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Book Review: The Duke of Lies by Darcy Burke

Jun 13, 2018
1 min

Book Review: The Duke of Lies by Darcy Burke

Many wives would be delighted when the husband who has been missing for six years returns. Verity, Duchess of Blackburn, is most definitely not one of them. Rufus was cruel and violent. His return is her worst nightmare. Except… he's changed. So much so, she's wondering if he's actually the man she married at all. Kit only wants what he was promised. Impersonating a duke could get him hanged… yet even when the opportunity presents, he can't make himself abandon Verity and her

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Book Review: Only Seduction Will Do by Jenna Jaxon

Jun 6, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Only Seduction Will Do by Jenna Jaxon

This is a Regency with a really intriguing storyline. Though it’s (I think) third in the series, I was fine reading it as a standalone. There wasn’t really anything I felt confused about even though couples from previous books did make appearances, most notably Jack’s sister Katarina and her husband. Alethea has been hopelessly and irrevocably compromised. A tryst in a vulnerable moment has left her pregnant with the child of a married man. Forced to confess to her cousin, sh

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Book Review: A Marriage Of Convenience by Janet Woods

Jun 3, 2018
1 min

Book Review: A Marriage Of Convenience by Janet Woods

I found this an intensely frustrating read. At times it was wonderful; Grace and Dominic’s first interactions were both charming and hilarious, with Grace’s sass endearing herself to both Dominic and the reader. The reasons for the two of them to have a marriage of convenience were both sensible and pressing. However, there were also several occasions when the plot became horribly muddled. My suspension of belief failed when the reader was asked to believe that Grace, a well-

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Book Review: It's All About The Duke by Amelia Grey

May 30, 2018
2 min

Book Review: It's All About The Duke by Amelia Grey

This is the third book in Amelia Grey’s Rakes of St. James trilogy. The Duke of Rathburne is the third and last of the notorious bachelors who, years ago, played a prank on twelve young debutantes which led to the girls being ostracised from society. Being dukes, and male, they never really had to suffer any consequences beyond guilt… and regular evisceration by the pen of Miss Honoria Truth, writer of a scandal sheet with a particular hatred for the three rakes. The very las

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Book Review: A Mistress for Penndrake by Tammy L. Bailey

May 24, 2018
2 min

Book Review: A Mistress for Penndrake by Tammy L. Bailey

When offered the chance to earn back his ancestral home, Penndrake, after his father gambled it away, one would have thought Lord Wesley would grasp it with both hands. After all, all he has to do is marry Miss Kate Holden, the new owner's cousin, and Kate is pretty, smart and intriguing. With Penndrake as her dowry, he couldn't do better. It's an honorable way out of a sticky predicament. If Wesley had been otherwise attached, I could possibly have forgiven him for trying to

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Book Review: A Duke Like No Other by Valerie Bowman

May 6, 2018
2 min

Book Review: A Duke Like No Other by Valerie Bowman

Mark Grimaldi isn’t a duke. He’s not even the direct heir to a duke. He doesn’t want anything to do with his mother’s powerful family, determined to become Home Secretary on his own merits. Only problem is, his superiors want a family man for the position, and they’re suggesting Mark take a wife. Except… he’s already got one. He’ll just need to go and find her. Nicole left England ten years ago for a quiet life in the French countryside, when it became clear her husband’s amb

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Book Review: The Luck Of The Bride by Janna MacGregor

May 1, 2018
3 min

Book Review: The Luck Of The Bride by Janna MacGregor

At the end of this book, I had to look back at the title in puzzlement, because I honestly couldn’t figure out why on earth March Lawson might be considered lucky. Orphaned and left to look after her siblings before she ever gets a season in London, the neglect of the family by their guardian has made it necessary for her to work on the farm as well as scrimp and save every day just to put food on the table. When their old guardian dies and a new one inherits the position, Ma

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Book Review: The Perfect Duchess by Erica Taylor

Apr 18, 2018
1 min

Book Review: The Perfect Duchess by Erica Taylor

The only thing you need to know about this book is that the villain turns out to be gay. Not only that, he turns out to be the villain BECAUSE he is gay. He disposes of one sister and tries to kill off the other (the heroine) because the hero admired THEM and not HIM. I seriously cannot believe this got past an editor. You cannot, in this day and age, have the villain of your story turn out to be a member of a persecuted minority unless you want to get righteously slapped dow

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Book Review: Vanquishing The Viscount by Elizabeth Keysian

Apr 13, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Vanquishing The Viscount by Elizabeth Keysian

Emma d’Ibert, scion of an ancient noble family now fallen on hard times, must reinvent herself as governess Miss Hibbert in order to earn her living. On her way to take up her post, she has an encounter with a gentleman which leaves him concussed and not even knowing his own name. When he recovers himself, Viscount James Tidworth curses the very existence of the interfering woman who caused the delay and cost him his chance at happiness. Encountering her working as a governes

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Book Review: A Lady's Honor by A.S. Fenichel

Apr 9, 2018
2 min

Book Review: A Lady's Honor by A.S. Fenichel

Phoebe Hallsmith willingly spent her eligible years caring for her beloved grandmother instead of looking for a husband. Now firmly on the shelf, she chooses to become useful by seeking employment with the highly reputable Everton Domestic Society, dedicated to placing respectable ladies in positions of usefulness. Assigned to help the grieving husband of a close friend after his wife’s death in childbirth, Phoebe has to fulfil her duties while adhering to the Society’s stric

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Book Review: The Companion's Secret by Susanna Craig

