Last year, Cat Gardiner released her The Darcy Files and I fell for her debonair, swoony hero based on Jane Austen’s Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pride & Prejudice. This year, she regals with Darcy’s lady, the sassy, witty and utterly charming Elizabeth Bennet in her The Lizzy Chronicles. Two historical and two contemporaries offer a variety […]
Two Lies and a Lord is the fourth book in the Seduction series, and like most historical romance can be read a stand alone. I have not read any of the other books in the series and thought there were a few references to some interactions of the couple in a prior book I never […]
A maid with a mysterious past finds herself the object of a young lord’s interest. Something tells her this is about more than the usual attempt to seduce a servant and if she believes his surmise about their connection, her life has just changed forever. Both Jessie Lewis and Amy D’Orazio have separately written books […]
The Cambridge dons are back in action as a detective team, but this time their helping out a fellow professor accused of murder. Charlie Cochrane’s Cambridge Fellows has long been an auto-buy historical cozy mystery series set against the world of academia in Edwardian and post WWI England with a cerebral pair of forbidden lovers as […]
When Darcy encounters ‘The One’ – the only woman for him, this should have been a moment of triumph, but instead, starts a thought-provoking emotional journey of the heart to win a woman’s love. I’ve read two enjoyable mystery romps from Kelly Dean Jolley and I was aware that he wrote a few Jane Austen-related […]
A twist in the classic story leads to a Pride & Prejudice variation story set against the backdrop of Regency London and puts a vulnerable, shy young lady at the heart of matters. I’ve enjoyed a handful of Jann Rowland’s heartwarming, low-angst Austenesque romances and I was particularly eager when I saw that a favorite […]
The purpose of Thrifty Thursday is to read a book which was free (at some point). This is a collection of freebies I have read which have characters who are druids, dryads and similar mythology. Kindle freebie on October 29, 2022 (currently free at Amazon and Barnes & Noble as of writing this post) Overall […]
For several years, I’ve seen fellow historical romance fans adoring Tessa Dare’s Spindle Cove series and I finally took the chance to sample the goods. After this encounter, I foresee a continuation to polish off the full series. Once Upon a Winter’s Eve is a novella that falls between the first and second full-length books […]
In an intriguing plot twist, the author poses the question, ‘what if Elizabeth Bennet was as wealthy as Darcy, himself?’ Laraba Kendig’s Pride and Prejudice variation tale takes familiar characters along new paths as a result. Elizabeth Bennet’s Inheritance begins with Elizabeth Bennet learning that an older relation of her Aunt Gardiner whom Elizabeth kept […]
One earlier visit with a Victoria Holt tale on audio whetted my appetite for more. I was pleased to take up The Shivering Sands and listen in as new to me narrator, Kitty Kelly, took me back to Victorian times so I could savor a gently-paced gothic romantic suspense. The Shivering Sands opens with the […]