To Catch A Suitor

For years Elizabeth Ashburn has been in love with Oliver Turner, her closest friend. He still thinks of her as "Little Lizzie." Tired of waiting, she enters her first London Season with a plan: win the attention of the man Society calls the Unobtainable, and settle her restless heart.

Oliver is in love with her too, though he has decided a match between them would be a mistake. That decision does not hold up well in practice. Each time a Season mishap lands Elizabeth in trouble, he is the one who steps in, and he keeps turning up wherever she goes.

This is a Regency romance in the friends-to-lovers mould, with a modern, breezy tone. The heat is low and the doors stay closed. Elizabeth ends up with two suitors, which gives the story a hint of a love triangle. It is the second book in the Dalton Family series and was published in February 2020.

The pull of the book is the gap between what both of them say and what they feel. Elizabeth chases a proper match while Oliver cannot keep away, and years of talking themselves out of their feelings begin to wear thin.