Tag: Gilded Age

  • REVIEW of Diamond in the Rough (American Heiresses #2) by Jen Turano

    REVIEW of Diamond in the Rough (American Heiresses #2) by Jen Turano

    Poppy Garrison is more used to working on a horse farm than mingling with New York’s elite four hundred. When she accepts her estranged grandmother’s offer to give her a “season,” she soon discovers that her klutzy ways and outspoken manner make her stand out–and not in a good way. A visiting Englishman, Reginald Blackburn,…

  • REVIEW of Flights of Fancy (American Heiresses #1) by Jen Turano

    REVIEW of Flights of Fancy (American Heiresses #1) by Jen Turano

    Isadora Delafield is one of the richest heiresses in New York, but her mother will stop at nothing less than a title for her daughter. To avoid the attentions of a lecherous duke twice her age, Izzie flees to the farm country of Pennsylvania and applies for a position as housekeeper on Ian McKenzie’s old…

  • REVIEW of Love Finds You in Mackinac Island, Michigan (Legacy of Love #1) by Melanie Dobson

    REVIEW of Love Finds You in Mackinac Island, Michigan (Legacy of Love #1) by Melanie Dobson

    Elena Bissette needs to marry well this summer. Her father’s Chicago factory is about to be foreclosed on, and this could possibly be their last summer spent in high society at Mackinac Island, Michigan. When rumor has it that wealthy Chester Darrington will be making an appearance at the Grand Hotel, Elena’s mother relentlessly schemes…

  • REVIEW of Behind the Scenes, by Jen Turano

    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…

  • REVIEW of The English Wife, by Lauren Willig

    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…