I am really looking forward to his redemption right now. Oh when Mayne thinks to himself that he is 'tarnished' it made my eyes water a little bit! He decides that he is going to 'save' Imogen and is calling it his 'penance'. I' m starting to feel bad for the way he has been treated throughout these two books.

Tess does a good job of subtly insulting him throughout their conversation and Mayne just lets it go. The Earl of Mayne suggests becoming acquainted with Imogen would damaged his reputation even more but Tess just shrugs it off saying if he cared he would have improved his reputation years ago. Oh sad, I don' t like how Tess wanted to use the Earl of Mayne told him to have an affair with her widowed sister Imogen to keep her from flaunting herself at parties.

As the reader it was very easy to forgive Annabel' s desire to marry for money, she didn' t want the life she came from of fighting to survive.Īnd again Imogen butting her way into what is suppose to be her sisters story. Annabel is singularly driven to marry a rich man and could just be written off as a gold digger but the author gives background story here and there on how Annabel' s father made her keep the accounts and how she had to scrimp and save to make sure the family had enough to eat and survive on. I give major kudos to the author to be able to make Annabel likeable. And she learns – in the bridal bedchamber and elsewhere – that there is more to marriage than just kissing… Read moreĮwan asking Annabel to marry him when he first meets her was a cute scene. Yet when she arrives at the Earl's Scottish Estate – contrary to what she had been lead to believe – she finds the hovel to be a castle and her Earl far from impoverished. For what would she get if she married him? Why, nothing but a faded Scottish title and a hovel in the highlands.īut by some cruel twist of fate Annabel finds herself in a carriage bound for Scotland (the place she abhors) with the penniless Ardmore – and with all the world thinking they're man and wife! To make matters worse Annabel becomes embroiled in a flirtatious game of words with the Earl – in which the prize is a kiss…and the forfeit… A moment of passionate madness with Ardmore and the choice is clear – marriage or disgrace. When the dashing Earl of Ardmore tempts Miss Annabel Essex, the most unattainable of the four beautiful Essex sisters, with the promise of a kiss, she resists, just as she snubs his teasing offers of marriage. A Regency historical from the New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James, bound to delight Heyer fans.

Kiss me annabel by eloisa james