The Unwanted Heiress: unfortunately, a boring story

The Unwanted Heiress by Amy Corwin is the first book in the Archer Family Regency romance series. It is the story of an American heiress that no one wants and a duke who is desired by every woman around him and yet he desires none of them. The story opens as Nathaniel Archer, the Duke of Peckham is playing cards with his uncle at a gentleman’s club when his uncle wins the guardianship of an American heiress. Charlotte Haywood has been bounced from household to household since her parents died when she was three years old. Now 21, she is three years from gaining her inheritance and her freedom. Since he is used to every woman clamoring for his attention, he is suspicious of Charlotte’s indifference. Surely, it’s a ploy to catch him off guard. Charlotte is truly unimpressed by his title and wants nothing to do with England. As soon as she can, she wants to travel and leave dreary England far behind her. The two are throw together after a young woman who was trying to capture Nathanial’s attention is murdered and Nathanial’s attitude toward women makes him an instant suspect. Can they prove his innocence? Is the killer after Charlotte too?

The Unwanted Heiress was previously published as I Bid One American and I am sad to say it was a very boring book. I’ve read romance novels before where the male protagonist is uninterested in marriage and the heroine has no desire to be swept off her feet by money and title. It’s a formula that has been used before. Unfortunately, this story is not live up to it’s description. Very early on, it was difficult to get must the author’s misspelling of a famous England town. The author spelled the name of town as Brighten when the town is Brighton. The story showed a lack of real research in what English society during the Regency era would have been like. The hunt for the real killer and prove Nathanial’s innocence was anticlimactic. As I read, I found myself not caring about Nathanial or Charlotte or if they catch the real killer. I did not like The Unwanted Heiress and I do not recommend it.

The Unwanted Heiress

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