A Stranger at Fellsworth, by Sarah E. Ladd

Annabelle Thorley has been left an orphan in London and now her alcoholic, abusive brother wants to marry her off … More

REVIEW of Mr. Rochester, by Sarah Shoemaker

I typically don’t enjoy retellings of classic stories unless they have some remarkable twist to them. (For example, I yawned … More

This book tells a little-seen side of the Revolutionary War, the fate of the frontier families in the wilds of … More

Corinne deCoventry, a young widow from Berkeley Square, discovers that her pearls have gone missing at a masquerade ball. And … More

The premise of this book was appealing to me, and I found the book itself to be executed moderately successfully. … More

Miss Delacourt Has Her Day is a sequel to Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind, but it felt almost like Part … More

Two Empresses was a strange conflation of two lives, one which seemed to be a string of historical events with … More

This book tells the story of Jane Bell, a young woman in 1820 England who was born to privilege but … More

I have only read the first several books in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, so it was quite a … More

When the aedile Tiberius Manlius Faustus unearths a set of old bones at a construction site, the informer Flavia Albia … More