Jacey Bedford's Journal

Subtitled A Novel in Three Parts and written by three authors, this didn't quite work for me, but I admit that I don't know whether I'd have thought that if I'd believed it to be all the work of one author.

Hugh Dunne, Earl of Briarly, needs a wife, or more importantly he needs an heir, but all his passions are with his horses. He cares for nothing except the breeding and training of his Arabian racehorses. Despairing, his sister arranges a house-party and invites a host of eligible females, and men to balance the numbers. Hugh has a list, but if he's not quick of the mark it seems likely that his friends will lay claim to brides of their own. So this is three romances in one book. The stories are all interconnected. I understand that each individual author took point on each of the three romances. The stories are sweet but forgettable, though Hugh does end up with the woman who was under his nose all along. In a book of this length there simply isn't time/space to develop the characters, so I'm afraid that it was a bit disappointing.