The Madcap - Softcover

Poppen, Nikki

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ISBN 10: 147781180X ISBN 13: 9781477811801

Publisher: Montlake Romance, 2012

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As unconventional as she is rich, American heiress Marianne Addison isn't exactly the kind of girl an Englishman takes home to his mother. No wonder Alasdair Braden is smitten. By age nineteen, Marianne has conquered the nouveau riche circles of San Francisco, surveyed the males on offer, and decided to look elsewhere. Armed with her daddy's millions, a dazzling smile, and western fortitude, she sets out to take England by storm. Alasdair Braden has seen Marianne Addison's brand of mischief before. She waltzes too fast, rides too recklessly, and eats too much at dinner (sometimes with the wrong fork). Worst of all, she speaks her mind freely and without restraint, perhaps the quality that persuades Alasdair to take a rowdy wager after Marianne's latest social oversight. Could he turn her into a genteel lady ready to be accepted by English Society? Alasdair's wild bet to tame the Season's madcap takes on far more personal importance than he'd intended. What started out as a lark to divert attention from his financial situation now turns dire. He needs to marry well and quickly to sustain his family's influence and finances. His mother has had the neighboring earl's perfect English daughter picked out for him since he was twelve. She has the breeding and fortune necessary to sustain the family s needs...unless Alasdair can come up with an alternative. Marianne is his last best hope of escaping this marriage of convenience. But it just may be that Marianne is also his only hope for love.

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About the Author

Nikki Poppen is a communication studies instructor at a northwest college. In her spare time she enjoys researching history, traveling, studying languages, and playing with her three kids. She also writes under the name Bronwyn Scott. The Madcap is Nikki's fifth historical romance. Her other available novels are: Newport Summer, The Romany Heiress, The Heroic Baron, and The Dowager's Wager.

From Publishers Weekly

The second installment in Poppen's frothy and very conventional historical romance series (after Newport Summer) begins in 1890 with San Francisco sourdough heiress Marianne Addison visiting New York to try to enter Manhattan society. But her appearance at a scandalous Champagne Sunday torpedoes her chances of being accepted by the Four Hundred Club, so off she goes to England to catch a titled man who will impress New York's high society. Alasdair Braden, the fourth Viscount Pennington, makes for a convenient match, and the two fall madly in love, though the happy couple nearly falters from the schemes of the jealous Lord Brantley, a consummate gambler and troublemaker who covets Marianne's money. Poppen's peek into vintage fortune hunting is intermittently diverting, but what it really needs is more of the mischief the title suggests. (Dec.)
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