The Wedding Challenge (Matchmakers) | Candace Camp | My favorite of the Matchmaker series thus far

The Wedding Challenge (Matchmakers) | Candace Camp | Awesome!

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	The Wedding Challenge (Matchmakers) Candace Camp HQN Books, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lady Calandra should have suitors beating down her door. But her overprotective brother, the Duke of Rochford, has managed to scare off every suitable gentleman. Every man except the mysterious Earl of Bromwell, that is. Callie finds herself drawn to the enigmatic earl, despite her brother's almost violent protestations.

In defiance of her brother's wishes, Callie devises a plan to see Bromwell again, enlisting the help of matchmaker Francesca Haughston. But when shadowy secrets about the duke and the earl come to light, it may be too late for Callie to see that she's walked straight into a trap.?

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My favorite of the Matchmaker series thus far

Author Candace Camp seems to be building to a crescendo in her intriguing Matchmaker series with the third of four books depicting love and witty repartee among the upper classes in Regency England. While I was increasingly engrossed by the first two books in the series, The Marriage Wager (Matchmakers) and The Bridal Quest, The Wedding Challenge had me from "Hello." Camp's true strength as a romance novelist is her ability to seamlessly weave subplots and minor characters into the main story. Here she has done that masterfully, and pushed what could have been a merely journeyman effort about the attraction of the sister of a duke and a secretive earl to highly entertaining first-rate romance.

Lady Calandra, the much younger sister of the tall, dark and handsome Duke of Rochford, has decided to approach Lady Francesca, matchmaker to the rich and desperate, about finding herself a husband. At twenty-three and having enjoyed five years out in society, Calandra (called Callie by friends and family) is tired of hearing her continued single status harped upon by her grandmother and the other older ladies of the ton. However, Callie is determined to choose her own husband rather than pick from the boring, but upstanding, men who are being pushed upon her by the older set.

In approaching Lady Francesca, Callie has a secret motive, however. She has met someone who makes her heart go pitty-pat, a new face on the social scene -- Richard, Earl of Bromwell. But for some reason her formidable brother has forbidden her to see the dashing Lord Bromwell. So Callie figures that she will be freer to explore romantic possibilities with sexy Brom if she is being chaperoned by Francesca, and is far away from her brooding brother's influence.

What follows is a scintillating mixture of romance and revenge, as the character of Brom's sister, Lady Daphne, enters the picture and we find out that both Daphne and Brom have reason to despise the Duke of Rochford. They despise him enough to entertain thoughts about exacting retribution on him and on his unsuspecting sister. The question is: Just how far are they willing to go?

The story unfolds just fast enough to keep the reader glued to the page. The sexual tensions grow, not only between Brom and Callie, but between Francesca and the enigmatic Duke. Readers of the first two books in the series will be interested to discover some fascinating history about Francesca and the Duke. But though this book sets the reader up perfectly for the final book in this wonderful series, it never strays from the central romantic story being told and does stand on its own.

I love this series and recommend it highly to romance fans who love tightly-written prose and a strong story line which leads to a satisfying conclusion.

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Awesome!

As usual, Candace Camp has given us another great Matchmaker adventure. I couldn't put it down. I can't wait for the next book.

Another Excellent book from Candace Camp

I believe that this is the third book in the Matchmakers series by Candace Camp. The Matchmakers series revolves around Lady Francesca, a widow whose husband died leaving her almost nothing. To survive she plays matchmaker and in return people gift her with token of their esteem (jewelery) and she pawns them to pay the bills. And its obvious that she and the Duke of Rochford are meant to be together but... they never have.

Ms. Camp has a talent for writing beautiful historical romances, and this book was a delight. It deals with the Duke of Rochford sister and the earl of Bromwell who hates the Duke, after all its rumored that the Earl's sister was the Duke's mistress at one point. But things are not always as they seem.

A highly enjoyable read, but even more important is that the next book is FINALLY about Lady Francesca and the Duke of Rochford!

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A good book by a great author!

This book is the romance of Lady Calandra and Earl of Bromwell. I like both characters and the novel but problem was I want Duke of Rochford and Lady Francesca Houghston story. As a Matchmaker fan we got some great hints into what happened with Rochfor and Francesca in the past. Can't wait for The Courtship Dance due out Feb.2009.

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