{"id":4533,"date":"2026-04-24T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:59:21","slug":"book-recommendation-minervas-marquess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/24\/book-recommendation-minervas-marquess\/","title":{"rendered":"Book recommendation: Minerva’s Marquess"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"Camy here! I recently read this oldie-but-goodie from Sheila Walsh and really enjoyed it. It\u2019s not Christian, but it\u2019s clean and a very sweet romance. I tend to really like marriage of convenience romances, so I admit I was a bit biased and ready to like the story because of that plot type. I liked how the heroine was sensible and forthright and willing to take charge of her own life. The hero is also a strong character but not too brooding. And there\u2019s a light mystery thread to keep the story moving at a nice pace.<\/p>

\"Fire<\/a><\/div>\n

Here\u2019s the back cover blurb:<\/p>\n

The former Miss Minerva Braithwaite thought it a promising proposal when the lord whom she had shamelessly snared into wedlock suggested they go to Paris for their honeymoon. But all too swiftly that promise turned into peril for her hopes of happiness.<\/p>\n

First the fearfully handsome, infuriatingly arrogant Lord Dominic Claireux refused to touch her on their wedding journey. Next she discovered that waiting in Paris was the ravishing Lavinia Winterton, who had broken Dominic’s heart once, but who now was eager to make amorous amends.<\/p>\n

Somehow the beautiful Minerva had to find a way to melt her husband’s icy reserve and best a hot-blooded rival for his love. And clearly it was going to be a game of enticement and intrigue that only someone as daring as Minerva would gamble on winning…<\/p>\n

Anything you\u2019ve read recently that you enjoyed?<\/p>\n

Originally posted 2015-04-13 05:00:23. <\/small><\/p>

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Camy here! I recently read this oldie-but-goodie from Sheila Walsh and really enjoyed it. It\u2019s not Christian, but it\u2019s clean and a very sweet romance. I tend to really like marriage of convenience romances, so I admit I was a bit biased and ready to like the story because of that plot type. I liked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}