Suitors for the Proper Miss ~ Review

Suitors for the Proper Miss

Lords for the Sisters of Sussex #4

By Jen Geigle Johnson

Lucy Standish has known most of her life that she was destined to marry very well - she of all the sisters has been declared the most suitable to marry a duke. She knows this is so and it will not be a love match, though she hopes there may be a little affection. But she must do this to provide for her children and her sisters - she never wants to be poor and hungry again. And she will do what she can to secure not only her future but the future of all she holds dear.  There is just one little problem getting her heart to agree with her thinking.

Mr. Sullivan has a way with horses and if she were honest she's found him to be the closest thing to a friend she has outside of her sisters. But nothing more could ever come of it - not even a true friendship because nobility and servants are to observe the boundaries that society has set in place. But somehow Mr. Sullivan has a way of seeing past the carefully constructed persona she has crafted for herself. After all, if she wishes to be a duchess she must always behave like a duchess. But when she is with Conor Sullivan she feels a freedom she never expected. 

A chance at a London season is the best thing that could have been offered to Lucy. First, it will take away from Conor and the confusion of feelings that he stirs within her. Second, it will afford her the chance to secure the future she so desperately wants. 

When a change comes into the Sullivan family's situation will it sway Lucy from one path to another? Or will the fears of the past keep her from following her heart? 

But what happens when your dreams change and what you've had suddenly becomes dear? Is the promise of security worth turning down the chance for love? Lucy's future depends on choices before her.

Suitors for the Proper Miss is the fourth book in the Lords for the Sisters of Sussex series and it is as delightful as the previous books. You can read this book as a standalone title but it reads better if you first read the other books so that you are aware of the backstories that are referenced in this book. But either way that you read this book you won't be disappointed. A lovely Regency era read perfect for spending the weekend with! 

There is an added bonus, a short excerpt from book 5 that will tease you with what is to come.

I was provided a complimentary copy of the book with no expectations but that I provide my honest opinion. All thoughts expressed are my own.

About the Book:

She wants to marry a Lord, as Lordly and titled as possible. 

He wants nothing more to do with her than saddle her horses.

Miss Lucy Standish has wanted to marry a future duke for as long as she could remember. Days in the cold, with little coal for their small cottage and little to eat, she would dream of the day she saved all her sisters with marriage to a man of such elevated title that they would never be poor again, that her children and their children forever would be cared for.

Mr. Conor Sullivan has never overstepped the lines of propriety. He does everything he can to treat Miss Lucy with respect. But his heart is overcome with love for the middle Standish sister, and he assumes he will spend his dying breath still wishing she was his.

But fortune changes for the Sullivan family. With new attention from the crown and past family secrets revealed, a path opens that just might mean happiness for Lucy and Conor. But will they be bold enough to seize the opportunity when it comes?

Read book Four in the Lords for the Sisters of Sussex Series for a hefty dose of delicious family relationships, Jane Austin type fun, and a delicious forbidden romance.