Book 1 in A lord for all Seasons: read in 2025
Elodie Templeworth is the oldest of 4 girls a lot is on her shoulders as her family expects her to mind her manners by being the perfect lady and attracting an eligible suitor, her mother would be delighted if it was someone who had a title... this is mentioned multiple times in the book not sure why "everything" is up to her but ok.
Elodie also has the responsibility of keeping her younger three sisters in line while her mother and father go about their business like it's not their job to watch after their girls.
In comes Christian Harrison, Viscount of Brentford he is recently back to the country after time abroad and is visiting his relatives in the country there is nothing to do there and while he plans to go back to London soon he visits the local country dance where he runs into Elodie while everyone else might see a prim and proper miss he has an encounter where she shows she has some sass and fire inside it doesn't hurt that she's also very beautiful but why is she in charge of keeping her younger sisters out of trouble one is clearly a shameless flirt and the other girl is drinking far too much and walking off with some local guy where is their mother?
Due to this situation with the sister Christian and Elodie find themselves in a "compromising" situation but nothing happened and Christian isn't going to be forced into marrying this woman he just met over a non-issue. Elodie's mother having other ideas tells the Viscount that he should be coming over to make marriage arrangements to not ruin their family name.
Christian speaks with his cousin about the situation (who has had a thing for Elodie for ages he is a local farmer) the cousin says that he should do the right thing by offering for her but he had already went over to the house that morning and told Elodie's parents nothing happened and she isn't ruined because no one will be talking about it it was just a few people who even knew and they were all planning to be discreet... except someone wasn't it is now all over this small town that the perfect daughter is possibly "ruined."
Elodie is beside herself her parents are discussing the options for her while she's there but not involving her in any of the plans and she is tired of not having a say in what should happen, she decides to escape to their London home to allow for this "scandal" to blow over... that and she has no interest in marrying Christian's cousin who has come to call shortly after Christian left that morning. So she does something very un-Elodie like she packs her bags and with her sisters help hides in Christian's carriage if he is trying to ditch her after causing part of this problem he owes her right? he can get her to London.
On this trip of course the Viscount finds her but they are already further away and in a storm so agreeing to help her get out of town they grow closer together maybe even fall for each other. Very minimal spice, some drama, and some general misunderstandings that could be cleared up quickly with a conversation but often is pushed off for later. Over the course of the book you realize that while Elodie watches over her sisters they look out for her just as much.
Was a cute quick read with some humor and I plan to read the rest of the series, I really loved her sisters and I'm looking forward to their stories.
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