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REVIEW of Courting the Country Miss, by Donna Hatch
The story opens with Leticia (“Tish”) heartbroken. Richard, the man she had always assumed she would marry, is now married to another, and it all his brother Tristan’s fault. Fortunately, she has made friends with Richard’s new wife Elizabeth and the two of them are planning to start a charity school for poor girls to…
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REVIEW of 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 to a rich, but deplorable, friend to keep his own affairs afloat. Having no one else to turn to, Annabelle asks Owen Locke, a kind gamekeeper who earlier protected her from a pickpocket, to help…
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REVIEW of A Moonbow Night, by Laura Frantz
This book tells a little-seen side of the Revolutionary War, the fate of the frontier families in the wilds of Kentucke surrounded by hostile Indians goaded onto the warpath by King George. At the remote Moonbow Inn, Temperance Tucker and her family work to feed travelers and stay clear of trouble. They have had enough…
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REVIEW of Murder Will Speak (The Berkeley Brigade #1), by Joan Smith
Corinne deCoventry, a young widow from Berkeley Square, discovers that her pearls have gone missing at a masquerade ball. And even worse, they’re the pearls she was supposed to return to her late husband’s family in the next few days, the pearls worth ten thousand pounds! With the help of her cousin Coffen Pattle and…
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REVIEW of Longbourn, by Jo Baker
The premise of this book was appealing to me, and I found the book itself to be executed moderately successfully. In Longbourn, Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is retold through the eyes of the servants in the Bennet household. Sarah, the housemaid who has been serving there ever since she was orphaned at the…
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REVIEW of Miss Delacourt Has Her Day, by Heidi Ashworth
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REVIEW of Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind, by Heidi Ashworth
Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind is a delightful romantic farce in the glorious tradition of Georgette Heyer. When Ginny Delacourt’s great-aunt sends her on a mission to inspect some rosebushes and orders Sir Anthony Crenshaw to be Ginny’s escort, some pesky highwaymen, a stolen carriage, and a two-week quarantine (for fear of chicken pox) at a…
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REVIEW of The Widow of Larkspur Inn, by Lawana Blackwell
This is a perplexing review to write. The Widow of Larkspur Inn contained some things I really dislike in historical fiction, but all in all, I still enjoyed the book–no doubt a testament to Lawana Blackwell’s excellent storytelling. Three weeks after Julia Hollis’ husband has died, she discovers that his hitherto unknown gambling addiction has left…
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REVIEW of The Curiosity Keeper, by Sarah E. Ladd
This book was a decent Regency romance although not particularly memorable. I received it for my birthday a year ago, and as items sometimes do in our house, it promptly disappeared. One of the kids found it buried under my dresser last week, and I was excited to have something to read during Christmas break…
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RELEASE of Fool Me Twice, by Philippa Jane Keyworth
My publishing company, Madison Street Publishing, has a new Georgian romance out today by Philippa Jane Keyworth. One of my favorite book covers so far. I hope you’ll take a look at it! In the gaming hells of eighteenth century London, orphan Caro Worth is leading a double life. By day she plays a proper…
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