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ENTICING MISS EUGENIE VILLARET by Ella Quinn

I was devastated by this book.  It had so much potential and had me all excited and then.........and then........... (starts crying) , I just can't say it yet, go on and read my review. William, Viscount Wivenly, is determined to remain a bachelor for the rest of his life.  His elusiveness is what makes him even more irresistible to woman and William finds himself caught in many a scheme to trap him into marriage from the young ladies of the ton as well as their mother's. Finding a way to get escape from it all in the form of a task bestowed on him by his father, William sets off to the West Indies to solve the problem that seems to be plaguing a member of the family.  Once that task is down, William intends to fully sample the local wares, and I don't mean the food. Determined to help her family despite what her mother says, Miss Eugenie Villaret will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of her family's financial problems.  Enlisting the help of her ch...

MINX by Julia Quinn

An historical romance about an eccentric young lady who did know better but just did not care, my kind of lady. When her guardian dies, the arrival of the new one has her wanting to know better.  Miss Henrietta Barrett, who rather be called Henry, runs around managing Cornwall Estate all by herself, wearing breaches instead of frocks. Henry is quite happy with just the way things are and tries to come up with ways to run off the new Lord, but her plans backfires when William Dunford, the new Lord Cornwall was up to the challenge and made Henry feel  like a Henrietta. Any book where the main character is eccentric is a book for me, this is one of the good books filled with mischief, acceptance, misunderstanding and love.  Henry had too much freedom growing up but now that she has to conform herself to rules she acts out. William does not quite what to do with Henry so he naturally assumes that she must be reformed and made into a proper lady. T...