Noble Destiny

This is a sequel to Noble Intentions. Previous characters are revisited. This is a warm, funny read. Another excellent book by Katie MacAlister. I am looking forward to the next book in the series-The Trouble with Harry.

I happened to pick this book up in a megastore because the cover art caught my eye. I read the back cover blurb and thought I'd pick it up. I've never read such a hysterical romance novel! It kept my interested piqued at all times and I couldn't wait to turn the next page! It was cleverly written, with hilarious plays on words and innuendos in every chapter. The ending was quite unexpected, but well done. I haven't enjoyed a book as much in a very long time. I highly recommend it!

A little slow getting into.. however I thought this one had its own charm. Its a good book to read on a rainy summer day.. Definitly enjoyable

The beautiful - but knows it - Lady Charlotte Collins, like all women of the Ton during Regency period, were raised to be vain, shallow and think little past the fashions of the day. They were taught to be gorgeous, in style and with only a generally nattering of polite conversation, never showing any amount of intelligence lest they be called a bluestocking. This was a doubled-edged sword for Charlotte was both the epitome of the Regency debutant, but she also chafes under the restrictions. Cousin of the vivacious Gillian Leigh (Gillian?s story is told in Noble Intentions where she married Noble Britton), Charlotte shocked the proper and stuffy Ton and outraged her family, by eloping with a second son of Italian noble, just after Gillian married Noble. But now she is back. A window, penniless - thanks to the hatred of her mother-in-law - Charlotte is more than ready to embrace the shallowness and adoration of the Ton again. Only, she is shocked to find the door of the Ton slammed in her face. Her father was furious with his daughter for the elopement scandal, and though now dead, her brother Matthew is determined to pick up where daddy-dearest left off and see she is not received by any of the families of polite British Society. Charlotte rushes to Gillian for aid and support, but Gillian, now a mother, is off to the West Indies with Noble to inspect their plantation. She gives her sage advice: marry well and marry soon.Once Charlotte embraces the notion, one man comes to mind: Alistair Macgregor, known as Dare. He ?looks well on her? - i.e. they make a beautiful couple - he is an Earl, and he is still unmarried. There were sparks five years ago, and Dare likely would have offered for Charlotte, but when he inherited the Earldom, he inherited a mountain of debts that would take three life times to pay off. In London, to see his sister Patricia married, and to find financing for his marine steam engine, he was thrilled to see Charlotte again, disappointed to know he feels the same, but still cannot offer for her because he has nothing to offer any woman. Especially, he has nothing to offer Charlotte, who will need to be supported in lavish style. To his surprise, she proposes married to him! He declines, which does not deter Charlotte. She sets up a situation to trap him into marriage?and what a situation! The plan works, but suddenly things are not going as Charlotte planned.A faulty codpiece, a circus for a wedding - literally! - and a husband who refuses to bed his wife because he is determined, she may have caught him and used his honorable ways to get him to marry her, but she cannot force him to be a husband, a lady just has to take matters into her own hands?such as shooting her husband?to cheer him up, mind you!!!In Macalister?s third novel - (Improper English and Noble Intentions her others - with Men In Kilts, A Girl?s Guide to Vampires and Heat Wave due out later this year) she shows she is a force her to stay.Dare is