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REVIEW of Bride of Dreams by Jane Aiken Hodge
Amanda Carteret hopes to marry her childhood friend John Purvis, but when the evil Lord Meynel contrives to send John away into the navy, the naive seventeen-year-old is entrapped into marrying Lord Meynel himself. What follows is the saga of Amanda’s life as she endures the abuse of a sadistic elderly husband, grows to womanhood…
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REVIEW of The Adventurers by Jane Aiken Hodge
When a crew of Napoleon’s soldiers pillage young Sophie Von Hugel’s estate outside Leipzig, she escapes by the skin of her teeth, traumatized and unsure where to turn. At a nearby inn, she meets adventurer Charles Vincent over a game of cards, and in short order, they determine to flee to a nearby city. They…
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REVIEW of Emma (BBC Film, 2009)
Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content to live in Highbury, managing the house for her hypochondriacal father. As the foremost lady of village society, she has no need to marry to be a person of consequence. But where others are concerned, she enjoys a bit of matchmaking, and after she predicts that her governess Miss Taylor…
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REVIEW of Runaway Bride by Jane Aiken Hodge
Jennifer Purchas has had the misfortune of her father and both brothers dying during the Napoleonic wars. Her acquistive uncle, Mr. Gurning, has seized control of her inheritance, and to make matters worse, he’s planning to marry her off to Mr. George Ferris, a friend of her late brother whom she’s never even met. Determined…
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REVIEW of The Truth about Miss Ashbourne by Joanna Barker
As the orphan daughter of a lowly sea captain and a disinherited noblewoman, Juliana Ashbourne is forced to make her way in the world as a governess. When a solicitor informs her that her mother’s father has recently passed on, leaving Juliana a sizable inheritance in his will, Juliana is shocked to learn that she…
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REVIEW of Wager for a Wife by Karen Tuft
Lady Louisa Hargreave is on the verge of announcing her betrothal to the Earl of Kerridge when her family receives some shocking news: a promissory note written by her grandfather before she was even born makes her contractually obligated to wed another. And William Barlow, the impecunious Viscount Farleigh, has no intention of tearing up…
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REVIEW of The Rise of Miss Notley (Tanglewood #2) by Rachael Anderson
Coralynn Notley wants love, not a titled aristocrat. When her social-climbing father arranges a marriage between her and a detestable old baronet, she flees from home, taking refuge with a kindly couple in the countryside. Determined to earn her own way in life, she applies for the position of housekeeper at a nearby manor house…despite…
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REVIEW of The Fall of Lord Drayson (Tanglewood #1) by Rachael Anderson
Colin Cavendish, the new Earl of Drayson, intends to sell one of his country estates. Unfortunately, that will mean evicting the vicar’s widow and her daughter Miss Beresford from the Dower House, but after all, it was the earl’s father who had made that foolish promise to let them live there, and the promise was…
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REVIEW of Seeing Miss Heartstone by Nichole Van
With a head for mathematical figures and economics, nineteen-year-old Arabella Heartstone is well able to manage her deceased father’s business affairs and her own sizable fortune. With her mother plaguing her to marry, Miss Heartstone takes matters into her own hands, using private investigators to research all the titled men of the ton and making…
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REVIEW of My Sister’s Intended (Serendipity #1) by Rachael Anderson
Prudence is a beautiful and talentend young woman whose own debut into society has been postponed in deference to her awkward and less attractive sister. A romantic at heart, Prudence is determined that her sister Sophia should not wed their nearby neighbor unless she can truly know and love him. But when Prudence begins her…
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