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Emily agreed to wed Philip, the Viscount Ashton, primarily to escape her overbearing mother. Philip's death while on safari soon after their wedding left Emily feeling little grief, for she barely knew the dashing stranger.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Tasha Alexander
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 339
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper Paperbacks
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061353635
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“FEW PEOPLE WOULD LOOK KINDLY ON MY REASONS FOR marrying Philip; neither love nor money nor his title induced me to accept his proposal.”
Tasha Alexander attended the University of Notre Dame, where she signed on as an English major in order to have a legitimate excuse for spending all her time reading. Following graduation, she played nomad for several years, she lived in Amsterdam, London, Wyoming, Vermont, Connecticut and Tennessee before settling with her husband, the also writer <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2301303A" target="_blank">Andrew Grant</a>, in Chicago. When not reading, she can be found hard at work on her next novel.
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