{"id":3998,"date":"2015-05-01T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2015-04-26T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:30:30","slug":"friday-reads-defying-the-earl-by-anabelle-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3998","title":{"rendered":"Friday Reads: Defying the Earl by Anabelle Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am thrilled that my friend Anabelle Bryant has a new book coming out next week&#8230;the first in her Regency Charms series. Needless to say, I&#8217;ve already pre-ordered mine \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51gmZ9YApGL._AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-51,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Defying-Earl-Regency-Charms-Book-ebook\/dp\/B00V3ITDOM\/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1430083602&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=anabelle+bryant\">Defying the Earl<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Game&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\n<b>\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMatchmaker Wilhelmina Montgomery helps cupid&#8217;s arrow find its mark in the drawing rooms of the Ton, effortlessly pairing even the most unlikely couples for a discreet fee. Perhaps not an appropriate pursuit for a lady&#8230;but with an ailing sister to care for, it&#8217;s Whimsy&#8217;s only hope at securing their future.<\/p>\n<p><b>Set&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\n<b>\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nMeanwhile, penniless aristocrat Valerian St. David, Earl of Dashwood is society&#8217;s favourite match<i>breaker<\/i>; assisting those who want to escape engagement without being sued for breach of promise. Cynical, yes&#8230;but with no intention of falling in love himself, Valerian considers himself ideally suited to the role.<\/p>\n<p><b>And match! <\/b><br \/>\n<b>\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\nWhen Whimsy discovers that Valerian has set out to <i>break <\/i>the very engagement she has been painstakingly arranging, she refuses to allow this mysterious saboteur have his way. Yet she didn&#8217;t expect to find the handsome Earl so distractingly alluring. And suddenly, it seems that the Ton&#8217;s last two loneliest hearts are in danger of finding their match&#8230;in the most inopportune of places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am thrilled that my friend Anabelle Bryant has a new book coming out next week&#8230;the first in her Regency Charms series. Needless to say, I&#8217;ve already pre-ordered mine \ud83d\ude42 &nbsp; Defying the Earl Game&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0 Matchmaker Wilhelmina Montgomery helps cupid&#8217;s arrow find its mark in the drawing rooms of the Ton, effortlessly pairing even &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3998\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Reads: Defying the Earl by Anabelle Bryant<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}