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REVIEW of Frances Sets the Fashion (Lord Dere’s Dependents #4) by Christina Dudley

Frances Barstow has been biding her time, increasing her social cachet with Mrs. Markham Dere by waiting upon the tyrannical lady’s every whim. And now, at the age of twenty, it is Frances’s time to shine. Mrs. Dere is determined to bring Frances “out” at the same time as her erstwhile rival’s daughter and make…

March 22, 2026
REVIEW of The Bestowed Bride (Lord Dere’s Dependents #3) by Christina Dudley

The premise of this book is a fun one: Mrs. Sebastian Barstow’s husband was wounded in a naval battle and subsequently died, but in his final letter, Sebastian asked his best friend to take care of his widow…and marry her if the opportunity presents itself….

July 25, 2025
REVIEW of Mrs. Merritt’s Remorse (Lord Dere’s Dependents #2 by Christina Dudley

The Barstow family returns in the second installment of Lord Dere’s Dependents. Now two years into the future, this book features the second daughter Jane, repentant widow of Roger Merritt, who keeps to the family cottage in guilt and shame for her foolish past. But when a new curate and his sister arrive in the…

March 8, 2025
REVIEW of Miss Vincent’s Vow (Women of Weymouth #1) by Rachel Knowles

Left in penury at her father’s death, Cassandra Vincent places an advertisement in the newspaper at Weymouth offering her services as a companion. Jethro Hunt answers the advertisement, offering a different sort of companionship than she had in mind: matrimony. Trusting in Jethro’s reputation as an honest, god-fearing man, Cassandra resolves to enter into matrimony…

December 28, 2024
REVIEW of A Thieving at Carlton House (Of Cloaks and Daggers #1) by Erica Vetsch

When Sir Bertrand Thorndike is promoted within the ranks of His Majesty’s secret agent spy service (not the real title, but you get the idea), he needs to change his persona as a hard-drinking dilettante to an upstanding member of society. His mentor, Marcus Haverly, recommends that Bertie serve on the board of a new…

December 28, 2024
REVIEW of By His Grace and Favor (Lord Dere’s Dependents #1) by Christina Dudley

When the motley crew of Barstows end up in the same coach as the handsome tutor, a romance of hugely humorous proportions begins….

November 29, 2024
REVIEW of An Amiable Foe by Jennie Goutet (Castles and Courtship)

When Peregrine Osborne inherits Brindale Castle in Kent, he doesn’t realize there’s a lady that comes with it. Ever since her parents’ death, Marianne Edgewood has been left on the estate with only a few servants. But since her uncle gambled the place away to Perry Osborne’s uncle, it’s only a matter of time before…

August 25, 2024
REVIEW of The Weaver Takes a Wife by Sherri Cobb South (Weaver #1)

Ethan Brundy is a self-made man, rising to great wealth with his mill. He sets his sights on the aristocratic Lady Helen Radney as the woman of his dreams, and coerced by her father, Lady Helen marries Mr. Brundy in what she thinks is a marriage of convenience. The trouble is, Mr. Brundy is quite…

June 16, 2024
REVIEW of A Capital Arrangement (The Ellsworth Assortment #6) by Christina Dudley

Beatrice is the youngest of the Ellsworth Assortment, and her family fears she will never find love. They send her to the seaside with Tyrone and Aggie, and in a frightening bathing machine accident, she almost drowns until she is pulled from the briny waves by engineer John Clayton….

June 16, 2024
REVIEW of A Scholarly Pursuit (The Ellsworth Assortment #4) by Christina Dudley

Tyrone Ellsworth is too lazy to bestir himself in courtship–or at least, that’s what his sister’s bosom friend Agatha Weeks thinks about him. Little does she know that Tyrone has been VERY BUSY ghostwriting letters for socially awkward bachelors to present to their ladyloves….

September 17, 2023

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