Product Description

Anna

At the very least, anyone else in Anna Welsley's position would be satisfied. Anna is to inherit a fortune, and after a glittering London debut last Season, she is now engaged to a duke's son. Anna herself does not understand the vague feeling of dissatisfaction. While her mother industriously plans Anna's wedding, Anna herself reads poetry and wonders if what she's in is love or just an arrangement.

As the estranged Scottish son of an English duke who has just died, Ewan MacLaughlin is the reluctant heir to his father's title. Arriving in London, he must face his father's widow, half sister, and half brother, Richard, who was fully expecting to become the duke himself. While acquainting himself with his newfound relations, Ewan finds himself more and more often in the company of Richard's fiancee, the beautiful Anna.

When it becomes clear that Richard is conspiring against Ewan, Anna is compelled to warn Ewan. But what begins in innocence soon becomes betrayal as Anna finds the answer to the question in her heart -- in Ewan.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #496112 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-01
• Released on: 2002-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up-Ewan MacLaughlin has spent his entire life in Scotland, believing that his father's leaving broke his mother's heart and caused her death. When a messenger arrives telling the young man that his father is dead and that he is now a duke, he travels to England to claim his title and meet the stepfamily he never knew existed. While his stepmother and stepsister welcome him with open arms, his stepbrother is not pleased to be giving up a title and the inheritance that he needs to pay off his ever-increasing gambling debts. Richard plots with his fiancee's mother to expose Ewan as a fraud and thus regain the title and money. Meanwhile, Ewan and Anna are quickly falling in love, forcing the young woman to choose between the stepbrothers. While this is a typical romance novel, with true love winning out in the end, it is the underlying suspense of Richard's scheming that keeps readers interested.
Kim Carlson, Monticello High School, IA
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Kathryn Smith began writing at age eight. For the next nine years she continued in her attempts to entertain students and teachers alike with her stories. But not until she was in her mid-twenties did she gather up the courage to follow her dream. She sent one of her books to a publisher. Four months later she was offered a contract.

Kathryn, her husband, Steve, and their cat, Mufasa, now live in Ottawa, Ontario, where Kathryn spends her days in front of her computer making up characters and plots. She loves writing romance and happy endings, but she has a couple of ideas she'd like to pursue someday as well. One is for a gothic-horror series about a vampire hunter.

Kathryn's adult titles include Elusive Passion, A Seductive Offer, and Scandalous Proposal.

Customer Reviews

a sweet regency romance for teens and adults...
the premise has been summed up by the other reviewers well. I just want to add that this 30 something lady really enjoyed the charming tale of Anna and Ewan. The story is a well written and CLEAN introduction to regency romances for young girls, and entertaining enough for adults as well. This story is recommended for those romance readers who want a love story without explicit scenes.

Please don't let the few bad reviews throw you. I'd recommend this book to any romance fan.
4 stars.

A must - read
I truly loved this book. There's never been a book that I could enjoy as much as this one. Honestly, this book made me smile at times - I'm serious. It made me happy. It kept me in suspense till the bitter end. The author knows how to scare a reader into believing the worst could occur, but I loved how it turned out. The plot was very believable. It was shocking how much a girl couldn't do otherwise it'd be considered scandalous. I really loved the main characters, Ewan and Anna. Their relationship was so sweet and amazing. I loved this book. This was the first book that made me really want to read till the end. Even other good books have bored me at some parts, but this read was worth missing TV for!

Anna and the Duke
The year is 1818. Ewan MacLaughlin finds out that his father, the Duke of Brahm, has died and made Ewan his heir. The news comes as a big suprise to Ewan since his father had deserted Ewan and his mother so long ago. Though Ewan already has his title of being the Earl of Keir, he journeys to England to settle his acquired estates. In England he faces both hate and love. His half brother, Richard, is bitterly upset for he had expected to become the next duke. But in the company of Richard's fiance, Anna Welsley, Ewan finds himself falling in love. Anna herself is drawn towards the handsome half English/Scottish Ewan for she is facing a form of dissatisfaction in the arrangement marriage with Richard. But the plot thickens when it becomes clear that Richard is conspiring against Ewan. Will Anna and Ewan stop him before it's too late?

The third book of the series, "Anna and the Duke" is an Avon True Romance for teenage girls. And even though this book is first and foremost a romance novel, there is plenty of intrigue, humor, and excitement to entertain a variety of teens.

The only Avon True Romance for teens that I read is so far "Victoria and the Rogue". In that book the story had been told in the view of the main character Victoria, who was a young, naive, and a bit haughty young woman. In "Anna and the Duke", I was given a totally different type of young lady. Anna Welsley was in a way more ladylike and had a shy temperament. But in no way she can be thought of as a boring, 'perfect' girl which plagues many romance novels of late. Anna has her faults but is strong and brave enough to fight for her loved one. Her loved one is Ewan MacLaughlin who is perfectly charming! I loved his background of being Scottish which is pretty cool.

If all the other Avon True Romance novels for teens are anything like "Anna and the Duke", I'm definitely picking up another in the series!