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To Seduce a Bride: A Rouge Regency Romance
To Seduce a Bride: A Rouge Regency Romance
Oct 25, 2024 8:21 AM

Author:Nicole Jordan

To Seduce a Bride: A Rouge Regency Romance

The thrill of the chase…

Free-spirited Lilian Loring doesn’t believe in love. For her, marriage is best avoided entirely, despite what her parents – and society – think.

So when the charismatic Marquess of Claybourne – a notorious rake – begins to show interest, she goes into hiding in a scandalous boarding house.

Never having had a woman discourage his advances before, Claybourne is set on winning Lilian’s hand – even if he must besmirch his reputation…

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Reviews

Jordan deftly balances wit, romance, and adventure in the third Loring sister's enchanting love story. The courtship wars Jordan's delightful characters engage in are worth fighting, and with plots like this, one can only hope the battles continue.

—— Romantic Times

To Seduce a Bride is one sexy read. Watching the chase of Heath and Lilian was like watching a great tennis match. Heath has charm and sex appeal that just drips off the pages. I loved the spirited Lilian. Nicole Jordan crafts a stunning tale with characters that leave a lasting impression. Their chemistry is strong, the dialogue exquisite and the writing superb.

—— Coffee Time Romance

To Seduce a Bride is a heart-melting courtship with high emotions. Heath is devious; a man who knows what he wants and will do whatever it takes to get it. Lily is headstrong, but has a heart of gold. I just loved the characters in this story. This is the third installment in the Loring sisters' adventures. I highly recommend reading all three of them.

—— Fresh Fiction

This is a compelling story with lots of twists. Made me laugh and also think

—— Jane Correy's June Bookshelf , Midweek Herald

Another excellent, engaging read from Moriarty, who specialises in changing the way you see everything

—— WI Life

A breezy thriller

—— Sunday Mirror

Praise for Liane Moriarty

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Every single one of her books is a great read

—— E! Online

Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly

—— Sunday Express

One of the few writers I'll drop anything for

—— Jojo Moyes

Keeps you guessing until the very end

—— Reese Witherspoon

Staggeringly brilliant, literally unputdownable

—— Sophie Hannah

The writing is beautiful: sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always compelling

—— Good Housekeeping

So well written that it pulls you in from the first page

—— Sunday Mirror

A hell of a good book

—— Stephen King

A tense, page-turning story

—— Mail on Sunday

Full of ideas

—— Claire Allfree , Metro

Dazzling

—— Essentials

Fans of Ian McEwan should rejoice with this arrival of this novel, because Sweet Tooth is McEwan's finest work since 2001's Atonement

—— Kevin Power , Sunday Business Post

Given McEwan’s ability to make riveting fiction out of English politics (not easy), it would be hard to imagine anyone better equipped to write such a story... Delicious... Gripping

—— James Lasdun , Guardian

His assumption of a female persona is pitch-perfect

—— Michael Arditti , Daily Mail

No contemporary novelist is more enthralled by what goes on inside the human skull than Ian McEwan... Doubling back and forth across genre boundaries, Sweet Tooth takes risks...this acute, witty novel is a winningly cunning addition to McEwan’s fictional surveys of intelligence.

—— Peter Kemp , Sunday Times

Playful, comic... This is a great big Russian doll of a novel, and in its construction – deft, tight, exhilaratingly immaculate – is a huge part of its pleasure.

—— Julie Myerson , Observer

A thoroughly clever novel...a sublime novel about novels, about writing them and reading them and the spying that goes on in doing both...very impressive...rich and enjoyable.

—— Lucy Kellaway , Financial Times

Gave us another of his delightful posh-totty narrators, young Serena Frome, who is recruited into the intelligence services in the 1970s.

—— Kate Saunders , The Times

What you see is not what you get, and the twist at the end reminds us of how many of this author’s works confound readers imaginations... A well-crafted pleasure to read, its smooth prose and slippery intelligence sliding down like cream.

—— Amanda Craig , Independent

Simultaneously a tongue-in-cheek riff on his own early stories, a typically assured spy novel with a sting in the tail, and a meditation on the relationship between reader and writer.

—— Justine Jordan , Guardian

The true subject of this smart and tricky novel, set inside a cold war espionage operation, is the border between make-believe and reality.

—— New York Times

A wisecracking thriller hightailing between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in... This is ultimately a book about writing, wordplay and knowingness.

—— Catherine Taylor , Sunday Telegraph

A triumphant shedding of genre limitations.

—— Adam Mars-Jones , London Review of Books

For most of its length, this account of a young woman's adventures in the British secret service of the 1970s reads like Le Carre-lite, but with McEwan nothing is ever quite as it seems and towards the end the reader is asked to re-examine what's gone before. Real-life friends and acquaintances of the author have walk-on parts, which you may find fascinating.

—— Irish Independent

Given McEwan’s ability to make riveting fiction out of English politics (not easy), it would be hard to imagine anyone better equipped to write such a story... Delicious... Gripping.

—— James Lasdun , Guardian

Parallels and contrasts between the mind-sets and mind games of espionage agents and writers of fiction are deftly teased out... acute, witty, cunningly crafted and full of fascinating autobiographical insights.

—— Peter Kemp , Sunday Times

Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny.

—— Arminta Wallace , Irish Times

Had McEwan, through Serena’s benefit of hindsight in narrating her life, planted the clues? Let every reader have the pleasure of finding out.

—— Ion Trewin , Sunday Express

A curious piece of autobiographical fiction.

—— David Sexton , Evening Standard

McEwan’s prose is controlled, his observation forensic as ever... McEwan carries us with irresistible momentum to a surprise ending.

—— Maggie Ferguson , Intelligent Life

Highly entertaining.

—— John Lanchester , Guardian

The great thing about McEwan is that, despite his success, he continues to work hard, producing ever more accessible and entertaining stories.

—— Henry Sutton , Daily Mirror

An artful game of distortion... Clever handling.

—— Anthony Quinn , Mail on Sunday

Carefully researched.

—— John Scarlett , Daily Telegraph

I loved it. It reminded me of his most successful novel, Atonement.

—— Harpers Bazaar Online

Adroitly done...highly diverting.

—— D.J. Taylor , Literary Review

McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self.

—— GQ

Fans of Ian McEwan should rejoice with this arrival of this novel, because Sweet Tooth is McEwan's finest work since 2001's Atonement.

—— Kevin Power , Sunday Business Post

His assumption of a female persona is pitch-perfect.

—— Michael Arditti , Daily Mail

Must read... Intrigue, love and mutual betrayal by a master of the art.

—— The Lady

Gripping.

—— Evening Standard ES Magazine

Full of ideas.

—— Claire Allfree , Metro

Cleverly metafictional.

—— Sam Leith , Prospect

One of the most hotly anticipated novels of the year...it’s brilliant.

—— Sunday Business Post

McEwan, as always, presents an engaging narrator... The plot is fantastic... McEwan plays with the readers expectations, and surpasses them all with a fabulous ending that makes me itch to re-read this superb novel all over again. Sweet Tooth marks another triumph for a brilliant British author.

—— Bookgeeks.co.uk

A pleasing, tricksy beast with a subsumed sense of metatextuality likely to be pleasing to his fans.

—— Bookmunch

This most cunning of authors entertains and manipulates his readers. Sweet Tooth is a masterclass in the art of fiction.

—— Paul Sidey , Book Oxygen

Ian McEwan proves he’s still the master penman with his twelfth novel.

—— Grazia

Dazzling.

—— Essentials
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