Books by Julia Justiss

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A Season of Flirtation

A Season of Flirtation is the first book in Julia Justiss’ Least Likely to Wed series. It features Lady Laura Pomeroy, a woman who has just offered to give her friend lessons in society etiquette, and is shocked when her friend’s brother wants to join in! He is at first convinced Laura is nothi ...

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The Explorer Baroness

Julia Justiss concludes her Heirs in Waiting trilogy with The Explorer Baroness, a sweet tale about an independent importer and the travel-hungry baron-to-be who comes to love her.  The way Justiss intermarries two different cultures here is lovely, but I did groan at some very hoary old clichés t ...

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The Bluestocking Duchess

Julia Justiss’ historicals often read somewhat like trads with a little extra depth to them, so I pulled The Bluestocking Duchess out of my stack and came away quite charmed. The hero and heroine start off on somewhat equal social footing. Jocelyn Sudderfeld is the daughter and sister of schola ...

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The Railway Countess

Julia Justiss continues her Heirs in Waiting series with the very sweet-natured and somewhat predictable The Railway Countess, about two very typically atypical romance protagonists who still manage to find love in a way that amuses and entertains the reader. Crispin d’Aubignon is a railway inv ...

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The Bluestocking Duchess

The Bluestocking Duchess launches Julia Justiss’ new Heirs in Waiting series. It’s a well written friends-to-lovers tale that is sweet but doesn’t quite have the passion or charm of other books I’ve read by this author. Jocelyn Sudderfeld is the daughter of the Duke of Farisdeen’s estat ...

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The Enticing of Miss Standish

Julia Justiss’ Cinderella Spinsters series comes to a close with The Enticing of Miss Standish, which takes place against the backdrop of the cotton mills and the societal changes being wrought by the industrial revolution.  It’s a well-researched story packed with information about the manufac ...

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The Tempting of the Governess

I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for master/governess romances – probably a result of my long-time love for Jane Eyre – so the synopsis of Julia Justiss’ The Temptation of the Governess caught my eye. It proved to be a charming, character-driven romance featuring two likeable characters forced ...

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The Awakening of Miss Henley

Julia Justiss delivers again with The Awakening of Miss Henley, the first book in her Cinderella Spinsters series. While at school, Emma Henley and her two friends make a pact to eschew the marriage mart and establish a home together as single women performing important charitable and political work ...

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The Earl's Inconvenient Wife

Julia Justiss’ series about the Lattimars, who must swim against the social tide to win their happily ever afters, continues with The Earl’s Inconvenient Wife, in which two best friends find themselves married in name only – at least at first… Temperance - Temper - Lattimar has a scandalo ...

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A Most Unsuitable Match

Julia Justiss opens her new Sisters of Scandal series with A Most Unsuitable Match, in which a young lady tainted by a scandal not of her own making strives to obey every strict rule of society and to make herself into a pattern-card of propriety in an attempt to free herself from the unkind gossip ...