Marked this down to 2 stars for serious frustration with the main couple never having the intelligent conversation that would have cleared up most of the plot. It hasn't stopped me glomming everything else I can find by the author; so far her other books do have this problem but far less seriousl...
This seemed like a good book, got a decent review on one of my favorite romance book sites, had a slightly unusual setup (both plotwise and geographically [not outside of England, but at least outside of London])... but was terrible. I got halfway. I disliked Jamie, who obviously had major ulter...
Bold, brazen, and beautiful, the Reckless Brides refuse to play by society’s rules of courtship. But—come hell or high water—they always get their man… A Lady in Disguise For generations, the Kents have served proudly with the British Royal Navy. So when her younger brother refuses to report fo...
For a long moment, he thought seriously of going to ground and barring the door. It was why he had chosen to live in remote Chelsea in the first place, so he might avoid unnecessary visitations of this kind.But hiding would be cowardly, and he was not a coward.He was standing in the front hall be...
It was like an opiate in his blood, that elation, that slippery burst of joy at having done the illicit and survived to run and steal another day. And he could see it, too, on her face, the giddy delight and shock and pleasure at the thought of what they had gotten away wi...
So he could keep talking himself into this folly that had seemed so logical, so necessary when he had set out from London. Within the confines of his mind, Celia Burke had seemed a perfect demon of a woman, an easy and necessary target for his wrath. But as he waited and watched from the dark arb...
Held before him by her need, made still by his hot gaze as he followed her down, leaning in to kiss her mouth once more before he whispered, “Open to me.” Her body was stretching, arching within his hands, and she was aroused by the exquisite feeling of his dark, masculine hands stroking her pale...
Still, more drastic changes had happened in fewer—his father had taken him from home, and deposited him at the Portsmouth Naval Yard all those years ago in less than three days. And the three-day interval waiting for the colonel to retrieve his daughter from Somerset had also given Ian enough tim...
How could she not see him, when she had been watching the door like a sentinel? It seemed all of Edinburgh had been on watch as well—every head in the room turned to look at him as he strolled into the ball as if he had not a care in the world. He stopped just inside the doorway, and stood, lett...
Now that the time had come, she was not sure she could go through with it. She was not sure she could accompany Mr. Andrews, and play the charwoman, and be a thief. But she was a Blois, after all, an ancient if dishonorable house full of rogues and scoundrels. Surely she could act as one o...
And fresh remorse. He should not have spoken to Miss Burke that way. Nor spoken about his captain, earlier. Both had been mistakes, violations of his duty to his ship, and his honor as an officer. He should have kept his feelings and his temper under stricter control, and protected both the capta...