American heiress seeks merger with ranking British husband no mutual affection required. Louisa Silverton was brought up in the cold world of account books and high finance. Her mind is all facts and figures just like her father who proposes she strengthen the family business holdings by venturing from New York to England to catch […]
Miss Carole Quincy has a problem. Her private sketchbook full of her dreamy architectural ideas was dropped in the Duke of Azureford’s cottage when she attended his party. She was unable to recover it when it tumbled into the library. Six months later, she is desperate to retrieve it before the duke returns to his […]
We return to the Romney Marsh thirteen years after the events of book one, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, when the scamp, Luke Doomsday, is all grown up. While I think A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel turned out to be a great follow up story, even tying up one glinting plot intrigue […]
A daring duke who spied for his country during the Napoleonic War finds himself in need of help from the Romani woman he recently rescued to complete his latest mission. I was happy to pick up new to me author, Samantha Holt’s book featuring a class and race difference romance paired with a large dose […]
I am always excited to get a new audio from this author. It’s weird because I don’t read much historical fiction other than fantasy. So far I have avoided looking up what really happened with this series but after this one I couldn’t resist. I think The Turncoat takes place during the summer of 1777. […]
One naïve choice can and does change the course of one gently-bred girl’s life forcing her to take the long, painful road to lasting happiness and romance. Over the years, Amy D’Orazio has dazzled me with her intriguing story setups, plot twists, and colorful characters and A Folly of Youth was no exception. A Folly […]
Victoria Holt was one of my Big Three intros to classic, gothic romantic suspense along with Phyllis Whitney and Mary Stewart. I devoured her huge backlist as a teenager and pretty much loved it all. It has been many years and many twists in my reading taste since I picked up one of her books […]
A lonely widow with inner scars finds not just a long lost sister, but a real chance at happiness against the backdrop of a naval hospital during the height of the Napoleonic War. Carla Kelly’s historical romances give a strong nod to historical authenticity, the importance of situation and character background, but above all is […]
At the end of Pride & Prejudice, Elizabeth and Jane Bennet ride off into the sunset with their handsome, wealthy husbands and Lydia is off to the North unaware yet that her Wickham was no prize while a brief summary about the rest of the Bennets wrap things up neatly for the reader. But, many […]
Hidden in plain sight right alongside the human world of Regency England is a darker, edgier shadow world of powerful vampires and Jane Austen’s classic gets a blood infusion. A Pride & Prejudice Vampire Romance variation? I’m game. Tempt Me opens with Fitzwilliam Darcy, Master vampire on the hunt for a rogue vampire, Wickham, who […]