for matchmaking often end in
disaster.
Scheme: A family feud, outrageously false rumors, a
shattered priceless vase . . . an even more compromising
position
It's no wonder she's considered by at least one
devastatingly handsome man to be devious, destructive, and
dangerously appealing.
Scheme: A fox, a rabbit, a childhood foe, and a dashing
rogue . . . the proposal to end all proposals
It's high time someone turned the tables on the lovely
Lady Charlotte, and James Beauchamp is just the man to do
it. Even if it means beating Charlotte at her devious game
with a scandalous scheme of his own.
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