#Regencyromance

Blog Tour and Book Review: First Earl I See Tonight by Anna Bennett

Oct 31, 2018
3 min

Blog Tour and Book Review: First Earl I See Tonight by Anna Bennett

Miss Fiona Hartley is desperate. She has two weeks to come up with an enormous sum of money for a blackmailer or see her beloved sister ruined forever. Frightened to burden her sick father, there seems only one option open to her - marry in haste and to an obliging husband who will let her use a portion of her enormous dowry for her own purposes. The only man she knows who ticks all the boxes is Gray, Earl of Ravenport, well known to be strapped for cash with an enormous, cru

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Book Review: It Only Takes A Kiss by Wilma Counts

Caitlyn Lynch

Oct 16, 2018
2 min

Book Review: It Only Takes A Kiss by Wilma Counts

There are some pretty deep themes underlying this excellently written Regency romance; the hero is a soldier returned from war, and though he’s the wealthy third son of a duke with the world at his feet, some fairly major PTSD has him lost and floundering, like so many who came back both in those days and the current time, he finds it difficult to fit back into the world he once knew. Given a ‘mission’ to look over discrepancies in the accounts of a Cornish estate he inherite

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Book Review: Once Upon A Duke by Erica Ridley

Caitlyn Lynch

Oct 9, 2018
1 min

Book Review: Once Upon A Duke by Erica Ridley

First in Erica Ridley’s 12 Dukes of Christmas series (no, there aren’t 12 books - only 3, I believe) Once Upon A Duke introduces the village of Cressmouth, where a benevolent (but slightly bonkers) landowner has transformed a dying community into the embodiment of Christmas, year-round. Into this charming, if twee, Christmas paradise erupts Benjamin, Duke of Silkwood, a man who (actually with justification) hates Christmas and everything it stands for. All he wants is a famil

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Book Review: The Makings of a Lady by Catherine Tinley

Caitlyn Lynch

Oct 1, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Makings of a Lady by Catherine Tinley

As a Regency romance, this one has an air of a coming-of-age story about it. Lady Olivia reminds me a good deal of Jane Austen’s Emma; young, beautiful, wealthy and maybe more than a little bit spoiled, she’s never been denied anything in the whole of her life… until Jem Ford. A friend of her brother’s brought to their home to recuperate after taking a serious injury at Waterloo, eighteen-year-old Olivia fell in love for the first time in her life. And promptly had her heart

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Book Review: His Rags-To-Riches Contessa by Marguerite Kaye

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 29, 2018
2 min

Book Review: His Rags-To-Riches Contessa by Marguerite Kaye

Targeting the wrong mark means card sharp Becky has to leave London for good. Offered a chance to make enough money to retire on, she takes one last job - in Venice, helping Conte Luca del Pietro get justice for his murdered father. Becky isn’t like any other woman Luca has ever met. A woman from London’s worst rookeries, Becky has pulled herself up by the literal bootstraps until she can fit into any level of society she pleases - even the very highest. Posing as his cousin,

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Book Review: Once A Scoundrel by Mary Jo Putney

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 26, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Once A Scoundrel by Mary Jo Putney

This is one of those books I absolutely loved despite it not being remotely representative of the title. There is nothing whatsoever scoundrelly about the hero in this story; on the contrary, he may be the nicest, most gentlemanly hero I’ve ever read in a historical romance. With a title like Once A Scoundrel, I was fully anticipating a reformed-rake story, but Gabriel Hawkins doesn’t have even a touch of the rake about him. Indeed, when confronted by the almost-naked heroine

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Book Review: How The Earl Entices by Anna Harrington

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 14, 2018
2 min

Book Review: How The Earl Entices by Anna Harrington

Grace Alden is hiding. Ten years ago, she fled the danger to herself and her unborn child, and since then she’s remained sequestered in a tiny fishing village, praying her enemy won’t find her. Instead, it’s someone else from her past who stumbles into her cottage in the middle of a storm; Ross Carlisle, the Earl of Spalding. He doesn’t recognise her, but he does need her help to unmask a traitor. Although they get off to a terrible start, Grace agrees to help Ross in exchang

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Book Review: Lord of Vice by Erica Ridley

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 1, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Lord of Vice by Erica Ridley

I think Bryony Grenville might just be my favourite Regency heroine ever, and that’s seriously saying something. She’s amazing, though, a violin prodigy who plays only to please those she loves, a mathematical and business genius who has no choice but to operate under a pseudonym. She sneaks into the hero’s office and when he catches her, she totally disarms him with her unique manner and when he is (rightfully) outraged and called her a couple of unflattering names, she is q

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Book Review: Falling From His Grace by Kristin Vayden

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 1, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Falling From His Grace by Kristin Vayden

Liliah Durary is the beautiful, wealthy daughter of a duke. She could marry anyone she wanted - except her father has autocratically decreed she marry her best friend, Meyer. Which might not be so bad, except that Meyer is in love with her other best friend, Rebecca. Meyer’s father has cut some sort of secret deal with the duke, and all three friends are set to have their lives ruined as a result. Before Liliah marries, though, she wants some adventure. Sneaking into an exclu

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Book Review: Brave New Earl by Jane Ashford

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 9, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Brave New Earl by Jane Ashford

Brave New Earl is the first in a new series by Jane Ashford which seems set to follow a group of gentlemen who have all experienced great loss, as they find their happily ever after. Benjamin, Earl of Furness, is still grieving his wife even five years after her death, so much so that he can hardly bear to look at his son Geoffrey since he sees too much of Alice in the boy. Consequently, Geoffrey is allowed to run somewhat wild and barely knows his father. Miss Jean Somerset

