Unlacing Lady Thea by Louise Allen: A vacation like no other… with Napoleon in exile on Elba, Rhys Denham, Earl of Palgrave, has decided to go on the Grand Tour, and have a year-long holiday. After this last chance to sow his wild oats, he has decided that he will come […]
The Bride Said Maybe by Cathy Maxwell: There’s been a bit of talk on Harelquin Junkie recently about tropes, and which ones certain novels use. The Bride Says Maybe uses one not on the list, the “married to pay your father’s/uncle’s/brother’s/guardian’s debt” trope. In this case, the sacrificial victim is Lady […]
The Fall of a Saint by Christine Merrill: It’s a interesting story, full of initially unlikeable people. Maddie Cranston is an angry woman, a former governess who is now without a position having found herself accidental pregnant by Michael Poole, the Duke of St Aldric, also known as “The Saint.” […]
Loving Lord Ash by Sally MacKenzie is like a meringue cookie; it’s light, sweet, enjoyable and too quickly finished. The premise is a tad farfetched, but it does set up the rest of the book beautifully. Eight years earlier, the Marquis of Ashton (Ash), heir to the Duke of Greycliffe, married […]
The Trouble with Honor by Julia London starts with a scandal. A group of debutantes enter a gaming hell in search of adventure, and one, Honor Cabot, stepdaughter to the Earl of Beckington, actually sits down at a table with George Easton, the unacknowledged bastard son of the Duke of Gloucester, […]
Sinfully Yours by Cara Elliott: They both are hiding their true selves… Anna Sloane hides her career as a highly successful author of “horrid” novels by being as publicly bland and as perfect as possible. Devlin Greville, the Marquess of Davenport, but known as “Devil” Davenport, has the outward appearance […]
Lady Maggie’s Secret Scandal by Grace Burrowes: Maggie Windham is lonely and yearns to be invisible. The illegitimate daughter of a duke and his mistress, she was adopted and raised by her father and his wife and with their nine children. She also has secrets, deep dark secrets, that she […]