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The Perfect Fiancée
218 pages
A delightfully chaotic Regency romp where strict logic is no match for a house full of animals and an unpredictable heart.
What it feels like
This classic Regency romance offers a delightfully brisk and warm-hearted reading experience, built on the timeless friction between rigid logic and joyful chaos. The narrative thrives on a wry, playful tone, contrasting a cynical, order-obsessed guardian with a heroine whose menagerie of orphaned animals and sprawling clutter turns his quiet bachelor existence upside down. The mood is cozy yet wonderfully disruptive, inviting the reader into a shambolic household where affection sneaks up on those who least expect it. The prose is breezy and character-driven, focusing on the humorous exasperation that slowly melts into genuine romantic attachment. It is a perfect comfort read for anyone who delights in watching a stubbornly practical hero realize that love is the one thing he cannot neatly plan.
- Mood
- cozy
- warm
- chaotic
- Tone
- wry
- lighthearted
- charming
- playful
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- logic versus emotion · unexpected affection · the disruption of orderly lives · opposites attract
- The writing
- Breezy and witty, leaning into the humorous contrast between stiff Regency propriety and domestic absurdity.
- The arc
- Moves from cynical detachment and exasperation to the warm, reluctant surrender to unexpected love.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love classic Regency romances where a rigidly logical hero is undone by a delightfully chaotic heroine.
About the book
MARRIAGE WAS A BUSINESS ARRANGEMENT, CERTAINLY NO PLACE FOR LOVE....
Logical planning had been the key to success in all Lord Maxwell Kampford's ventures, and marriage would be no exception. Too cynical to be taken in by mere beauty, he simply needed to locate a young lady with the proper credentials, and he would have the perfect fiancee.
In the meantime, he must contrive to find a husband for his ward, Miss Amity Fraser. She, along with her menagerie of orphaned animals, her clutter of flowers, books, and--God save him--livestock in his basement, had turned his quiet bachelor existence into a shambles.
The sooner he married her off the better--a proposition that caused him less joy than he should have imagined.
Description from Open Library.
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