Regency #2
THE UNLIKELY YOUNG LADY
Clearly young Lady Katharine Brandon, 17, was a beauty, with her rich auburn hair, striking green eyes, flawless face and form. But a beauty was one thing Katharine clearly had no interest in being.
She dressed in a young man's breeches, practiced dueling with pistol and rapier, gambled with cards, defied her father's commands and evaded all suitors.
Imagine Katharine's surprise when the fabulously wealthy, notoriously pleasure-loving , 27 year old Julien St. Clair, Earl of March, demanded her as his wife. Imagine her dismay when her father asked and received his price for yielding her to this man. But no one in all of English society could ever imagine what could happen when a lord who would not be denied and a woman who refused to be mastered turned marriage into a game in which it took far more than love to conquer all ....
Regency Series:
The Countess (Regency, #1)
The Rebel Bride (Regency, #2)
The Heir (Regency, #3)
The Duke (Regency, #4)
Lord Harry (Regency, #5)
Book Details
Format
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10
0451404327
ISBN-13
9780451404329
Publication Date
Jan 1994
Item Weight
0.45 pounds
Length
6.85 inch
Width
4.21 inch
Height
1.02 inch
First Sentence
Julien St. Clair, earl of March, settled his palm on her white belly, lay back on the large canopied bed, and looked beneath half-closed lids at the dancing patterns cast by the firelight on the opposite wall.
Jean Catherine Coulter was born on 26 December 1942 in Cameron County, Texas, USA, where she grew up in a horse ranch. She graduated from the University of Texas and earned a degree at Boston College in early 19th-century European History.
Catherine married Anton Pogany, a medical student, and she took a job as a speech writer for a Wall Street company president. She spent many of her evenings alone, reading romance novels. One night when they were home together, she found herself in the middle of a particularly bad book and threw it across room, asserting that even she could do better. Her husband challenged her to prove herself, and the two spent the weekend plotting out a storyline for a gothic romance. Coulter wrote the novel in the evenings, and when she finish it, she sent it to an editor at Signet. Her novel "The Autumn Countess" was published in 1978. She says that chose a Regency romance for her debut because: "as any published author will tell you, it's best to limit the unknowns in a first book, and not only had I grown up reading Georgette Heyer, but I earned my M.A. degree in 19th century European History.". She became a bestseller novelist, and she earned her reputation writing historical romances, but now also writes contemporary romances.
Catherine lives in Marin County, California with her husband, Anton Pogany, now a physician.
