There are quite a few plot strands running through Married for His Convenience; in fact I’m not sure there aren’t a few too many. As well as the convenient marriage promised by the title, we have the subplot of the hero’s search for his missing son, the parallel plotline of the heroine searching for her…
One thing you can say about Harlequin Historicals – What You See is generally What You Get when it comes to titles, and The Governess’s Secret Baby is pretty much exactly what it says on the cover. This is the final book of The Governess Tales, a set of four books written by four different…
His Christmas Countess is book two in Louise Allen’s most recent series, The Four Disgraces, in which the heroes are a group of young men who earned that sobriquet as a result of their daring exploits at school and university. For some reason, I read the first, third and fourth books when they came out…
In Her Enemy at the Altar, Virginia Heath impressed me with her ability to craft an enjoyable story, create complex, likeable characters and to deliver a romance that is sensual and emotionally nuanced. In her latest book, The Discerning Gentleman’s Guide, she displays those talents once again while also putting a slightly different spin on…
An Uncommon Duke makes use of one of my favourite romance tropes – the married, but estranged couple who have to overcome their differences and past hurts in order find their way back to each other. New-to-me author Laurie Benson does a good job in the first part of this book of setting up the…
The Reluctant Viscount is Lara Temple’s second book for Harlequin Historical, and while it is a little uneven in terms of the pacing and plotting, I enjoyed it sufficiently to want to read more of her work. The central relationship is very well written and the verbal exchanges between the hero and heroine are often…
This second book in Julia Justiss’ Hadley’s Hellions series is easily read as a standalone, although characters from the previous book – Forbidden Nights with the Viscount – do have parts to play in this one. Stolen Encounters with the Duchess is a very readable cross-class romance which plays out against the solidly crafted backdrop…
This is the second book from new-to-me author Virginia Heath, whose début for Mills and Boon – That Despicable Rogue – was published in May this year, and which I somehow missed but definitely intend to go back to. Her Enemy at the Altar is a simple but well-written enemies-to-lovers story inspired, she says in…
Crispin de Feaux, Marquess of Avenmore is one of the four Lords of Disgrace, who were introduced to readers in His Housekeeper’s Christmas Wish; although by the sound of it, he’s probably the least deserving of being called a ‘disgrace’ of all of them. I’m also not sure what his “many sins” are, as he’s…
I’ve enjoyed books by Louise Allen since way back, when I first read The Earl’s Intended Wife, which was partly set on Malta! She has a knack for inserting the unusual into the rather well-trodden paths of the regency romance genre, and she does not disappoint in The Unexpected Marriage of Gabriel Stone, the fourth…
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