When stable hand Nolan Price learns from his dying mother that he is actually the son of the Earl of Stainsby, his plans for a future with kitchen maid Hannah Burnham are shattered. Once he is officially acknowledged as the earl’s heir, Nolan will be forbidden to marry beneath his station.
Unwilling to give up the girl he loves, he devises a plan to elope–believing that once their marriage is sanctioned by God, Lord Stainsby will be forced to accept their union. However, as Nolan struggles to learn the ways of the aristocracy, he finds himself caught between pleasing Hannah and living up to his father’s demanding expectations.
At every turn, forces work to keep the couple apart, and a solution to remain together seems further and further away. With Nolan’s new life pulling him irrevocably away from the woman he loves, it seems only a miracle will bring them back together.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: A Most Noble Heir
Book Author: Susan Anne Mason
What do you like about this book:
3.5 stars
"Oh, God, how could she bear to lose him?"
If there was ever a couple prone to a "series of unfortunate events" it was Hannah Burnham and Nolan Price. Poised to claim their future, incomprehensible news reaches Nolan from his mother's deathbed; he is an heir to a fortune, not an earl's stable hand. Determined not to let this change in status separate him from Hannah, a Stainsby Hall kitchen maid whom he has loved since he was fourteen, Nolan rushes to arrange an elopement. But the powerful earl of Stainsby has quite a different plan for his newfound son and he will be stopped by nothing or no one to bring it to fruition.
Heartbroken and confused, Hannah vows patience as Nolan struggles to adjust to becoming a member of the aristocracy. She fears once more that she will be left behind, having already lost a father, a brother and essentially a mother and sister. Just when it seems that life cannot become more calamitous, it does; bringing Hannah to the doorstep of her Aunt Iris, who just happens to be a duchess.
This sweet story reads more like scenes in a play, with episode after episode of happiness and sadness, bringing more than one character to their knees in acknowledgement that only God above holds the power of life and death in His hands.
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