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REVIEW of The Swan King by Nina Clare
Elsa is a beautiful and unusual girl in nineteenth century Bavaria. She has the mysterious gift of being able to talk to animals, a gift that could prove valuable to cruel Count Wuelfen as he builds his stable of racehorses. When Elsa’s father disappears on a business trip, her greedy stepmother arranges for her to…
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REVIEW of The King’s Mercy by Lori Benton
Following the Jacobite defeat at Culloden, a tall Scotsman named Alex MacKinnon is given the merciful sentence of indentured servitude in the New World. Bound to Edmund Carey, a plantation owner, he learns the trade of blacksmith, nursing a bitterness against both God and his circumstances. Even the itinerant preacher, Reverend Pauling, can’t convince the…
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REVIEW of Temptation’s Darling by Johanna Lindsey
Vanessa Blackburn has grown up in Scotland with her father, estranged from her mother and separated from her twin sisters. When she comes of age, she must return to England to have her “season,” and hopefully find a husband who doesn’t mind her independent spirit. Riding disguised as a gentleman, she falls into company with…
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REVIEW of The Work of Art: A Regency Romance by Mimi Matthews
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REVIEW of Far Side of the Sea by Kate Breslin
Relegated to a desk job after losing his hand, Colin Mabry spends his days decoding messages sent by carrier pigeon. Strangely enough, one of the messages appears to be for him, a call for help to save Jewel Reyer, a young Frenchwoman who nursed him to health on the front and almost became his sweetheart. Determined to…
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REVIEW of Fearless (Age of Conquest #2) by Tamara Leigh
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REVIEW of The Number of Love by Roseanna M. White (Codebreakers #1)
World War I is in full swing, and deep in the heart of London the codebreakers in Room 40 are responsible for deciphering German telegrams to preserve the Allied cause. Margot de Wilde, a young Belgian woman not yet eighteen, is an anomaly in the all-male environment. Her mathematical mind makes her capable of far…
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REVIEW of Alec Halsey Mysteries (#1-3) by Lucinda Brant
DEADLY ENGAGEMENT (Alec Halsey Mystery #1) When Alec Halsey returns home from his diplomatic adventures, he discovers that the woman he hoped to marry is now engaged to his scornful brother, the Earl of Delvin. Even stranger deeds are afoot, however, when murder most foul attends a house party of the most glittering elites in…
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REVIEW of The Noble Guardian (The Bow Street Runners #3) by Michelle Griep
Abby Gilbert is finally leaving her hateful stepmother, cruel stepsisters, and henpecked father to marry the man of her dreams. Unfortunately, she must travel across England to get to his manor house, and with bad weather, bad luck, and highwaymen on the horizon, it’s anyone’s guess if she’ll make it to her own wedding in…
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REVIEW of The Lady and the Highwayman by Sarah M. Eden
Miss Elizabeth Black runs a proper school for middle class Victorian girls and writes proper novels approved by the proper sort in society. But what nobody knows is that she also moonlights as a penny dreadful author under the pseudonym Mr. King, writing breathtakingly melodramtic serials full of adventure and romance. Fletcher Walker used to…
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