Silk trilogy
The romance genre is a funny thing. It is the only genre that I know of whereby, of the three narrative components (plot, setting, and character), reader expectations limit and predicate two: Plot and character. The plot limitation is, of course, the Happily-Ever-After. But the character limitation ...
Silk and Shadows is one of the books in Mary Jo Putney's Silk trilogy. These books are set in London during the early Victorian era, a time that is not often used in a romance novel.
One reason I love Mary Jo Putney is that her heroes, Reggie in The Rake, Michael in Shattered Rainbows and Stephen ...