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Overview

BRIGHTON BEAUTY is a Regency romance novel set in London and near the city of Chester in England. Chelsea Grant hadn’t planned to be a deceiver! She had been the prettiest—and most penniless—young lady at Miss Farringdon’s Academy in Brighton. Befriending spoiled heiress Alayna Marchmont and telling her about a family scandal was a schoolgirl’s naïve mistake. Now, Alayna has blackmailed Chelsea into agreeing to an utterly outrageous scheme…to spend a dull month in the country with Alayna’s elderly aunt, while pretending to be Alayna! Both girls are blond and of a similar size, besides Aunt Millicent is nearly blind.

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Overview

BRIGHTON BEAUTY is a Regency romance novel set in London and near the city of Chester in England. Chelsea Grant hadn’t planned to be a deceiver! She had been the prettiest—and most penniless—young lady at Miss Farringdon’s Academy in Brighton. Befriending spoiled heiress Alayna Marchmont and telling her about a family scandal was a schoolgirl’s naïve mistake. Now, Alayna has blackmailed Chelsea into agreeing to an utterly outrageous scheme…to spend a dull month in the country with Alayna’s elderly aunt, while pretending to be Alayna! Both girls are blond and of a similar size, besides Aunt Millicent is nearly blind.

The plan might have worked but for one unforeseen occurrence, the arrival of Aunt Millicent’s nephew, Lord Rathbone, who unexpectedly comes to England to claim his bride, sight unseen. Rathbone is not disappointed with his “fiancée.” As for Chelsea, she’s developing a powerful tender for the handsome, albeit misled, nobleman. This affair of the heart could lead to disaster, unless a resourceful Brighton Beauty can find a way to stop a foolish masquerade without losing a handsome lord’s love.

Editorial Reviews

Laurie Fellows
"The tension never lets up on Miss Grant! I simply had to keep reading to find out what would happen next. But, as in all great love stories, things eventually worked out for the hero and heroine. Getting there is the problem for these two very likeable characters. Well done!"
Angela Worthington
"Brighton Beauty is a finely crafted story complete with not one, but two, villains who threaten this young lady at every turn. The suspense builds until it looks as if all is lost for poor Miss Grant. Ive never been disappointed with a single one of Ms. Clay's Regency romance novels."
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Emma Matthews
"Even with the suspense mounting, Ms. Clay's characters always entertain. The wedding scene in this story had me laughing out loud. A fun read."

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940014511780
  • Publisher: MARILYN CLAY
  • Publication date: 4/12/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 152 KB

Meet the Author

MARILYN CLAY is a multi-published author and respected historian of the Regency period in English history. For sixteen years, she published and edited The Regency Plume Newsletter, an international newsletter featuring articles written by published author which are useful to writers, historians and others interested in all aspects of the 18th and early 19th centuries in English history. Marilyn Clay was invited by the editors of Garland Books to contribute historical essays to an Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, from the 1780s – 1830s, published in 1992. In the late 1990s Kensington Books published six of Marilyn Clay’s Regency romance novels, all of which have been translated to foreign languages.

MARILYN CLAY’s most recent book, SECRETS AND LIES: A Jamestown Novel (set in Colonial America) will be released in hardcover by Five Star Gale in May 2012 with an e-version for the Nook to follow in 2013. DECEPTIONS: A Jamestown Novel was a hardcover release in July 2010 from Five Star Gale, with a second, large-print edition released in December 2010. An e-version of DECEPTIONS is already available for the Nook. Before Marilyn began writing, she enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist in Dallas, Texas. She now lives in Oklahoma and shares her home with a beautiful tuxedo kitty-cat named Heidi, who generally snoozes while her Mom writes.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 19, 2012

    Another fun Regency from the talented pen of Marilyn Clay! The h

    Another fun Regency from the talented pen of Marilyn Clay! The hero kept Miss Grant on her toes. I liked this book very much!

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