The Most Eligible Bride in London is a well-written book with well developed characters. The storyline is one which could be plausible in real life. Smooth read - it was hard to put down once I started. Highly recommend! ( )

It's not hard to believe that redemption is a process and not a moment of clarity. Nate Meadows, Viscount Fotherby, made a horrible choice in The Marquis Chooses a Bride, he ran off with the bride, thinking he was saving his best friend from a lifetime of misery. Of course he was wrong, believed the wrong people whispering in his ear, mostly because he wanted to. Luckly he retired to the country for a few years and learned how to be a proper, thoughtful man. His willingness & desire to help others leads him to Henrietta Stern and darn it, she's the other lady's sister. Now comes the hardest part, asking forgiveness from those he wronged. Henrietta is such a lovely young woman. She's kind and wants to do more than sip tea and gossip. Her charitable works extend to Nate's cause & healing that old riff. It's a nice story and Nate's progression is so much more believable and compelling than his being given an easy out. I found this book to be a better read than some of the other characters stories. I'm looking forward to the next in the series, the youngest girls & it's bound to be a doozy of trouble.

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A heartwarming story of redemption and acceptance that will turn you into a thorough believer in love at first sight. I loved that there weren’t any ‘grand epiphany’ moments, just a steady movement from an exciting first meeting through a most delightful HEA. When I learned who the male lead was, I wondered how the author was going to redeem him. You see, he was the villain in When a Marquis Chooses a Bride from the Worthingtons series. He was a misguided villain, but a villain nonetheless. However, he’s spent the last four years changing himself from the useless fribble he was to a caring, honorable man who is absolutely nothing like the man who existed four years ago. All of that has occurred off-page between the previous book and this one. So, redemption has already occurred – we are only dealing with forgiveness and making amends – and falling in love.

Nathanael (Nate), Viscount Fotherby, has spent the last four years living on his country estate because of a vile thing he did. He has used those years to learn and grow as a human. He has spent the time learning to manage his estates, learning to appreciate and care for those who are dependent on him – especially his tenants and neighbors, and learning that he really wasn’t who he thought he was. He was who his father had made him into and now that he’s been on his own all this time, he’s realized what it is to actually appreciate others – no matter their rank – to be useful, and to help others whenever he can. Helping a neighbor is what has brought him back to London and it is how he came to be in the time and place to help rescue a young woman who was being threatened by thugs. She was the most arresting woman he’s ever seen and he’d surely like to see her again. He doesn’t even learn her name.

Miss Henrietta Stern is very much a forward-thinking young lady. She is about to begin her second season but hasn’t seen anyone at all who piques her interest. Well, she hadn’t until that handsome man came to her aid as she was trying to rescue a baby. There was just something about him and she just really wishes she had learned his name.

Nate and Henrietta meet and are attracted before they learn that she is the sister of the woman he had abducted. Henrietta has heard all of the tales and descriptions of that dandified fribble and the man she met seems nothing like that at all. They can work out their differences, but can they get her family – especially her sister – to forgive?

I thoroughly enjoyed seeing these two come to care for each other and work together to bring about their own HEA. The story is well-written, well-plotted, and excellently delivered. I hope you will give it a try and that you will love it as much as I did.

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