The Marriage Trap
Elizabeth Thornton, . . Bantam, $6.99 (357pp) ISBN 978-0-553-58753-1
As multilayered as a wedding cake and just as delectable, this first installment in Thornton's new Regency-era trilogy focusing on Lord Jack Rigg and his friends, Ash and Brand, finds Jack fleeing London (and a gaggle of marriage-minded mamas) for Paris. There he meets impoverished Ellie Hill, who serves as companion to a domineering woman, but at night exercises her card-sharking skills under the guise of the glamorous Madame Aurora. Ellie remembers Jack as the youth who boarded with her eccentric family—and who was the object of her first crush. He, however, doesn't recognize her until circumstances, involving a theft and murder, whisk them on the path to matrimony. Thornton (
Reviewed on: 05/30/2005
Genre: Fiction
Open Ebook - 268 pages - 978-0-553-90174-0