The Lazy Bachelor
About this ebook
Mr. Peregrine Tyndall has often been called the laziest man in London. Even still, stirred to the enormous task of matchmaking when a hunting accident suffered by his cousin makes him realize he stands in real danger of inheriting an earldom--with all its tedious responsibilities. In his opinion, the perfect girl to marry his cousin and give the earldom another heir than himself would be their childhood friend, Portia Freestone.
Mr. Tyndall doesn't know what formidable obstacles lay before him in this endeavour. However, when he joins a house party at the earl's country home with this match on his mind, everything seems to go wrong. In the first place, his normally obliging friend Portia has a secret. She has no wish to marry the earl--she likes him very well but the man she secretly wishes to marry is Mr. Tyndall himself. An even bigger problem is Miss Frances Armitage. She and her little sister Eleanor had been left in his guardianship, a duty he has benignly and completely neglected up to now. A furious Miss Armitage is about to descend on Lakeford Hall to demand that Mr. Tyndall take up his duties to her and her sister in a responsible manner--even if she has to force him to do it!
About the author
Fantasy writer Kathy Ann Trueman also writes romance under the name of Catherine Dove. She lives in rural Texas with a lifelong friend and a menagerie that includes horses, dogs, cats, and birds. She's addicted to chocolate, dragons, books, movies, and football. She's a 50+ single who graduated from a small college and still prefers the quiet of country life.
An avid reader, she was an Army brat who spent most of her young life moving, so books became her most reliable friends. Her favorites are fantasy, science fiction, romance, and mystery, but she'll read almost anything, even cereal boxes if nothing else is handy.
Kathy's short story, The Sow's Ear, was published in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress anthology series.
Keep track of all her work on her author two pages:
Kathy Ann Trueman:
http://www.writers-exchange.
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