To Catch a Lord

 To Catch a Lord

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       July 3, 2025

 

Author  Emma Orchard

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 ‎ 978-1836338529
Publisher:         Boldwood Books
Release Date:   June 2025  

   Website:   https://www.amazon.com/Catch-Lord-Emma-Orchard/dp/183633852

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Emma Orchard has delivered another scintillating Regency Romance, or should one say romp, Georgette Heyer style in her latest book To Catch A Lord in which Lady Amelia Wyverne sets out to catch a Lord, who just happens to be Marcas, Lord Thornfalcon!

Both Amelia and Marcus are attending the Season reluctantly. Amelia is supposed to be finding a husband but is less than impressed with the men who are out to not necessarily to marry her but her fortune.

Marcus has recently returned to London after considerable time in the Military in Spain and Portugal. He is also mourning the death of his older brother and learning how to be Lord Thornfalcon, a position he never thought he would hold. He is chaperoning his sister Helena in her first season.

Both have earned the scorn, in Amelia case and ridicule in Marcus’s case of the Ton and are finding the Season challenging, depressing and beyond comfortable. In desperation Amelia and her sister-in-law Sophie create a daring plan to stage a false engagement with Marcus, but how to achieve this is the issue.

Enlisting the help of Marcus’s sister Helena, Amelia puts the proposition to Marcus, who after a serious moment’s reflection agrees to go along with the ruse. That is when things really begin to get interesting, as the widow Lady Lavinia Thornfalcon is not prepared to accept that the engagement is real. She is a woman of outstanding beauty, used to getting her own way and will not have her plans thwarted by, in her mind, a no account woman!

As the days pass Amelia and Marcus realise they enjoy each other’s company and also that Lavinia is not about accept the engagement, setting about doing her upmost to uphold the story she has carefully let become common knowledge through the Ton; that of a long time love for Marcus and how they are now destined to be together at last.

To Catch A Lord is a comfortable and captivating read, full of twists and turns as well as the unexpected, which will hold interest until the final word, as nothing goes to plan and sinister forces are at work to bring it to bring the engagement to an end one way or the other.

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Fiction, General