I am very pleased to welcome Martha Waters to the blog today as she tours the internet with her new book, To Marry and to Meddle. It is the third book in the Regency Vows series.
About To Marry and to Meddle:
The “sweet, sexy, and utterly fun” (Emily Henry, author of People We Meet on Vacation) Regency Vows series continues with a witty, charming, and joyful novel following a seasoned debutante and a rakish theater owner as they navigate a complicated marriage of convenience.
Lady Emily Turner has been a debutante for six seasons now and should have long settled into a suitable marriage. However, due to her father’s large debts, her only suitor is the persistent and odious owner of her father’s favorite gambling house. Meanwhile, Lord Julian Belfry, the second son of a marquess, has scandalized society as an actor and owner of a theater—the kind of establishment where men take their mistresses, but not their wives. When their lives intersect at a house party, Lord Julian hatches a plan to benefit them both.
With a marriage of convenience, Emily will use her society connections to promote the theater to a more respectable clientele and Julian will take her out from under the shadows of her father’s unsavory associates. But they soon realize they have very different plans for their marriage—Julian wants Emily to remain a society wife, while Emily discovers an interest in the theater. But when a fleeing actress, murderous kitten, and meddlesome friends enter the fray, Emily and Julian will have to confront the fact that their marriage of convenience comes with rather inconvenient feelings.
With “an arch sense of humor and a marvelously witty voice that rivals the best of the Regency authors” (Entertainment Weekly), Martha Waters crafts another fresh romantic comedy that for fans of Julia Quinn and Evie Dunmore.
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You can purchase To Marry and To Meddle on Amazon.com
About the Author:
Martha Waters was born and raised in sunny South Florida, where she spent her childhood reading lots of British children’s books and scribbling away in notebooks. She studied history and international studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also received a master’s degree in library science.
She is the author of the historical rom-coms To Have and to Hoax, To Love and to Loathe, and To Marry and to Meddle; her books have received starred reviews, and frequently appear on lists of most anticipated romances.
By day, she works as a children’s librarian in coastal Maine, and loves sundresses, gin cocktails, and traveling.
My Opinion:
Sometimes a young woman is presented to the ton but is not chosen for reasons far beyond her control. In the case of our heroine, Lady Emily it is due to her father and his inability to pay back his debts.
Our hero, Lord Julian holds many of those debts and he needs something more than money though - he needs the respectability that a wife of good family will bring him. So he and Lady Emily come to an agreement. They will marry but there will be no love involved. None at all. It’s all a marriage of convenience for both of them
Until it isn’t.
And that, my dear readers is the joy of books such as these. The depth of that joy is always dependent on how the author presents the individuals and their backstories for we all know that love is hiding in the nooks and crannies of their purported agreements to marry for convenience.
To Marry and to Meddle gives the reader a fun and easy read with engaging characters in a story that while familiar is also just enough different to keep the pages turning. I read the book in a day and I was thoroughly entertained.
Rating:
4