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Book Review: More Or Less A Countess by Anna Bradley

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 9, 2018
2 min

Book Review: More Or Less A Countess by Anna Bradley

This is the second book I’ve read in the Somerset Sisters (after More Or Less A Marchioness) and I really, really liked Violet, the heroine. Violet is a bluestocking, and proud of it. She refuses to simper or make mindless conversation, and consequently most of the shallow young men of London have shunned her. Not that she cares; she’s far too busy writing her book, a guide for young ladies coming to London. Hilariously, she wants to include chapters on history and is determi

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Book Review: The Vixen by Christi Caldwell

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 7, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Vixen by Christi Caldwell

Ophelia Killoran is the vixen of the title, a woman unlike any other in all of London. Daughter of Mac Diggory, once the feared crime king of London’s seedy underworld, she and her siblings have built a new life for themselves as proprietors of a prosperous gaming hell. Now her brother wants her to marry a lord to cement their place in polite society. Once upon a time, Connor Steele was one of Diggory’s street kids, and a girl with white hair saved his life. He repaid the deb

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Book Review: The Duke I Tempted by Scarlett Peckham

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 1, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Duke I Tempted by Scarlett Peckham

This is a historical romance with a major twist; the hero is a tortured type who finds emotional and physical release in subjugation. Hence, his membership at an exclusive club where he is regularly whipped. Being a duke, he must marry, however, and as soon as possible in order to get an heir and secure the line of succession away from a cousin who will certainly not see to it that his younger sister Constance is taken care of. Intending to offer for the first young woman who

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Book Review: What Ales The Earl by Sally MacKenzie

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 31, 2018
2 min

Book Review: What Ales The Earl by Sally MacKenzie

Harry Graham has to choose a bride, and quickly. He was never supposed to be Earl, but when his brother died in his mid-thirties without siring a son, Harry inherited both the title and the responsibility to ensure the succession. The only problem is that all the ‘suitable’ young ladies he’s meeting in London are utterly uninteresting. None of them compare to Pen, his childhood sweetheart. Encountering Pen again when helping out a friend is quite a surprise… but not as much s

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Book Review: The Singular Mr. Sinclair by Mia Marlowe

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 18, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Singular Mr. Sinclair by Mia Marlowe

Lady Caroline Lovell is beautiful, wealthy and the only daughter of an Earl. She’s also in her third Season and with no betrothal on the horizon, her parents are beginning to despair of marrying her off. The thing is that Caroline doesn’t want to be married off. She dreams of adventure, of travel, of being in control of her own destiny, and if she can just stay unmarried until she is twenty-one, she’ll be able to do whatever she wishes. The return of her eldest brother from t

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Book Review: A Lady's Guide To Passion and Property by Kate Moore

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 6, 2018
2 min

Book Review: A Lady's Guide To Passion and Property by Kate Moore

A young lady who has inherited property may suddenly find herself with a surfeit of suitors… Lucy Holbrook has just inherited the Tooth And Nail, her father’s inn, along with her father’s blind friend Adam, a gentle but simple man who depends on her to survive. Captain Harry Clare’s arrival and offer of assistance is most timely, especially as all her neighbours seem to have lost their wits and begun proposing to her on the flimsiest of pretexts. There is a fascinating myster

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Book Review: An Affair With A Spare by Shana Galen

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 6, 2018
2 min

Book Review: An Affair With A Spare by Shana Galen

As the eighth child of an earl, Rafe Beaumont is most definitely a spare. Blessed with extraordinary good looks, even when he joined the army he ended up using his unique abilities to seduce information from Frenchwomen to serve his country. Now the war is over, and Rafe is at a loose end. Weary of being literally chased around London society by eager women, when instructed by his commanding officer to find out if a young Frenchwoman is a spy, he jumps at the opportunity. The

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Book Review: The Risk Of Rogues by Sabrina Jeffries

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 3, 2018
1 min

Book Review: The Risk Of Rogues by Sabrina Jeffries

The second son of a marquis without a particular inheritance of his own, Hart didn’t have much to offer Anne when she was sixteen. Her father’s refusal, and his own family’s disapproval, of the match drove him away and into the army, spending six years in India before becoming a spy for England. Now he’s back, and Anne is still unmarried, still very much an original, and still the only woman he’s ever loved. Winning her won’t be easy, but he’s not about to walk away from her

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Book Review: One For The Rogue by Manda Collins

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 29, 2018
2 min

Book Review: One For The Rogue by Manda Collins

Fourth in Manda Collins’ Studies In Scandal series about a quartet of brilliant, scholarly young women bequeathed an estate and a series of mysteries, One For The Rogue seems very mis-named, because honestly there was nothing roguish about Lord Cameron Lisle at all. Quite the opposite. He was charming, respectful, and not in the slightest bit rakish. Yes, he appreciated Gemma’s beauty, but he was just as appreciative of her intelligence and determination, and always did his b

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Book Review: Lord Of Secrets by Erica Ridley

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 18, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Lord Of Secrets by Erica Ridley

This is the fifth book in the series about the Grenville siblings (and friends). The three sisters of the family are unconventional at best, and their brother Heath, in efforts to keep the family name respectable, has somehow managed to become the premier secret-keeper and investigator for Ton insider gossip. When a new caricaturist with access to the highest of inner circles sets the upper class aflutter, Heath is determined to unmask the owner of the wickedly cruel pen. It’

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