Suitably Yours : M. Culler : 9798224274116 : 25 May 2024 : Can a wounded widower and a reluctant bride find true love? Rose Lycombe's passion for botany threatens to fray the final nerve of her matchmaking mother. It's unnatural for a well-bred young lady in 1845 to be concerned with anything other than preparations for marriage to a carefully selected gentleman. Rose may be able to bear letting go of her secret botany studies-but how can she stand to wed the bluff and brash Captain Bryce? As Rose resigns herself to a future with a thoroughly incompatible spouse, she receives a shock in the form of a far more suitable suitor. Sir Edmund Locke, a reclusive widower with little use for high society, surprises the entire Lycombe household when he makes his addresses to Rose. No one can fathom why this quiet, dour man with a hard mouth and even harder armor around his heart is expressing an interest in outwardly unremarkable Rose. Could it be that Locke can see what others cannot? Per