How long does it take to read The Reluctant Heiress?
The Reluctant Heiress by Marlene Suson takes about 3 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 57 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 215 pages, about 59,125 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Fortune hunters -- that's who flocked to court her! But Miss Diana Landale, unhappy heiress to an estate of near-gargantuan proportions, would have none of her suitors' sordid folderol: she would marry for love alone. — But the elegant Lord Alexander will not be dissuaded, and Diana may be forced into this most mercenary match. With desperate daring, she schemes to elope with a passionate French lover. So what if her fabulous fortune is forfeit? Yet her plot is foiled: her Frenchman turns tail, and only marriage to Alexander will quash the scandal. Now she's matched to a man who sees past her disguises, and the matrimonal gleam in his eyes becomes most un-mercenary....
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Traditional Regency, Inheritance and succession, Fiction
