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The Wedding Wager
(2022)(A book in the Wedding Wager series)
An omnibus of novels by Sydney Jane Baily, Chasity Bowlin, Collette Cameron, Elizabeth Ellen Carter, Jane Charles, Christine Donovan, Elizabeth Keys, Cerise De Land, Nadine Millard, Anna St. Claire, Wendy Vella and Tabetha Waite
The Boastpride goeth before the fall
After facilitating the match of the season, Lady Pandora "Pansy" Osbourne, has boasted that she is the best matchmaker The Ton has ever seen. Always willing to bring her cousin down a peg or two, her cousin, Lady Octavia Sewell insists that was no feat of matchmaking at all, as the couple involved were clearly destined for one another despite Pansys meddling. A bitter argument ensues and a dreadful challenge is issued. Pansy must do more than say it she must prove it.
The terms of the wager are set!
Pansy must produce no less than one match per month between people who have been notoriously unmarriageablespinsters, bluestockings, rakes and fortune hunters, oh my! But theres more riding on this than simply her pride! If Pansy loses, she will have to give up her most prized possessiona tiara that belonged to their grandmother will be forfeited into Octavias grasping hands.
The Ends Justify the Means or do they?
Desperate to make these matches, prove her claims of matchmaking prowess to be true and make Octavia eat crow in a very public fashion, Pansy resorts to the greatest weapon in any matchmakers arsenalthe house party. Not just one, but a series of them. For two weeks out of every month, she will open her home to an assortment of victims er, guests. At the end of each party, one couple will emerge either betrothed or wed, by fair means or foul.
Genre: Historical Romance
After facilitating the match of the season, Lady Pandora "Pansy" Osbourne, has boasted that she is the best matchmaker The Ton has ever seen. Always willing to bring her cousin down a peg or two, her cousin, Lady Octavia Sewell insists that was no feat of matchmaking at all, as the couple involved were clearly destined for one another despite Pansys meddling. A bitter argument ensues and a dreadful challenge is issued. Pansy must do more than say it she must prove it.
The terms of the wager are set!
Pansy must produce no less than one match per month between people who have been notoriously unmarriageablespinsters, bluestockings, rakes and fortune hunters, oh my! But theres more riding on this than simply her pride! If Pansy loses, she will have to give up her most prized possessiona tiara that belonged to their grandmother will be forfeited into Octavias grasping hands.
The Ends Justify the Means or do they?
Desperate to make these matches, prove her claims of matchmaking prowess to be true and make Octavia eat crow in a very public fashion, Pansy resorts to the greatest weapon in any matchmakers arsenalthe house party. Not just one, but a series of them. For two weeks out of every month, she will open her home to an assortment of victims er, guests. At the end of each party, one couple will emerge either betrothed or wed, by fair means or foul.
Genre: Historical Romance
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