Oh, faithful reader, I’m sure you see where this is going. During the visit, his grandmother begs Rothbury and Charlotte to have a pretend ceremony in the same spot she married his grandfather.
Rothbury invites Charlotte and her mother to visit the estate and tells his grandmother that Charlotte is his betrothed – in French…the only language his grandmother will speak and a language Charlotte does not speak. His grandmother is not quite in touch with reality and has told Rothbury she will sell the estate if he doesn’t marry quickly. In return, Charlotte wants Rothbury to help her make Lord Tristan jealous and sorry he didn’t choose her and find a suitor to marry since this will be her last season and she doesn’t want to marry a friend of her elderly parents.Īs it turns out, Rothbury does need her help – not to win Lady Rosalind but to keep his grandmother from selling the one solvent ( but unentailed) property the family owns.
And friends help each other, right? So she offers to help Rothbury win the supposed object of his affection, her friend and neighbor, Lady Rosalind Devine. She understands that he is saving her from humiliating herself in front of the other guests and even begins to enjoy the dance.Īfter his kind gesture, Charlotte decides that she and Rothbury are friends. Charlotte is devastated but before she embarrasses herself by running out of the ballroom, Rothbury intercepts her and forces her to dance with him. When she is chosen as a participant in the Bride Hunt Ball, it seems her feelings might be returned – alas Lord Tristan proposes to another. Charlotte has been in love with Lord Tristan since he rescued her and her mother from an overturned carriage. She is quiet, sometimes painfully shy, and watched over by a very strict mother. Still, watching her pine for his best friend, Lord Tristan Devine, has not been easy.Ĭharlotte Greene knows she is not one of the most sought after young ladies. Rothbury knows he isn’t the right sort of man for her. Why, then, has his attention been snagged by a shy, sometimes stuttering, wallflower of a lady? And it isn’t a passing interest – oh not at all! – for six years he has watched over Miss Charlotte Greene from afar. The earls of Rothbury have long been known for decadence, rakishness and all manner of things that made them dangerous to the young misses of the ton and Adam Faramond, current Earl of Rothbury, is no exception. Historical romance, released 25 August 2009 by Avon C2’s review of To Wed a Wicked Earl by Olivia Parker
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