The Season

by Sarah MacLean

Seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford is about to undergo her first "season" in London, along with her two best friends, Vivi and Ella.  Alex's mother insists that she be perfectly dressed and perfectly well-mannered at all times, especially while at the many balls and dinners she must attend in order to catch a rich and noble husband.  Marriage is something that Alex is not at all ready for, and proper behavior not her strong suit, but there is nothing to be done but to go along.  Fortunately, Alex and her friends can have occasional intellegent and witty conversations with her older brothers and their friend, Lord Blackmoor, whom Alex has known all her life.   And the season becmes positively enthralling when the girls become involved in solving the possible murder of Lord Blackmoor's father.  Add to that the intense and surprising attraction Alex feels for Lord Blackmoor, and the London season becomes unexpecatantly fascinating.  On this year's Texas Lone Star list, The Season is a fun Regency romance perfect for girls of all ages.