The Countess (Regency series Book 5)

Catherine Coulter's revamped first novel - a gothic regency romance.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author's very first novel, rewritten as a Gothic. A woman who makes the wrong choice for a husband may not live to marry the man of her dreams... Read more Continue reading Read less REVIEW
"A good storyteller ... Coulter always keeps the pace brisk." - Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Ms. Coulter is a one-of-a-kind author who knows how to hook her readers and keep them coming back for more." - The Best Reviews

"Coulter is excellent at portraying the romantic tension between her heroes and heroines, and she manages to write explicitly but beautifully about sex as well as love." - Milwaukee Journal

"Coulter instinctively feeds our desire to believe in knights in shining armor and everlasting love - historical romance at its finest." - BookReporter.com

"One of the genre's great storytellers." - Kansas City Star

"One of the masters of the genre." - The Newark Star-Ledger

"Catherine Coulter is one of the best authors of exciting thrillers writing today." - Midwest Book Review ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Catherine Coulter is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the FBI Thrillers featuring husband and wife team Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. She is also the author - with J. T. Ellison - of the Brit in the FBI series. She lives in Sausalito, California.
FROM THE BACK COVER
DEAR READER: The Countess was my very first novel, published in 1978 under the title The Autumn Countess. Even at that amazingly young age, I still realized that I should write about something I knew. Since I'd grown up reading Georgette Heyer and my master's degree is in nineteenth-century European history, it wasn't much of a mental stretch -- a Regency romance. Well, sort of.

As it turned out, The Autumn Countess danced into the bookstores not as a Regency, but as a Gothic masquerading as a Regency.

I've rewritten the novel extensively to make it even more unabashedly Gothic in form, texture, and content, including use of the first-person narration in the classic Gothic style.

Andrea Jameson, unlike the conventional Gothic heroine, isn't a destitute governess. She's young, rich, and toothsome, and adores her Dandie Dinmont terrier, George. However, Andrea doesn't have a single dream of meeting Mr. Right, marrying, and living happily ever after. Go figure.

She strikes a bargain with an older widowed earl who promises her all the razzle-dazzle without the obey part. She's perfectly happy with the deal until she meets the earl's nephew and realizes fairly quickly that she might have made an exceptional blunder.

But she doesn't have much time to ponder her dim-witted choice of husband because someone is trying to kill her. Will she survive to marry the man of her dreams?Do tell me if you enjoyed the rebirth of my Gothic tale.

Catherine Coulter

Write me at P.O. Box 17, Mill Valley, CA. 94942















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