TITLE: A Wallflower Never Surrenders
AUTHOR: Courtney McCaskill
SERIES: The Weatherby Wallflowers Quartet
SERIES ORDER: 1 of 4
RELEASE DATE: 7/9/2024
GENRE: Regency Romance
RATING: ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
BLURB:
They call them the Weatherby Wallflowers…
After her mother’s death, Eleanor Weatherby has had a hard enough time shepherding her three younger sisters through the world and running her father’s household on a shoestring budget. But now her father, an eccentric naturalist who has always shown more interest in birds and beetles than his own flesh and blood, has sold their home so he could afford passage on an exploratory voyage around the world! Suddenly the four sisters dubbed the Weatherby Wallflowers don’t even have a roof over their heads.
Their only chance…
Eleanor somehow manages to secure an invitation to the Countess of Milthorpe’s house party, which buys them two weeks of shelter. Eleanor is firmly on the shelf, but her youngest sister, Philippa, manages to catch the eye of Felix St. James, younger brother of the Duke of Norwood. If Pippa can bring Felix up to scratch, it will draw them back from the brink of destitution.
The man standing in their way…
There’s only one problem—Jasper St. James, the Duke of Norwood. He immediately marked Pippa as an upstart miss who was only after his brother’s fortune. Jasper vows that he won’t let Felix out of his sight. But at every turn he is foiled by Eleanor Weatherby, who seems as determined to promote the match as Jasper is to prevent it.
As Jasper and Eleanor match wits, he discovers that she is impertinent, imperious… and impossible to resist. It turns out that sparring with a headstrong wallflower is more to this stern duke’s taste than the milquetoast maidens he was considering for his bride at the start of the house party. Maybe one of the Weatherby Wallflowers will be marrying into the St. James family after all… if Jasper hasn’t already ruined everything.
A Wallflower Never Surrenders is a steamy, comedic Regency Romance. It is Book 19 in the multi-author series Revenge of the Wallflowers and also Book 1 in The Weatherby Wallflowers Quartet. Look for Clarissa Weatherby’s story, Snowbound with the Scoundrel, in November 2024!
MY REVIEW:
DISCLAIMER: I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
I absolutely adored this story! This is my second book that I’ve read by Courtney McCaskill. After reading The Scot Who Made June Hot, I signed up to be notified of future releases by Courtney, and the chance to read them as ARCs. I received A Wallflower Never Surrenders about a week and a half ago, and as mentioned, I absolutely adored it!
It’s the first in a new series by Courtney, the second book will be released in November, and the remaining two in 2025. Courtney pulled me in to the story of the four Weatherby sisters, and I’m dying to read their stories!
I loved Eleanor! She is the oldest of the four Weatherby sisters and due to their father’s incompetence to provide for them, she has set aside her dreams of ever getting married in order to look out for her sisters. When their father’s latest adventures result in their homelessness, Eleanor manages to secure an invitation to a house party with the hopes of securing a marriage proposal for her youngest sister, Pippa. Pippa falls for a man named Felix. Felix’s brother, Jasper, the Duke of Norwood, believes Pippa is only after Felix for his money and tries to sabotage the match while Eleanor tries to encourage the match. The chemistry between Eleanor and Jasper is electric! I loved their banter and how they rile each other up! I loved when they finally gave in to their attraction, and I loved how Jasper advocated for the Weatherby sisters when he realized he was in the wrong!
I’m really intrigued with how Courtney set up the rest of the stories in the series and I can’t wait to see where she takes them!
Thank you Courtney for the advance copy!