![]() He rebuffs Alexandra's attempts to earn his favor until she wises up and tries to run off then he decides to keep her. Douglas is predictably annoyed when he returns and arrogantly makes this very clear to his unwanted wife. They return to carry on with the proxy wedding, making Melissande's younger sister Alexandra the bride. He sends his cousin Tony Parrish to act as his proxy during the ceremony, but the bride and substitute groom fall in love and elope. The tale begins when Douglas is dispatched to France on a secret mission for the British government just as he is to marry the beautiful Melissande Chambers. Worse, bestselling romancer Coulter's ( Earth Song ) lame story is no more amusing. In a display of what poses as wit in this Regency novel, the first of a trilogy, Douglas Sherbrooke, Earl of Northcliffe, tells his wife Alexandra that she is ``as amusing as a boil on a backside.'' Unfortunately, he's right. ![]()
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