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Neglected and mistreated, desperate for a better life, a young woman bargains her fortune for her future. Fortune Knocks Once is the story of a marriage of convenience between a young, insecure heiress who has nothing to lose and everything to gain by marrying, and a penniless, desperate... read more
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Neglected and mistreated, desperate for a better life, a young woman bargains her fortune for her future.
Fortune Knocks Once is the story of a marriage of convenience between a young, insecure heiress who has nothing to lose and everything to gain by marrying, and a penniless, desperate... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Colin Butler: Marquess of Ormonde, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland
- Charlotte Warwick: Twenty-year-old orphan with debilitating stuttering
- Charles Treadwell: Charlotte's debauched uncle, who is her guardian
- Lady Elizabeth Seymour: Aristocratic friend of Colin's who befriends Charlotte and initiates her into Society
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“But for the first time since she had come to London to her uncle’s house, the safety of her room didn’t beckon to her with its usual promised shelter. The familiar sensation of secure isolation didn’t hold its usual appeal. The heroes of her fairy tale dreams who lulled her to sleep and carried her into a perfect fantasy world didn’t have a chance against the dark, laughing eyes and handsome visage of the stranger in the hall.”
Charlotte
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First Sentence edit
Sprawled in a comfortable overstuffed settee and surrounded by eight other men, all in various stages of drunken stupor and dissolute ennui, Colin Butler felt completely and utterly alone…alone in this room…alone in his wretched life…alone in all of God’s great and glorious creation.
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Eliizabeth Delavan (Author)
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Add the suggested reading level for this book.Not for Children
Subjects edit
- Books › Romance › Regency
- Books › Romance › Historical
- Books › Literature & Fiction
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