Showing posts with label Edinburgh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edinburgh. Show all posts

Monday, October 3, 2022

First Comes Scandal; A Bridgerton Prequel by Julia Quinn

 First Comes Scandal; A Bridgerton Prequel by Julia Quinn - 275 pages



She was given two choices…

Georgiana Bridgerton isn’t against the idea of marriage. She’d just thought she’d have some say in the matter. But with her reputation hanging by a thread after she’s abducted for her dowry, Georgie is given two options: live out her life as a spinster or marry the rogue who has ruined her life.

Enter Option #3

As the fourth son of an earl, Nicholas Rokesby is prepared to chart his own course. He has a life in Edinburgh, where he’s close to completing his medical studies, and he has no time—or interest—to find a wife. But when he discovers that Georgie Bridgerton—his literal girl-next-door—is facing ruin, he knows what he must do.

A Marriage of Convenience

It might not have been the most romantic of proposals, but Nicholas never thought she’d say no. Georgie doesn’t want to be anyone’s sacrifice, and besides, they could never think of each other as anything more than childhood friends… or could they?

But as they embark upon their unorthodox courtship they discover a new twist to the age-old rhyme. First comes scandal, then comes marriage. But after that comes love…

This is the 4th book in the prequel series to the Bridgerton series.  It is interesting reading the back stories of the aunts and uncles of the Bridgerton's.

Monday, February 13, 2012

The Forgotten Affairs of Youth by Alexander McCall Smith

The Forgotten Affairs of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel by Alexander McCall Smith - 261 pages

The eighth book in this gently humorous series, set in Edinburgh. Isabel reluctantly agrees to help an Australian colleague, on sabbatical in Scotland, locate the biological father she has never met. Life is further complicated by Isabel's housekeeper, who is receiving investment advice from her spirit guide in the beyond; and an old antagonist's attempt to inveigle Isabel into publishing his nephew's essay in her scholarly Review. Isabel's incorrigible niece, Kat, blames Isabel when she runs afoul of the health inspectors for selling questionable mushrooms in her shop. Meanwhile, Isabel and her fiance, Jamie, are approaching a momentous decision in their personal relationship.