Books by Amanda McCabe
A Notorious Woman begins in grand fashion. Set during Carnival in 16th century Venice, it is obvious from the outset that this story will be full of intrigue, and that readers will have to pay attention to the various twists and turns of the plot. Perfumer Julietta Bassano has been summoned to the h ...
Having written traditional Regencies and one Super Regency, Amanda McCabe makes a solid debut in her first full length Regency historical, Lady Midnight.
Katerina Bruni, the daughter of the most famous courtesan in Venice, is at a party on a yacht with her potential first protector, her mother, a ...
I am a sucker for the childhood-friends-falling-in-love plotline. I like the grounding that it gives to a romantic relationship; you know the love found isn’t entirely based on a physical, hormonal reaction, but rather on a friendship, a relationship and a history that goes back years. And when th ...
Unlike many traditional Regencies, Lady in Disguise is set against the background of a specific historical event - the 1814 visit of Tsar Alexander I to England. Lady Emma Weston, niece and ward of a Russian diplomat and his English wife, arrives in England for her first visit to her homeland since ...
I thought I had a real winner when I began One Touch Of Magic. The heroine is an intelligent woman, an antiquarian. Good! The hero is a former soldier, now a marquess with a social conscience. Good again! The book has a nice cast of secondary characters who actually play a part in the story and don' ...
Cassandra (Cassie) Richards, who lived in Jamaica for the past 14 years, recently lost her parents and has returned to England to be with her Aunt Chat. The two women, and Cassie's friend Antoinette, have come to Cornwall to visit Aunt Chat's friend - the Dowager Lady Royce. Lady Royce's son Phillip ...
Traditional Regencies, as all familiar with the sub-genre know, usually limit the characters' sexual interaction to "kisses;" any more than that would be contrary to the period, and traditional Regencies are nothing if not accurate to their time. That said, however, a lot of Regency authors make the ...
Reading The Errant Earl was the romance equivalent of sitting down to a well-executed custard pudding. Not exactly haute cuisine, but a known quantity with a little extra something thrown in to make the experience enjoyable. And sometimes a little literary custard pudding is just the thing you're lo ...
There are two kinds of books, plot-driven and character-driven. I'm still trying to figure out which Amanda McCabe's latest, Lady Rogue is. It can't be plot-driven, if only because there's no actual plot. Things happen, usually very predictably, but it's all quite meandering and aimless. But it can' ...
When you read a book like The Spanish Bride you realize how essential a good conflict is to a romance. Everyone wants the hero and heroine to love each other, but if there is no realistic threat to them or any particular reason for them to be apart, then there's no story.
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