Teaser Tuesday 39: The Heir

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read.
* Share a few “teaser” sentences from somewhere in the book.
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away. You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teaser!



Another Johanna Lindsey read in May. I have enjoyed catching up on some of her books this year. Only eight more to go... I know this is a bit longer this week, but this exchange was too good not to share.

"Well, one, because he's so amusing when he gets annoyed with me. And two, because I like him. And three, because someone has to teach him how to roll with the punches, as it were, and I've elected myself to educate him on the intricacies of English humor."

"Goodness, and here I thought you were just being facetious," she replied, tongue in cheek.

(pg 104)

About the book:
Genre: Historical Romance

Has anyone in London ever taken part in the coming-out season with less enthusiasm than Sabrina? She is young, lovely, and possesses a sparkling wit, yet she knows she is but a simple orphaned country girl—whose grandfather just happened to have been a nobleman—and therefore feels dreadfully out of place.

Even less keen to be in London is Duncan MacTavish. Having lived twenty-one deliriously contented years in the Scottish Highlands, he has recently learned he is the sole heir of an English Marquis and is now required to assume his grandfather's title and estates. Worse still, a betrothal has already been arranged without his consent to the ravishing, viper-tongued Ophelia —who has been heard to make scathing statements in public about her Scottish barbarian groom-to-be.

Bad circumstance, however, can sometimes have distinctly pleasurable advantages—especially when his unwanted intended's sudden desire to repent brings the dashing highlander into close proximity with the enchanting Sabrina. Now this is a woman for whom Duncan would willingly abandon his beloved Scotland: a kindred spirit whose wit delights him...and whose essence is the exquisite stuff of dreams. But duty and station forbid Sabrina's and Duncan's desired union. And a secret dwells in the lady's past, and it threatens their romance. Under such adverse conditions a match that should be, a passion that must be, cannot possibly be—unless true love can somehow, miraculously find a way.