The Rogue’s Bride is the second book in LaFoy’s trilogy about the three illegitimate daughters of a deceased duke who had arranged for the girls to be ennobled by the Queen and made wards of his heir. The eldest daughter married the new duke in Her Scandalous Marriage, so this book tells the story of…
Sometimes first impressions can be deceiving. Because Juliana Chase does not favor dark-haired men and longs for a husband who will “love her to distraction”, she immediately writes off James Trevor, the Earl of Stafford, when she meets him. Not only is he dark, but he practices medicine and actually takes his position in the…
With its title alone, The Wicked One may bring more than one curious reader around looking for a deliciously wicked hero as the title infers. But it’s best you understand upfront that it is only a name given to the hero for past wrongs he never committed. Though he’s seen his share of wild living,…
A guardian/ward relationship isn’t one of my favorite romance themes and a story of a young woman who swears she will never marry is even less so. But if anyone could persuade me not to avoid this type of book, it would be the author Julia Justiss, whom I can count on to be a…
Wolf’s Temptation is part of a spy series set in Georgian England whose hero spends his time trying to keep arms shipments from falling into the hands of those treasonous colonial Americans. Well, that’s different at least, I thought, but I finished the book thinking that this was a book full of missed opportunities. Ethan…
Ok, let me get my title rant out of the way, right up front. The hero of The Rake’s Proposal, Benjamin Sinclair, is the son of a viscount and is referred to as “Lord Benjamin” and “Lord Sinclair” throughout the book. He is neither. He is “Benjamin” or “Mr. Sinclair” – if he must be…
Roman Britannia is not an historical period in which I usually dabble, but I so enjoyed Joy Nash’s last two books with that setting that I thought I’d give Liberty a try. I am sorry that I did, for, while historical detail abounds and I learned more about gladiators than I really wanted to know,…
I’m of two minds about this one. On the one hand, Julia Ross is a skilled writer whose prose is always a joy to read. On the other, regretfully, the story she tells here isn’t a very interesting one. Frankly, my assessment of this one is echoed by my feelings about Games of Pleasure, the…
The Rules of Seduction takes place against the backdrop of economic panic and a growing lack of trust in England’s banks. Lord Hayden Rothwell, the younger brother of an eccentric marquess, has discovered that the bank where he kept some of his family’s money has defrauded him. The person responsible is Timothy Longwell, the younger…
The Stolen Bride is the third book in Joyce’s deWarenne Family series, a family formed when Eleanor deWarenne’s father, an Irish earl, married Sean O’Neill’s mother, the widow of a prominent Irish landowner who was killed by the British. Together they blended a large family of siblings, but Elle has never felt just a sisterly…
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