Miss Wonderful

A Romance Novel by Loretta Chase

Book 1 of the Carsington Family Series

Subgenres & Tropes:

Historical Romance,
Regency Romance,
Opposites Attract

Published 2004

Length 354 pages

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This book is for you if you're into...

Romances where the heroine is as clever and stubborn as the hero
Country house clashes with witty, exasperating banter
Heroes trying to outrun their own worst impulses

Publisher Description

The first book in the Carsington Family series from award-winning romance author Loretta Chase!

Alistair Carsington really, really wishes he didn't love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from civilization: Derbyshire—in winter!—where he hopes to kill two birds with one stone: avoid all temptation, and repay the friend who saved his life on the fields of Waterloo. But this noble aim drops him straight into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a woman every bit as intelligent, obstinate, and devious as he—and maddeningly irresistible.

Mirabel Oldridge already has her hands full keeping her brilliant and aggravatingly eccentric father out of trouble. The last thing she needs is a stunningly attractive, oversensitive and over-bright aristocrat reminding her she has a heart—not to mention a body he claims is so unstylishly clothed that undressing her is practically a civic duty.

Could the situation be any worse? And why does something that seems so wrong feel so very wonderful?

with Loretta Chase

“ I want the (story's) history to be authentic, so that my readers feel they're time traveling to early 1800s England, although it's an idealized version of that world. ”