Maria Rose was just raving about this series. This is the first book! Here’s the blurb:

MAY 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness.

MAY 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a half day off, only to be discovered that night strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one hundred and fifty years before Mallory is strangled in the same spot.

When Mallory wakes up in Catriona’s body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to her new reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker in Victorian Scotland. She soon discovers that her boss, Dr. Gray, also moonlights as a medical examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope is that catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before it’s too late.

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We haven’t reviewed this one but Burrowes has scads of DIKs at AAR. Here’s the blurb:

Robert Rothmere is hiding a past no duke should have endured, but he’s not hiding it well enough. Sooner or later, his enemies will learn that he spent years locked away at a private asylum. To get their hands on his wealth, they’ll try to send him right back to his worst nightmares. If Robert is to foil their schemes, he needs to marry a perfectly proper, blessedly boring, deadly dull duchess, immediately — and he knows exactly which quietly delightful lady he’d love to entrust with that role.

Lady Constance Wentworth has cultivated a reputation for utter forgettability. She never speaks out of turn (in public), never has a daring thought (that she admits aloud), and never comes close to courting scandal . . . as far as anybody knows. Her path crossed Robert’s years ago, though, and she’s never forgotten the extraordinary lengths he traveled to keep her safe when she hadn’t a friend in the world. She longs to be his demure duchess . . . but little does he know that to marry her would be utter madness.

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This is a B+ for us. Our reviewer wrote:

The straight-laced John Cavendish knows that his first command, on board the Meteor, is a suicide mission. With a small ship and a crew of outcasts, he’s expected to stop the slave trade in Algiers – for the Ottoman Empire has been taking British citizens as slaves. The on board presence of Lieutenant Alfie Donwell also disturbs him, although John can’t quite explain why. Perhaps it’s because he verges on insubordination. They do become friends, and their friendship is tempered by a dangerous rescue and by fierce battles at sea. Each man, in turn, must save the other and help nurse the other back to health. Alfie grows more attracted to John with every day, knowing this is risky because the British Navy hangs men for sodomy.

Everything changes when the HMS Britannia comes on the scene, bearing its notorious captain, Charles Farrant, Lord Lisburn. Farrant, Alfie’s first captain, dares to be flamboyant – and he can get away with it because of his position. Alfie tells John about his unrequited feelings for his old captain, hoping for understanding – reading the feelings that John doesn’t understand yet. But it’s too soon, and John reacts with horror. After that, Alfie realizes he has no choice but to transfer back to the HMS Britannia. Duty separates both men for a long time. Alfie acts on his old feelings for Farrant, finding respite in his arms. Meanwhile, John finds himself betrayed by the British Navy for doing his duties too well for political expediency in Algiers. This gives him time to ponder what happened, and he starts to doubt his initial reaction, starts to ponder his beliefs.

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