Regency Romance

  • Regency Christmas Wishes

    There are two kinds of romance readers out there: those who buy the Signet Regency Christmas anthology every year without fail, and those who don’t. You probably already know which group you belong to, but if you’re not sure, give this year’s version a try. As one might surmise from the title, all of the…

  • The Major Meets His Match

    The Major Meets His Match has lots of excellent elements: An exciting story, an intelligent hero, a forthright heroine, a totally delightful teenage boy who is the target of assassins, a clergyman who is sort of “Mr. Collins lite,” and much more. The only thing it lacks is a couple who made a good couple….

  • A Debt of Honour

    The “Will you be my mistress?” plot is not one of my favorites. I tend to be put off by heroes who are willing to take advantage of women who are socially or economically vulnerable. And I find it difficult to believe than any heroine would choose to strike that bargain under any but the…

  • Rachel’s Change of Heart

    Author Donna Simpson has a knack making difficult people seem sympathetic and interesting. Rachel’s Change of Heart is the story of how a girl who seems to have everything re-examines her values and discovers that what she has attained is not nearly so valuable as what she gave up to get it. Rachel Neville, in…

  • A Twist Of Fate

    A novel without conflict is like a hot fudge sundae without the fudge. A Twist of Fate lacks any real conflict, and it reminded me of unadorned vanilla ice cream – pleasant, perhaps even sweet, but fundamentally uninteresting. While lost in a snowstorm, Lord David Winterbrook comes across a woman whose gig slipped into a…

  • The Reluctant Rogue

    Sebastian Carr, Viscount Langley, is a wastrel and a gambler who cares for little besides himself. As The Reluctant Rogue opens, Sebastian has just been informed by his father that if he doesn’t marry a suitable young woman by his twenty-fifth birthday (a mere two months away!) he will be cut off without a shilling….

  • Three Wishes for Miss Winthrop

    I think I’ve found something new in Shirley Kennedy: a guilty-pleasure Regency author. Three Wishes for Miss Winthrop is like Pride and Prejudice meets The Young and the Restless. One minute everyone is behaving in normal, Regency-like ways, and the next minute raging hormones are circling like a swarm of bees. I’ve never seen anything…

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