The Schoolmaster's Daughter by Naomi Laeuchli
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The Schoolmaster's Daughter is ideal for readers who enjoy historical romances layered with scheming alliances, unexpected consequences, and complex character dynamics where hidden motives and sharp wit drive the narrative.
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Book Details
The Schoolmaster’s Daughter By Naomi Laeuchli
Published by Indpendently Published on July 20, 2024
Genres: Historical Fiction, Regency Romance
Formats: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 232
Deep in debt and desperate for a solution, Julius Claydon knows that marrying a wealthy woman is his only hope. When he meets the beautiful and rich Clara Haughton in Bath, he believes she could be his salvation, but there's one obstacle in his Lydia Cray, Clara's sharp-witted and penniless companion.
When Lydia quickly sees through his fortune-hunting motives, Julius proposes an alliance. He will help secure her future if she helps him secure Clara's heart.
But Lydia is not all she appears to be, and she has a plan of her to teach him a lesson he won't soon forget. But her scheming soon leads to unforeseen consequences for them both.
Can love spring from deception?
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Excerpt from The Schoolmaster's Daughter
“You seem to have taken a dislike to me,” he remarked.
“I have.” It came back promptly.
“Is my dancing really that bad?”
“No. You seem quite a capable dancer,” she said as if forced to be fair against her inclination.
“Then I’m afraid I don’t know what I’ve done to offend.”
“I’m sure you don’t.”
They crossed the room once more and came back together. Her hand was stiff in his own, and there was something unyielding in the way she moved through the steps. “Are you going to explain it to me?”
She shrugged. “I know you for what you are.”
“And what exactly is that?”
“A fortune hunter.”
It was stated so flatly, so calmly, and so completely correctly, that he couldn’t help himself: he threw back his head and laughed. She looked surprised. Perhaps he should have tried to disassemble, but there was a sharpness and confidence in her tone that made it impossible. However she knew, she did indeed know, and her forthrightness amused him.
“I’m sorry, Miss Cray. How did you guess?” He did not bother to hide from his voice that he was impressed.
“Well, I at least give you credit for not trying to hide it now,” she said a little dryly.
“How could I? When you have shot the target so exactly in the bull’s-eye. Credit where credit is due.” He gave a little mock bow.
“You seem an unusual specimen of your species.”
“There are always a few outliers. Have you met so many of us?”
“You must realize I’m quite used to dealing with your kind.”
“Are you? How very humbling you are. And here I thought myself clever.”
Excerpt provided by the author/publisher for use in this post.
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Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Naomi Laeuchli has lived overseas in nine different countries on three different continents where her family was posted with the American Foreign Service. In November 2012 she moved from the Democratic Republic of the Congo back to the states and currently lives in Arizona with five horses. She works as a freelance writer and part time at the local library. She has written several interactive stories for Choice of Games, Tales, and Dorian.About Naomi Laeuchli
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Guest Post by the Author of The Schoolmaster's Daughter
I didn’t do as much research as you might expect given that I was writing a historical novel. Most of my research was about confirming things I’d learned from reading other regency novels. For example: I had it in my head that Bath, in the later years of the Regency Era, had lost some of its popularity and was no longer quite the hub of society as it had been previously.
This was important for making my story work, so I wanted to confirm and it was true. Bath originally became popular because it was considered good for ailments to go and drink and bathe in the water there. However, as so often happens, medical wisdom changed. Doctors started saying that sea bathing was better for your health. Which is when Brighton became popular, especially after the Regent started visiting that seaside town regularly.
One fun factoid I did discover while reading about Brighton (that in no way appears in my book so this factoid did not get used in The Schoolmaster’s Daughter) was the bathing wagons! Women would get into small, covered wagons that would then be drawn out into the water. They’d change in the wagons and then step out of them, right down into the water helped by people called Dippers!
Readers have a strong vision of the regency era as it appears in books and that was the world I wanted to write in. It’s not always, completely historically accurate, but it evokes a common image of a place that people, myself included, enjoy visiting.
The one thing I did spend some time researching was a song. There is a musical moment in the story when our heroine is at the pianoforte and I wanted an authentic song of the time, that also thematically fitted with the book. I landed on The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlow, a poem which was later put to music.
Two verses of the poem appear in the book:
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the Rocks,
Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow Rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing Madrigals.
The Schoolmaster’s Daughter touches on themes of what money can and cannot buy, and a love song that dwells on the beauties of the earth, something which is incomparable and cannot truly be owned, seemed fitting for the moment.
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This sounds like an interesting book.
I do enjoy Historical Fiction and this sounds like a book that I would enjoy. I enjoyed the guest post.
Thank you so much!
Sounds like a book I will enjoy.
Thank you for featuring THE SCHOOLMASTER'S DAUGHTER today.