Tag: Georgian Era

  • REVIEW of Roxton Family Saga by Lucinda Brant

    REVIEW of Roxton Family Saga by Lucinda Brant

    Lucinda Brant’s Roxton Family Saga tells the story of a noble family of the Georgian era. The patriarch of the family, the Duke of Roxton, has an iron will, a razor wit, and an unquenchable devotion to his much younger bride, the French firecracker Antonia. Their offspring and assorted in-laws and cousins make up the…

  • REVIEW of Alec Halsey Mysteries (#1-3) by Lucinda Brant

    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…

  • REVIEW of Salt Hendon Series (#1-2) by Lucinda Brant

    REVIEW of Salt Hendon Series (#1-2) by Lucinda Brant

    SALT BRIDE (Salt Hendon #1) Jane Despard thought the earl had loved her. But when she woke up from the nightmare of betrayal, she found herself alone, destitute, and obliged to rely on the aid of a miserly merchant who wants nothing more than to punish the Earl of Salt-Hendon. Salt thought Jane was the…

  • REVIEW of Midnight Marriage (Roxton Family Saga #1) by Lucinda Brant

    REVIEW of Midnight Marriage (Roxton Family Saga #1) by Lucinda Brant

    At the tender age of twelve, Deborah Cavendish is wakened in the middle of the night, drugged by laudanum, and joined in marriage to a lad only a few years older than herself. Then she is whisked back to her chamber and left to believe that the whole nightmarish episode was nothing more than a…

  • REVIEW of The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau

    REVIEW of The Blue by Nancy Bilyeau

    Genevieve Planché wants nothing more than to be a “history-painter” like Hogarth and Reynolds, but in a century where painting the human form is an immodest occupation for women, her options are few. Her Huegenot grandfather determines to send her away from London to become a porcelain decorator in Derby, but Genevieve bridles at the…