She's right in there with William Dunford, the hero from Minx, who makes a brief appearance (he's still a bachelor in How to Marry a Marquis, which actually takes place before Minx.)įour plus six plus eight plus seven plus one plus one plus one, mark down eight, carry the two…Įlizabeth Hotchkiss added up the column of numbers for the fourth time, came up with the same answer she’d come up with three times before, and groaned. If you look hard you might find my buddy and fellow author Danelle Harmon.You can read the book and decide which cat donated the personality and which donated the looks. He's actually a combination of my mother's cat, affectionately known as psychokitty, and my sister's cat Malcolm (pictured at right).

And lest I forget, Malcolm the cat is real.

Lucas (the brother) isn't named after anybody I just liked the name! Elizabeth Hotchkiss is named after my high school ( The Hotchkiss School) and James Sidwell, Marquis of Riverdale, is a nod toward my husband's education (he went to elementary and middle school at Sidwell Friends, then transferred to The Riverdale Country School for high school when he moved to New York.) Elizabeth is also my cousin's name, and her younger sisters are named after my mom and her twin sister, Jane and Susan.

Other fun points of interest-the main characters are all named after old alma maters.(If you don't know what this is, The Rules was a monster-bestseller that basically told women how to find a husband.) Suddenly I thought-What if a book like The Rules had come out in Regency? And then, while I was brainstorming the book (it took so long to brainstorm I wrote To Catch an Heiress first!) America went crazy over The Rules. How to Marry a Marquis is a book for which the title came way before the story.The second of a funny, fast-paced, Regency-set duet from Julia Quinn, the bestselling author of the global phenomenon Bridgerton. But when practice becomes all too perfect, James decides that there is only one rule worth following-that Elizabeth marry her marquis. Intrigued by the alluring young woman with the curious little rulebook, he gallantly offers to help her find a husband… by practicing her wiles on him. James Sidwell, the Marquis of Riverdale, has been summoned to rescue his aunt from a blackmailer, a task that requires him to pose as the new estate manager, and his primary suspect is his aunt’s companion, Elizabeth. With three younger siblings to support, she knows she has to marry for money, but who might have guessed how desperate she’s become? A guidebook to seduction might be just the thing she needs-and what harm could there be in taking a little peek?

When Elizabeth Hotchkiss stumbles upon a copy of How to Marry a Marquis in her employer’s library, she’s convinced someone is playing a cruel joke.

How to Marry a Marquis by Julia Quinn