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REVIEW of The Lost Heiress (Ladies of the Manor, #1), by Roseanna M. White
Brook Eden grew up in Monaco as a princess in a palace, all the world thinking she was the illegitimate granddaughter of Prince Albert. But when her actress mother dies she reveals the truth–she had rescued Brook as an infant from an overturned carriage in England and raised her as her own. The heir to…
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REVIEW of Behind the Scenes, by Jen Turano
All Permilia Griswold wants is to help manage her father’s mining business. Unfortunately, he is convinced that she would be happier learning to become a lady and has provided her with a stepmother to achieve just that experience. Permilia’s performance in society is a sore disappointment to her stepmother, however. Her awkward ways and complete…
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REVIEW of The Innkeeper’s Daughter (The Bow Street Runners #2) by Michelle Griep
Alexander Moore is going deep undercover. His assignment? To lodge at the Blue Hedge Inn in Dover, engage himself to a viscount’s daughter, and apprehend a traitor to the Crown. The one difficulty is that it isn’t the viscount’s daughter who’s caught his eye, but the innkeeper’s daughter instead. Ever since her father’s death and…
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REVIEW of The Weaver’s Daughter, by Sarah E. Ladd
No one thought Henry Stockton would return from the war alive, and when the young heir to Stockton’s cloth mill comes back to the village, not everyone is happy about it. Things have changed in the three years he’s been away. There’s a growing feud between the mill owners and the weavers–who are convinced that…
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REVIEW of The Rise and Fall of Jane, by Corrie Garrett
Jane Agosto didn’t have the happiest upbringing. Abandoned by her mother, neglected by her aunt, she entered the foster system at age six and was always a step away from “falling through the cracks.” After school, she takes up work as a nanny watching an endearing eight-year-old named Adele. But when the girl’s absentee father,…
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REVIEW of The English Wife, by Lauren Willig
The place is New York, the time is just before the turn of the 19th century, and the crime is the murder of Society favorite Bayard van Duyvil and disappearance of his wife Annabelle. When Bay brought Annabelle over from England five years ago, they seemed to have a fairy tale romance, but now ugly…
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REVIEW of The Lost Season of Love and Snow, by Jennifer Laam
The Lost Season of Love and Snow tells the story of the Natalya, the wife of Russia’s most famous poet Alexander Pushkin. Courted by Pushkin at the young age of sixteen, the beautiful Natalya falls head over heels for him and becomes Madame Pushkina. Like most writers, Alexander struggles to make ends meet, and even…
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REVIEW of The Lacemaker, by Laura Frantz
When Elizabeth Lawson’s father, Lord Stirling, flees his position in Williamsburg, she is left behind with a ransacked home, no friends, and a faithless fiance who wants nothing more than to distance himself from the unpopular Tories. Her fiance’s cousin, Noble Rynallt, is made of truer stuff, however, and he gives Elizabeth shelter until she…
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REVIEW of Katharina: Deliverance (Katharina #1), by Margaret Skea
In a story especially apropos for the year of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Katharina: Deliverance follows the story of Katharina Von Bora, from her entrance into a convent at the age of five to her marriage to Martin Luther at the age of twenty-six. When her father remarries, the unwanted child is sent…
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REVIEW of The Ladies of Ivy Cottage, by Julie Klassen (Tales from Ivy Hill #2)
The second book in Julie Klassen’s Ivy Hill series came out earlier this month, and I was happy to use it to inaugurate my new Kindle that David bought me for Christmas! The Ladies of Ivy Cottage picks up the stories of Mercy Grove, Jane Bell, and Rachel Ashford from the previous book. Mercy continues…
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