This was a very fluffy read, and one that barely held my interest. I liked McCabe's light, breezy writing style in the anthologies I have read, but the writing did not translate as well to a full length novel.The plot line centers around a quick marriage between Emily Carroll, a very shy Earl's ...
The second half of this book was frustrating for me in a lot of ways because so much would have been easier if Emily and Nicholas had just had an honest conversation. They were both so worried that revealing their secrets would lead to the failure of their marriage that they ended up going too f...
Julia has never met her stepbrother, Marcus Hadley, but she's heard all sorts of nasty rumors about him. So imagine her surprise when he shows up at her home-and turns out to be the man of her dreams...
Lady Iverson has taken up the "haunted" archeological dig her late husband left half-finished. When she meets the estate's lord, Miles Rutledge, he feels an otherworldly connection with her-and he prays she feels the same...
Catalina hurried as fast as she could down the lane, not even seeing where she was going as she tried to get away from Buxton and from that house. She hadn’t felt the first drops of rain at all. The day had started in such an ordinary fashion. Lydia was working on some ama...
This was a young reader’s book, so there were none of the racier tales I found later (like Leda and Danae!), but I was fascinated by stories of Artemis, Apollo, and Aphrodite, and their lives on Mount Olympus, as well as the terrible things that happened to luckless humans who encountered them. L...
I mean, why her in particular?" Cassie asked. They were walking along the shore toward the tunnels, on their way to Antoinette's ceremony. Antoinette, Chat, and Lady Royce hurried ahead, carrying Antoinette's books, herbs, and candles, while Lord Royce trailed far behind. He did not even appear t...
The click of rosary beads, the gentle rustle of cloth. He sucked in a breath, and the scent of lavender overlaying some medicinal tang seared his lungs. It hurt just to breathe, to move at all. How long had he been like this? An eternity? Was this the afterlife, then? &nbs...
He didn’t see the sunset outside that streaked the sky with glorious pinks and oranges, turning the overgrown gardens to a shimmering gold. He didn’t hear the click of the door as the housekeeper peeked in and then scurried away again, leaving a dinner tray on the table outside. He stared down at...
Everyone had seemed soundly asleep when she’d tiptoed in before dawn, so hurt and confused she could only curl up in her bed and pray for the pain to leave her. But she should have known Anne would miss nothing.‘Did anyone else notice?’ she whispered.‘Nay,’ Anne said, reaching for the bowl of hai...
She tightened her fingers over the bowl, staring at Edward, unable to look away. She was truly caught, like a helpless fly covered over in sticky, irresistibly beautiful amber. Somehow, she was not even surprised to see him there. The whole hazy, unreal scene had the cold air of inevitability abo...
Meg murmured as she stretched luxuriously and curled back into Robert’s arms. Their little prison chamber was chilly with no fire, but his lean, muscled body was warm wrapped around hers. She couldn’t quite care that someone missed them, not with him so close to her. She c...
Lady Brownley’s house parties were always among the most sought-after invitations in the ton, and despite the terrible weather this one was no exception. Ever since she had arrived that morning, more and more people had poured into the house, laughing, drinking, growing louder and louder as the d...
It was like looking at a stranger, not the woman she had been all her life. Her dark hair fell in loose curls over her shoulders, clad in a filmy new blue silk dressing gown, and her eyes were feverishly bright. Whether with excitement or fear she wasn’t quite sure. She took another gulp of the b...
That was surely the only explanation for the blasted pounding noise, because Hayden knew that no one in his household would dare to disturb him with such a sound in the middle of the night. He rolled over on to his back in the tangled bedclothes and opened his eyes to stare up at the dark green c...
In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”Carmen Montero, known in her Seville home as the Condesa Carmen Pilar Maria de Santiago y Montero, trembled as the priest made the sign of the cross over her head. Her fingers were chill in her bridegroom’s grasp.It was done. Sh...