Release Date: September 13, 2023

About the Author: Christina Hwang Dudley is the author of clean historical and contemporary romance. Her historical romances include the Hapgoods of Bramleigh and Ellsworth Assortment series of Regency romances, including THE NATURALIST and TEMPTED BY FOLLY.

In contemporary romance, her forthcoming PRIDE AND PRESTON LIN (Third State Books, 2024) riffs on Austen, but this time the story is set in the San Francisco Bay Area, with Asian American protagonists who hail from different ends of the economic spectrum.

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MY REVIEW

Tyrone Ellsworth is too lazy to bestir himself in courtship–or at least, that’s what his sister’s bosom friend Agatha Weeks thinks about him. Little does she know that Tyrone has been VERY BUSY ghostwriting letters for socially awkward bachelors to present to their ladyloves. When one of Tyrone’s customers decides to try his chances at attaching Miss Weeks, Tyrone discovers that his lucrative letter-writing hobby may have destroyed his own chances forever with the one girl he truly cares for….

Another charming Regency from Christina Dudley, this book masterfully shows the development of Tyrone and Aggie’s interest in each other as well as the importance of admitting wrong and offering forgiveness so that love can blossom. Tyrone is a delightful hero with loyalty to family and friends, Aggie is an irrepressible heroine trying to live down her past mistakes, and the romance is as swoon-worthy as one would expect from the inimitable Christina Dudley.

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Knocking away one of the arms which encircled her, Aggie strode several steps along the terrace, pressing gloved hands to her bosom to steady herself. Her heard was going like a mill-race.

When she could manage it, she turned back, her face calm. And when she heard her own voice, she could have punched the sky in triumph. For she sounded like her usual self, even mildly amused.

“Dear me,” said Aggie. “Were you delivering a message on behalf of someone, or was that one from you?”

-A Scholarly Pursuit, by Christina Dudley

 

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