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MISS ELIZA'S GENTLEMAN CALLER is a Regency romance novel set in London just after Waterloo. Young and innocent, Miss Eliza Foxburn is genuinely alarmed to discover that her widower father, Sir Richard, is courting a young lady whose father is in trade! Worse yet, the chit is only nineteen, just one year older than Eliza! The tendre is making her father look like an old fool, at least to Eliza. Surely she can make him see that his impossible infatuation is a mistake. And what better way than to encourage an impossibly older man to come courting her!General March Huntley, a dashing officer of thirty-eight, is hardly over the hill. Back in London after a long campaign, he is making female hearts flutter. Yet he is vastly surprised when the lively Miss Eliza Foxburn asks him to call on her! When she steals a kiss, Huntley is pleased. But when he learns she is only playing a foolish game, Huntley, known as Wellington's Master Strategist, plans a battle of his own: to outfox Miss Foxburn and teach her a lesson . . . in love."The character's and situations in this Regency are unbelievably clever and funny! I loved this book!" – Regency author, Melissa Frederick."Miss Eliza's Gentleman Caller is reminiscent of the best of Jane Austen; very well done and laugh out loud amusing! This one is sure to please."–Red River Reviews.MARILYN CLAY is a multi-published author and respected historian of the Regency period. A former University editor for the University of Texas at Dallas, for sixteen years, Marilyn Clay published and edited The Regency Plume Newsletter, an international newsletter containing well-researched articles useful to writers, historians and people interested in the 18th and early 19th centuries in English history.Historical essays by Marilyn Clay appear in Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s – 1830s published by Garland Books.Ms. Clay recent historical suspense novels include DECEPTIONS: A Jamestown Novel and SECRETS AND LIES: A Jamestown Novel, both released in hardcover from Thomson/Gale in 2010 and 2012 and now available in print from major on-line retailers and as e-books. THE LETTER, also set in Jamestown in available in both print and e-book formats. BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY recently published by Mayfair Books, was simultaneously released in print and e-book formats, and is also available from major on-line retailers and for various e-readers.