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    • Pub. Date: March 2004
    • 352pp

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      • Pub. Date: March 2004
      • Publisher: Signet
      • Format: Mass Market Paperback, 352pp

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      Robert Rothmore, Earl of Rockford, thinks Alissa Henning is simply delightful-exactly the kind of woman who'd make the perfect mother for his sons. But Alissa swore she'd spend the rest of her life scraping pennies together rather than wed the insufferable earl and become a glorified governess. Still, she couldn't very well let her own children starve-and there was no doubt that Rockford would give them all a good life. So she reluctantly accepts his offer...but there's more to a good life than what's in one's pockets. And Alissa intends to find out what's in her new husband's heart.

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      Breaking out of the traditional Regency market (e.g., The Painted Lady) into the world of historical romance, Metzger serves up a delightful confection of heartwarming romance, humor, and a bit of danger. She takes a viscount in need of a mother for his sons and a widowed vicar's daughter in need of a father for hers and joins them in a marriage of convenience that the heroine is determined to transform into something else. The results, of course, are funny and rewarding-especially when our heroine arrives in London with the four boys in tow! Gently sensual, featuring the expected accurate Regency details, and filled with Metzger's trademark humor, this lighthearted, nicely done romance will please her current Regency fans, as well as garnering new ones among the historical ranks. Metzger lives on Long Island, NY. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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      January 18, 2004: During the Napoleonic troubles, widower Viscount Rockford earned the reputation as a great diplomat, but he will need all his honed skills with his two sons that he rarely sees as he is too busy saving the country and besides he doubts he even sired either of them. He becomes quite upset to learn that Alissa Henning, a widow with two children of her own, has kidnapped his five year old son William. He races to his home from London to rescue his younger child only to find the lad is quite happy living with Alissa and her family after being neglected in Rockford?s home.

      Rockford sees Alissa as the solution to his personal problem as a mother to his two boys as he plans to bring his oldest the ailing twelve year old Hugo home. Alissa has a secret counter plan as she agrees to marry the Viscount since she needs protection and money to raise her children and to support her seventeen year old sister. Her strategy is to win his heart so that their extended families are raised in a sea of love.

      This is a fun Regency romance due to the lead female protagonist who teaches the hero that international diplomacy is important, but so is taking care of family. Readers will feel for Rockford?s two sons raised away from him until he brings Alissa into his life. Though somewhat by the genre rules, readers will find Barbara Metzger?s latest historical simply bliss.

      Harriet Klausner