You know the drill – first one to give us author, title, heroine’s name gets le Smart Bitche Title!
All my dresses might as well be purple, too
Impetuous and sophisticated-beyond-my-years gentry daughter with no dowry to speak of seeks a series of men to guide me from virginity to a great deal of experience. First, a benevolent, almost fatherly-aged gentleman to rescue my family from ruin, teach me the ins and outs of coitus in as many locations as possible, and introduce me to luuuuurve, baby, yeah. Then, a royal pain with a ginormous ass to bend me unwillingly into sexual servitude and political intrigue. Finally, a younger, more passionate, and ultimately appropriate man who allows me to keep my original title, my pride, and my happily ever after.
Is it: Blaze Wyndham, from the Bertrice Small book titled “Blaze Wyndham”?
I can’t believe I’m admitting publicly to having read a Bertrice Small book.
I was going to guess Skye O’Malley from Bertrice Small—book of the same name.
Or maybe Small’s book The Last Heiress, heroine is Elizabeth. (Damn, lots of Small’s books fit this! And I wants me a title!)
Yay JMC! Blaze Wyndham is the correct answer! Well done!
Waaaah!!! And congrats jmc. I hate you.
Thank you! *doing a happy dance*
I’m sorry, Amy E, about stealing the title from under your nose 😉 This is the first time I’ve ever known the answer! I’m usually busy scratching my head, thinking “What? There’s a heroine like that? In a real book?”
LOL! It’s okay, jmc. I was cheating by googling it anyway. Alas, I didn’t deserve le smarte biche title!
Would any one of us actually name our daughter, Blaze? For realz?
Congrats to jmc. Condolences to Amy E.
No, Stef, we would **not** name our daughter “Blaze.”
It is the name of a horse.
I distinctly remember a horse story from the depths of my horsie-loving girlhood, “Blaze Finds the Trail.”
In fact, there were a whole series of Blaze books.
So I can’t see the Betrice Small heroine’s name without picturing the heroine with a white snip running from her forehead down to the tip of her nose.
oooooo BILLY AND BLAZE!
Yeah, somehow my kids ended up with a tape of billy and blaze stories read by teen idol David Cassidy! The writing was stilted; the reading horrible. It’s a little gem of a tape.
(I think I’ll give that away in my current contest.)
I am happy to say I’ve never read any of Small’s books. I think I get much more pleasure reading what other people say about them than I ever could in actually reading them.