No Other Choice: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: Choices, #2

By Leenie Brown

At first, all he wanted was her forgiveness. Now, he wants her to be his countess.

 

He insulted her before he had even met her. It was not purposefully done, of course, but it was done nonetheless. Now, after spending a great deal of time trying to make amends for his words, Lord Rycroft has done it again. But was he truly supposed to be pleased about being required to escort his mother and her latest matchmaking project from soiree to soiree during the season? He thought not. 

 

For her part, Mary Bennet is not eager to spend the season with the likes of Lord Rycroft. His mother, she adores. Him, she scolds and attempts to tolerate. However, despite Lord Rycroft's exceptional talent for insulting her, Mary plans to have a grand season and finish it with either a husband or a wonderful tale to tell. She must only ignore him and focus her attention on presenting herself to best advantage to any gentleman she meets.

 

While Mary tries to avoid him, Lord Rycroft works diligently to make amends for his words. In the process, he unwittingly loses his heart to her, and what began as an arduous task of enduring the season becomes a quest to earn her acceptance, even if it means giving her no other choice.

 

No Other Choice is the second book in Leenie Brown's Choices: A Pride and Prejudice Variation Series. If you like sweet Regency romances that begin with an insult and end with lasting love, then download  No Other Choice, and join Mary and Lord Rycroft as they discover that the person they thought they wanted to avoid is actually the one they cannot live without. 

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Book Length:

• Just over 45,600 words
• Regular print edition = 209 paperback pages
• Large print edition = 243 paperback pages

Books in this series:

1. Her Father's Choice
2. No Other Choice
3. His Inconvenient Choice
4. Her Heart's Choice

Each story in this series is a complete romance and can stand alone. However, reading the series in order will provide a more satisfying experience since details from early books may appear in later books. This book was first published in 2015 and was re-edited and extended to create a second edition in 2021.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leenie B Books
• Release date: Dec 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781519931320

Leenie Brown

Leenie Brown has always been a girl with an active imagination, which, while growing up, was a both an asset, providing many hours of fun as she played out stories, and a liability, when her older sister and aunt would tell her frightening tales.  At one time, they had her convinced Dracula lived in the trunk at the end of the bed she slept in when visiting her grandparents! Although it has been years since she cowered in her bed in her grandparents’ basement, she still has an imagination which occasionally runs away with her, and she feeds it now as she did then ─ by reading! Her heroes, when growing up, were authors, and the worlds they painted with words were (and still are) her favourite playgrounds!  She was that child, under the covers with the flashlight, reading until the wee hours of the morning…and pretending not to be tired the next day so her mother wouldn’t find out. In addition to feeding her imagination, she also exercises it ─ by writing. While writing has been an activity she has dabbled in over the years, it blossomed into a full-fledged obsession when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction.  Leenie had first fallen in love with Jane Austen's work in her early teens when she was captivated by the tale of a girl, who like her, was the second born of five daughters.  Now, as an adult, she spends much time in the regency world, playing with the characters from her favourite Jane Austen novels and a few that are of her own creation. When she is not traipsing down a trail in an attempt to keep up with her imagination, Leenie resides in the beautiful province of Nova Scotia with her two sons and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with a healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tilney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).

Reviews for No Other Choice

[Chelsea · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved Mary in this book and seeing how the relationship between her and Lord Rycroft develops as well as getting to know Lord Rycroft. I really enjoyed this book and getting to see how the story is continuing after the first book in the series Her Father's Choice: A Pride and Prejudice Novella. I am also really looking forward to seeing what happens in the next book in this series His Inconvenient Choice: A Pride and Prejudice Novella.

[Leena Aluru · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Ive likeď all books that have given Mary Bennett her due. Not bas for a novellas. Rycroft is very likeable.