title: An Unlikely Countess (Novel of the Malloren World, A)
author:  Jo Beverley 
description: Beverley's 11th Malloren World romance, which starts a new trilogy, is a delightful, deftly plotted exploration of social class, gender roles, and romance. Prudence Youlgrave's expectations are reasonable for an impoverished woman in 1765 Yorkshire: she hopes to improve her station by marrying well. When roguish Catesby Burgoyne rescues her from robbers and persuades her to marry him, both are shocked by their impulsiveness and then stunned when Cate's older brother's death makes him the implausible earl of Malzard and Prudence an improbable countess. Prudence and Cate's path to love is rife with obstacles and charming secondary characters such as the formidable Lady Arradale. Though the final confrontation with Prudence's former fianc is disappointingly anticlimactic, the romance is otherwise charming and refreshingly restrained. (Mar.) <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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  A MOST  
  UNSUITABLE MAN
  
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  Jo Beverley’s magnificent Georgian novels have made her one of today’s most
  beloved storytellers. Now the New York Times best-selling author presents a
  new novel set in the scintillating, dangerous Malloren world....  
    
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  Damaris Myddleton never expected to inherit a vast fortune, but she’s ready to
  use it to buy the most eligible title in England. When disappointed by a
  marquess, she simply sets her sights higher—on a duke. But then there’s plain
  Mr. Fitzroger, the dashing but penniless adventurer who first saves her from
  social disaster and then saves her life.
  
  Entangled in mystery, danger, and forbidden intimacy, Damaris fights not to
  surrender her freedom and her heart to a most unsuitable man....  
    
  The Malloren novels are
  
  “GLORIOUSLY ROMANTIC. ”—Mary Balogh
  
  “EXQUISITELY SENSUAL. ”—Library Journal
  
  “STORYTELLING AT ITS BEST!”—RENDEVOUS
  
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