Ten Reasons to Stay (The School for Heiresses)

by Sabrina Jeffries

A delightful eNovella from New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries about a young woman who learns that you can’t learn about love from a textbook.

In Ten Reasons to Stay, previously published in the anthology The School for Heiresses, lessons go far beyond etiquette and needlepoint. Eliza Crenshawe’s lesson is to look before she leaps. But when she discovers that her new guardian plans to marry her off without so much as a Season, she forgets all that. She flees—on a horse she unwittingly steals (oops!)—from Colin Hunt, a newly minted earl who wants nothing more than for her to go home…or stay forever.

• ISBN10: 1476731616
• ISBN13: 9781476731612
• Publish Date: 6 May 2013
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Pocket Star
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 150
• Language: English

Reviews

[Linda]

*I received a free ARC of Ten Reasons to Stay from Pocket Star via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review*

Very quick and hot historical romance. This and other reviews can also be found on my blog (un)Conventional Bookviews.

Full review to come soon.

[Nadz@Totally Addicted to Reading]

I generally don't make it a habit to read novellas because they are short and I always feel that the stories are a bit rushed. This was an exception. I really enjoyed this book. It was funny and totally entertaining. This book has peaked my interest in The School of Heiress Series.
I loved the characters and how they were developed, absolutely interesting. Eliza Crenshawe is a strong female who was not about to let her guardian force her into an unwanted marriage as such she took matters in her own hand. In doing this she encountered Colin Hunt, the Earl of Monteith. Colin has been residing in India for sometime and had return to England to take up his rightful place as the Earl. He is a widower and grieving for his wife. He was not interested in getting involved in a relationship, but all this changed when he met Eliza. Their meeting was a bit unconventional but it made for a few laughs.
This was a fun and easy read, I actually completed it in a few hours. The story flowed beautifully and was not disjointed. This is my first time reading this author's work and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Because it was a novella the romance between Eliza and Colin was sudden. It was quite hot and steamy not what you would usually find in historical romances. I loved how Colin stood up to Eliza's guardian in fighting for her. My only compliant is that it was too short.

I received a copy of this book compliments of Netgalley