Musings of a Romance Author
Bareknuckle Bastards Book 2 Lady Henrietta Sedley is desperate to prove to her father and the world that she can run his shipping business better than her brother, or any other man. Unfortunately, her brother makes the mistake of stealing from the Bareknuckle Bastards, kings of the criminal classes of Covent Garden, and they want … Continue reading My Review: “Brazen and the Beast” by Sarah MacLean
Book 4 The Maiden Lane Series Lady Isabel Beckinhall loves to tease the serious and devout manager of the children’s home she patronises, Mr Winter Makepeace. Isabel rescues the notorious Ghost of St Giles when she finds him injured in the streets. She becomes increasingly fascinated by both the Ghost, and Winter, and it does … Continue reading My Review: “Thief of Shadows” by Elizabeth Hoyt
Hamish MacHugh has reluctantly inherited a Dukedom he did not want. Megan Windham is being blackmailed into marriage. Hamish offers to help Megan to retrieve her compromising letters, and save her from an unwanted marriage. I really struggled to get into this novel. The plot and characters felt dull and did not engage me. I … Continue reading My Review: “The Trouble with Dukes” by Grace Burrows
Book 2, The Maiden Lane Series The very respectable Lady Hero Batten, saves Lord Griffin Reading from being discovered in flagrante delicto ...a compromising position...oh, you know what I mean, he was banging another man’s wife at Hero’s engagement ball. Thoroughly repulsed by his ungentlemanly behaviour, Hero is happy that she will not have to … Continue reading My Review: “Notorious Pleasures” by Elizabeth Hoyt
Part of the Bareknuckle Bastards series Wallflower, Lady Felicity Faircloth, is desperate to be welcomed back into the arms of high society. To do this she makes a deal with Devil, king of London’s dark underbelly, who promises to turn her into a desirable temptress. Unknown to Felicity, Devil has his own plans for her. … Continue reading My review: “Wicked and the Wallflower” by Sarah MacLean
Book One in the Maiden Lane Series In order to find financial support for her foundling home, widow Temperance Dews, makes a deal with Lazarus Huntington, Lord Clare. In return, she must help him find a killer in the slums of St Giles. The plot meanders along for the first half of the book and includes … Continue reading My review: “Wicked Intentions” by Elizabeth Hoyt
Amber Daulton Timeless Honor Publisher: Books to Go Now Release Date: August 24, 2015 ASIN: B014G2IFJ0 ISBN: 1517037964 Audio ASIN: B019S1ST6S Genre: Historical/Time Travel Romance Word Count: 30k Heat Level: 3 Flames/Sensual Blurb Jaye Ramsey decided to prove to her eccentric grandmother that time travel only existed in movies by vacationing in Bolivia with her … Continue reading Critters on Tour: “Timeless Honor” by Amber Daulton
Lady Anne Book One -Ruined- Blurb Upon the death of her father, her Guardian, "The Honorable Robert Conrad" married her at sixteen to a vicious beast named Gerard Candor, the Marquis de Coeur. Her 'husband' would bring friends with him when he would arrive to provide her the small pittance she was expected to live … Continue reading Critters on Tour: “Ruined” by Liza O’Connor
Twenty years after being turned down by Viola Kingsley, Marcel Lamarr, Marquess Of Dorchester, meets her again at a country inn. Viola’s world has been turned upside down since she discovered her marriage was illegal, and her children are illegitimate. The pair decide to run away together to escape their current dissatisfaction with life. Viola … Continue reading My review: “Someone to Care” by Mary Balogh
Book 4 in The Ravenels Series I was really looking forward to reading the story of these two characters who we first meet in the second book, “Marrying Winterborne”. Dr Garrett Gibson is the only licensed female doctor in England and Ethan Ransom is a former police detective and now a rumoured assassin. Ethan is also … Continue reading My review: “Hello Stranger” by Lisa Kleypas