First Impressions by Elizabeth Johns

First Impressions on September 22, 2015
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency
Pages: 97
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*Previously published in the Sweet Summer Kisses anthology.

The widower Earl of Rutherford, still in need of an heir, reluctantly sets off for London in search of a wife. He infinitely prefers the role of recluse to that of dashing beau.
The Season’s Incomparable, Helena Foster, prefers books to balls. She agrees to hide her bookish tendencies in exchange for her mother agreeing to limit her to one Season.
Their initial prejudices prevent their feeling they would suit, but an unlikely source may give them another chance…

First Impressions by Elizabeth Johns is a lovely Regency romance about a young widower searching for a new wife. When Geoffrey Bryant meets a mysterious woman behind a screen at a ball, he is immediately attracted to her. But she slips away in the night, and he doesn’t even know her name. Helena Foster is a diamond of the first water and sick and tired of balls. She feels drawn to Geoffrey but isn’t sure she wants to be a stepmother to his small daughter. I loved the character of Helena, who is funny and intelligent.  A bright and witty story, First Impressions is a sweet, clean romance. I can’t wait to read more books by Johns.