The Historical Romance Sampler
Sep 28, 2026 · 35 min · 14 segments
Rachel Griffiths joins the podcast to read from her Regency romance, JUST FOR THE SEASON. We talk about her English heritage, how her experience as a successful children's book editor prepared her (or…
historical romance way, Anna's best friend Charlotte is the main character of this book.
And what this book is about is Charlotte is very headstrong, and she creates a scandal, which requires that she get married.
She decides to line up every top bachelor in the United States, not in the United States, in London, and she invites them all down to her country house, and she is going to kind of try them out for the summer.
So she's creating her own sort of version of the bachelorette where she gets to choose among the hot men.
But of course, Wolfgang, the main male character, is not in the running, even though he has a massive crush on Charlotte, and he's just grouchily watching from the sidelines.
And what I was going to read for you is just the start of the book, which I think sets up both of the characters and starts to get at the history between them.
historical romance way, Anna's best friend Charlotte is the main character of this book.
And what this book is about is Charlotte is very headstrong, and she creates a scandal, which requires that she get married.
She decides to line up every top bachelor in the United States, not in the United States, in London, and she invites them all down to her country house, and she is going to kind of try them out for the summer.
So she's creating her own sort of version of the bachelorette where she gets to choose among the hot men.
But of course, Wolfgang, the main male character, is not in the running, even though he has a massive crush on Charlotte, and he's just grouchily watching from the sidelines.
And what I was going to read for you is just the start of the book, which I think sets up both of the characters and starts to get at the history between them.
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