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REVIEW of The Princess Search: A Retelling of the Ugly Duckling (The Four Kingdoms #5), by Melanie Cellier

When Princess Celine asks Evie to come with the royals of Lanover on a tour of their kingdom, the young seamstress can hardly refuse. But even though she feels confident in her skills as royal dressmaker, Evie is hardly confident about her ability to remain calm as she revisits the places from her nomadic and…
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REVIEW of Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice, by Heidi Ashworth

Mr. Colin Lloyd-Jones has sworn off the London season and ladies in general. After crying off from his unfaithful fiancee, he is in dire need of avoiding any fresh heartbreak. But when the breathtakingly beautiful Elizabeth Armistead knocks on his door after a carriage mishap, his best laid plans come to naught. With the assistance…
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REVIEW of Lord Haversham Takes Command (Miss Delacourt #4), by Heidi Ashworth

Lord Haversham has been in love with Mira Crenshaw for years, but when he returns from the continent, there are three insurmountable obstacles to their union. First, Lord Haversham is a secret agent sworn to protect the young Queen Victoria–how can he even think of courting Mira when the queen’s life is in danger? Second,…
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REVIEW of Chasing the Wind (California Rising #3), by Paula Scott

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REVIEW of Mary B.: An Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice, by Katherine J. Chen

The premise of this book was interesting: to tell the story of the forgotten middle sister Mary from Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice. The first part of the book was engaging–Mary’s ill-fated interest in Mr. Collins and misapprehension of his character was well-portrayed. But once the events in the final chapter of the original…
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REVIEW of The Scandal in Honor (Lord Trevelin Mystery #2), by Heidi Ashworth

Two years after the fateful duel that left Lord Trevelin’s face permanently scarred, he has finally found a woman who respects and loves him. But Jane Leavitt’s father is still waffling on setting a date for the wedding. Can Trev be trusted to create no more scandals and to stop meddling in inappropriate things like…
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REVIEW of A Gift for Lord Trevelin, by Heidi Ashworth

Rumors abound about the disreputable Lord Trevelin whose scarred mouth is perpetually twisted into a sneer. When Sophie Lundell glimpses Lord Trevelin at her debut ball, she determines to follow him out onto the veranda and hear from his own lips just why society is determined to shun him and just how he got that…
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REVIEW of The Orphan’s Wish (Hagenheim #8), by Melanie Dickerson

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REVIEW of Sky in the Deep, by Adrienne Young

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REVIEW of Far Side of the Sea (California Rising #2), by Paula Scott

Maria Vasquez has always heard voices in her head–dark voices telling her that she is a curse to everyone around her, sinister voices telling her that she is nothing but a bringer of death. At the end of the first California Rising book, Maria was abducted by a rich landowner obsessed with her beauty. In…