Queen of Diamonds is the third book in Barbara Metzger’s House of Cards trilogy; it traces the story of the kidnapped Lady Charlotte Endicott. Charlotte was three when a man with a gun – professing to love her mother – caused a carriage accident that killed her mother and all other occupants but her. The…
I haven’t read a Susan Johnson novel, other than an anthology contribution or two, since 1999’s To Please a Lady, the sequel to my favorite Johnson book – Outlaw (1993). I was surprised to find When Someone Loves You almost completely devoid of a plot for its two engaging leads, and with no hot love…
It’s been some time now since I had a good cry over a book, but toward the end of Simply Love I had to get out several handkerchiefs. When Mary Balogh is on top of her game, she is hard to beat and she has a real winner here. In A Summer To Remember we…
Love Is Blind and so is Lady Clarissa Crambray. Or practically so. Being practically so myself, I enjoyed reading Clarissa’s story and felt an immediate empathy for the most near-sighted heroine I’ve ever read. Clarissa is in London with her horrid stepmother who is trying to get her married off this Season. She refuses to…
The latest in the Merry Widows series features Beatrice, Lady Somerfield. As a 35-year-old widow with two young daughters, she keeps quite busy chaperoning her niece and working for the Benevolent Widows Fund, a charity assisting widows of soldiers killed in the war. On the night of a masquerade ball, she dresses as Artemis and…
From London with Love is a High Concept novel: Charlie’s Angels in Regency England. And while there are some slight differences – the Bosley character is the one named “Charlie” and the mysterious never-seen-string-puller Charlie is now the mysterious never-seen-string-puller “Lady M.” – the story proved to be just as inane and just as eye-roll…
One Night with a Spy is part of the Royal Four series and centers on Julia Barrowby, whose husband was known as The Fox. Yes, this is one of those books where the characters belong to arcane spy groups with animal names. Unbeknownst to the other members of the Four, Julia acted as the Fox…
The Rogue Report is a newsletter, delivered twice a month to unmarried women of the ton. Within its pages are detailed exposés of various eligible gentlemen: their gaming debts, their mistresses, their drunken exploits, their scandalous secrets. Young women do well to follow its news carefully; to ignore it is to risk a life of…
Scottish romances are one of my guilty pleasures. Though most I’ve read contain truly inaccurate views of history, there is just something about the place that draws me anyway. Though this novel has some significant weaknesses, the author does a wonderful job of conjuring up a magical setting, though the novel is also at times…
Margaret MacDonald is two weeks away from her wedding day in Kathleen Givens’ On A Highland Shore when she finds her betrothed in bed with her best friend. Heartbroken, she swears she will not marry Lachlan, but he is cousin to King Alexander and her family needs the alliance her marriage will bring. Her father…
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