Apr 5, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Companion's Secret by Susanna Craig

Miss Camellia Burke is a poor cousin sent to live with her wealthy aunt and cousin as an (unpaid) companion. That’s about the only thing she has in common with Fanny Price, though, so don’t go thinking this is anything like Mansfield Park. Daughter of an Irish solicitor, disgraced by a long-ago mistake and possessed of a sharp tongue and decided opinions, Cami is a fabulous heroine. Secretly working on a novel expressly designed to get the English to understand the perspectiv

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Book Review: Lord of Temptation by Erica Ridley

Apr 5, 2018
1 min

Book Review: Lord of Temptation by Erica Ridley

Even though both the protagonists are only in their late twenties, this is a second-chance romance. Both eighteen when they first met and fell in love, Lord Hawkridge was talked out of marrying penniless Miss Faith Digby for the good of his failing estate. Now ten years older and wiser, still desperately trying to bring his bankrupt marquesate back into profit, Hawk is startled to run across Faith again. Still unmarried, still the only woman he’s ever loved, she’s now a consi

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Book Review: With Love In Sight by Christina Britton

Mar 28, 2018
2 min

Book Review: With Love In Sight by Christina Britton

What’s a wallflower to do? Imogen is the merely pretty sister in a family of Incomparables. Resigning herself to fading into the background, the naturally shy debutante joins the ranks of the wallflowers, accepting her lot as the unmarriageable sister destined to be a comfort to her parents in their declining years. Hurt by the cruel words of some gossips, Imogen flees into a darkened garden in tears one night and stumbles straight into the arms of Caleb, Marquis of Willbridg

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Book Review: No Earls Allowed by Shana Galen

Mar 7, 2018
1 min

Book Review: No Earls Allowed by Shana Galen

I’m just going to say straight off that I have no idea how the title relates to the book. It’s not a line anyone says, or a vow the heroine has made. The hero is the illegitimate (but acknowledged) son of a marquis, and frankly since the heroine, Lady Juliana, has put herself beyond the bounds of acceptable by leaving home to run a boys’ orphanage anyway, he’s a good match for her. This is a pretty cookie-cutter Regency in a lot of ways, with added plot moppets for colour, an

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Book Review: The Duke of Ice by Darcy Burke

Mar 3, 2018
1 min

Book Review: The Duke of Ice by Darcy Burke

Nicholas Bateman, the Duke of Kilve, is a bit of a drama queen. To be fair, he has lost pretty much everyone he ever cared about, but to be convinced that he, personally, is cursed and the cause of death of everyone who might ever get close to him is, shall we say, a touch self-centred. Fortunately, Lady Violet Pendleton is absolutely not standing for any of his nonsense. Forced by her parents to marry another man (long before Nick inherited his dukedom) and now widowed, she

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Book Review: More Or Less A Marchioness by Anna Bradley

Feb 8, 2018
2 min

Book Review: More Or Less A Marchioness by Anna Bradley

Iris Somerset is the perfect debutante - or so she portrays to the world. Beautiful, wealthy and meek, she’s everything Finn, the Marquis of Huntingdon, thinks he wants in a wife. Until one day she looks him in the eye and tells him they will not suit and she is breaking their engagement. This isn’t just a romance; it’s a story of two people finding out and accepting who they truly are. Iris plays the part of a demure debutante to perfection… right up until the moment she rea

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Book Review: Wallflower Most Wanted by Manda Collins

Feb 1, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Wallflower Most Wanted by Manda Collins

Miss Sophia Hastings is a rare young lady, one with genuine artistic talent. Her art isn’t just flattering portraits or pretty flowers; she paints what she feels, sometimes controversial, always thought-provoking. She has little interest in finding a husband, despite a plethora of suitors, until the day she literally falls off a cliff and lands at the feet of the handsome local vicar. Even then, she might not have taken too much notice, except for the conversation the pair th

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Book Review: A Devil In Scotland by Suzanne Enoch

Jan 31, 2018
2 min

Book Review: A Devil In Scotland by Suzanne Enoch

Ten years ago Callum left Scotland broken-hearted, after the only girl he ever cared about chose to accept his older brother Ian’s marriage proposal. News of Ian’s death, and his own ascension to the title of Lord Geiry, brings him back, convinced Ian’s death was no accident. The only question in his mind is whether or not Rebecca was involved in the murder plot… and therefore whether or not she will die with his other enemies. Discovering that he is an uncle changes Callum’s

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Blog Tour and Book Review for The Madame Catches Her Duke by Christina McKnight

Jan 4, 2018
2 min

Blog Tour and Book Review for The Madame Catches Her Duke by Christina McKnight

Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of the post for your chance to win a $15 Amazon gift card! In The Madame Catches Her Duke, Christina McKnight returns to her brilliant Craven House series about the children of a disgraced marchioness and infamous brothel owner. This time it is the turn of the eldest daughter, Lady Marce Davenport, to find love. Marce has sacrificed more than her siblings will ever know to give them a good life and a chance at happiness. A deal m

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Book Review: The Rogue Is Back In Town by Anna Bennett

Jan 3, 2018
1 min

Book Review: The Rogue Is Back In Town by Anna Bennett

Lord Samuel Travis has gone too far this time. When his brother the Marquess tosses him from the house, there is only one way to get back in his brother's good graces… do exactly as he is told. Given the unpalatable task of evicting an old man from a house his brother owns, Sam didn't reckon with a fiery grand-niece flatly refusing to obey. Getting to know Juliette, Sam realises there is more going on than meets the eye… and he might just be the honorable one out of the two T

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