Sally MacKenzie. (2016). How to Manage a Marquess. Zebra Books.

Sally MacKenzie. 2016. How to Manage a Marquess. Zebra Books.

Sally MacKenzie, How to Manage a Marquess. Zebra Books, 2016.

Sally MacKenzie. How to Manage a Marquess. Zebra Books, 2016.

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     A native of Washington, DC, Sally MacKenzie still lives in suburban Maryland with her transplanted upstate New Yorker husband. She's written federal regulations, school newsletters, auction programs, class plays, and swim league guidance, but it wasn't until the first of her four sons headed off to college that she tried her hand at romance. She can be reached by e-mail at sally@sallymackenzie.net or by snail mail at P.O. Box 10466, Rockville, MD, 20849. Please visit her home in cyberspace at www.sallymackenzie.net.
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A meddling matchmaker finds an irresistible match of her own in the USA Today bestselling author's "funny and clever" Regency romance (SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com).
Two possible futures loom before Miss Anne Davenport. She will either share an unhappy home with her father and soon-to-be stepmother—or enjoy a life of independence at the Spinster House. She only needs the current resident marry and vacate the premises. A well-placed whisper about her and the Duke of Hart might speed the course to matrimony. But the duke's stubborn cousin poses an obstacle. A ridiculously handsome, very persuasive obstacle . . .
Nate, Marquess of Haywood, has spent his life looking out for the duke, hoping to stave off a family curse. The only way to keep his cousin alive is to keep him single. That means convincing the intriguing Miss Davenport that her lovely lips could be put to far better use than gossiping. Kissing, for instance. In fact, Nate is beginning to hope that Miss Davenport's destiny lies not in the Spinster House at all, but with him . . .

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     March 15, 2016
     A Regency-era marquess has allowed his life to be controlled by a family curse, but a blonde spinster promises to give him something else to live for. The second full-length installment of MacKenzie's Spinster House series (What to Do with a Duke, 2015) stars 30-year-old Nathaniel, the Marquess of Haywood, who made a deathbed promise to his mother to protect his cousin Marcus, the Duke of Hart, from a 200-year-old curse. The curse says that unless the duke marries for love, he'll die before his wife gives birth to an heir. But Marcus is sick of Nate following him around, trying to prevent him from compromising gently born ladies and being forced into marriage and ultimately his own death. Nate himself is somewhat distracted from playing nursemaid to his cousin by the lovely Miss Anne Davenport, a childish blonde in her 20s who is anxious to leave her girlhood home before her father's impending marriage to a woman younger than Anne herself. She's vying with other village spinsters for a chance to move into a cottage called the Spinster House, with the Duke of Hart as landlord. Because both Nate and Anne lack any self-control whatsoever, they find themselves canoodling in public repeatedly, until finally Nate realizes he is trying to get himself into a position where he'll be forced to marry Anne. MacKenzie's prose is lively and readable, but her characters are a bit insipid and don't grow much during the course of the story. Worse, Nate talks to his penis throughout the novel, frequently telling it, "Shut up, Cock!" in response to his own lascivious thoughts. Tiresome lead characters and a rather inane plot make this novel eminently skippable.

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     Starred review from May 1, 2016
     As odd as it may seem, Miss Anne Davenport wants to stay single so that she's eligible to move into Spinster House, away from her father and his too-young bride. There Anne will be able to manage her own life and write novels. Unfortunately, her two best friends, Catherine Cat Hutting and Jane Wilkinson, are also vying for the only vacancy. His mother's dying wish is for Nathaniel, Marquess of Haywood, to protect his cousin, Marcus, from an ancient and persistent curse: if Marcus marries before his thirtieth birthday, he will die. But Marcus has fallen for Cat, and it looks as though the two of them are already lovers. And Nate is finding the utterly annoying Anne Davenport very sexy. With great effort, he keeps reminding himself that his mission is to save his cousin, not capture the heart of the most stubborn, independent woman he's ever met. MacKenzie's (Loving Lord Ash, 2014) romances are always a delight to read, filled as they are with feisty females and the brawny, brainy, often befuddled men who love them. In her latest, MacKenzie's rainbow of humor ranges from witty dialogue to slapstick comedy. Even the animals are funny.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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Two possible futures loom before Miss Anne Davenport. She will either share an unhappy home with her father and soon-to-be stepmother—or enjoy a life of independence at the Spinster House. She only needs the current resident marry and vacate the premises. A well-placed whisper about her and the Duke of Hart might speed the course to matrimony. But the duke's stubborn cousin poses an obstacle. A ridiculously handsome, very persuasive obstacle . . .
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