Lemonade. Marzipan. A single flower in a bud vase. The repetitive use of these images is frustrating. A further frustration is the relegation of secondary characters to a tertiary role. The female protagonist's sister is presented as a significant part of her motivation but is rarely mentioned on...
Staying in sweltering London was supposed to save Gayle Windham, Earl of Westhaven and the first and legitimate heir to the Dukedom, from his manipulative and aggressive father, the Duke of Moreland. In a clever twist of fate, his carefully laid plans ends up indirectly falling into his father's ...
The Earl of Wyndham is being hounded by his father who is desperate to secure the succession. In order to avoid his scheming father and matchmaking mamas he decides to stay in his London town house during the summer. An unfortunate misunderstanding involving one of the maids draws his attention t...
Okay, ladies, say it with me now: If you meet a guy, and you love him, and he loves you, and you're perfect for each other in every way, and if he just happens to be a wealthy English earl... um, go for it. Right? If you love him, trust him just a liiiiittle bit. He might be able to help you. Bec...
Well-written, great characters, good plot. Just didn't punch my buttons. Ex-soldier, still suffering from battle trauma, takes over neglected estate, finds illegitimate daughter of previous owner and the mysterious cousin who looks after her. Male lead: Devlin St. Just, oldest but illegitimate so...
4.5 stars. A continuation of Grace Burrowes debut. In the novella Duke and his Duchess, Devlin St Just is introduced as a little boy who is soon separated from his mother, to go live with his wealthy father, Duke of Moreland and his wife. In Soldier, he is now in his thirties and his story unfold...
Ruh-Roh Shaggy... this one has me a little confused and I would LOVE anyone else who's read it to please give me your opinion here.Just to get it out of the way, this wasn't at all as strong as the first book in the series. The characters weren't as detailed and the storyline was REALLY similar t...
I had read The Heir years ago and had enjoyed it thoroughly but the first attempt hadn't captured my attention. However, this second effort was worth the wait. I really liked The Soldier a lot, especially the balance of a character driven journey between Devlin and Emmie's secret mystery--which I...
What the hell kind of hero is this? Hazlit obviously had a thing for Maggie the way he was always sniffing her hair (cringe) and keeping mementos of her (3 strands of her hair coiled into a circle and tied with string, double cringe). Then he would chastise her and call her a dollymop! He came a...
I've been reading a lot of romance novels lately -- and this was one of the best historical romances I've read in a long time. I even got up early to keep reading it which is quite a rarity.I was really impressed with Burrowes' writing. A lot of historical's are very similar, down to the same old...
Terrific, for any time of year.Lady Sophie takes in strays of all sorts, even babies born to tweenie maids. Vim Charpentier is passing by and spots a lady in distress, so he stops to help. Between the two of the them, My Lord Baby is having a grand time, not missing his mother at all. A charming ...
Cute book! Sophie and Vim bond over an abandoned baby while snowed in at Christmas. The misunderstanding between them towards the end is a little illogical, but not too bad as far as these things go. The hero is mad at the heroine's father for minor things that happened YEARS ago, which is pretty...
เป็นหนังสือวันคริสต์มาสที่อ่านช้าไปปีนึง (แต่ไม่มีผลอะไรนะคะ เพราะเป็นเรื่องย้อนยุค ยังไงก็ไม่ทันสมัยอยู่แล้ว) ไม่ได้คิดว่าจะสนุกด้วยซ้ำ เพราะหลังจากชอบงานเล่มแรกที่เกรซ เบอร์โรว์สเขียนแล้วก็ผิดหวังกับงานเล่มต่อ ๆ มา จนถึงเล่มนี้ก็เลยเริ่มถอดใจแต่สนุกเกินคาด หลงเสน่ห์ตัวละครเด็กน้อยตั้งแต่หน้าแรก...
Good Christmas story, Sophie and Vil, meet at an inn. Sophie is there with one of her family's maids and the maid's infant son. When the maid disappears leaving Sophie holding the baby, Vil steps up to help her.Vil helps Sophie return to her family home with the baby. He is snow bound there with ...
I finished this book, but mostly out of conviction that surely something interesting was bound to happen eventually.It did not.The first half was all the main couple looking after a foundling baby, in excruciating detail. Meanwhile, the supposedly well-travelled man-of-the world hero completely f...
I don't know why this took me longer to read than the other Windham tales I'd read previously. Maybe Val not being the typical "alpha"(?) male sort of decreased my drive to get to the HEA. Belatedly, I realized that perhaps his virtuosity (is that he word I'm looking for?) at music (playing AND...
After having read the first two books in this series, I had a hard time getting through this one and didn't even finish it. the previous two books were enjoyable, but this one followed such a similar track that I completely lost interest. I became frustrated with the characters as things didn't m...
It's a good story that is brought down by the inauthenticity of the period. My immersion in the story would regularly be interrupted by some obviously wrong inaccuracy such as referencing the hero, the youngest son of a Duke, as Mr. instead of Lord. The nonchalance in which class boundaries wer...
As I've put this book on the shelf "not-my-genre" I generally think people will understand the star rating. Personally, I felt that the story was predictable and only a scattering of characters had any depth. On another note I can't stand sex scenes. At all. Not one bit. So all of the sex scenes ...
Titolo: Lady Louisa’s Christmas KnightSerie: Wyndham sistersAutore: Grace BurrowesTrama: Lady Louisa è una donna strana e complessa soprattutto per la sua epoca. Non possiede una bellezza alla moda, poichè invece di essere esile e bionda, è mora e piuttosto formosa. Non sa flirtare o coversare di...
This must be book 3 or 4 that I read by this author. None of the other was a complete winner (although they did tempt me to continue reading her but this one was the one I had higher expectations and that ended disappointing me the most. Evie and Lucas seemed like the perfect fit in the previous...
Not a single flaw. What a hero! Emotionally damaged,Darius has chosen to earn coin by playing the role of cicisbeo to two maladaptive females. He has an estate to support run by otherwise unemployable servants and a young boy who is in his protection. His father, an earl, has cut off all funds...
I enjoyed this, a good airplane read. The hero has a knight complex, needing to rescue, which is good since the heroine needs rescuing. Her father is plotting to sell her into marriage with a terrible man. I just felt Burrowes got a little carried away with her secrets and helf on to them a littl...
Their similar responses to stressful situations add a deeper level of empathy between Alice and Ethan that makes the speed of their emotional connection believable. The Lonely Lords series has a sadder undertone and adheres to the story structure and plotlines of traditional historical romance, w...
4.5 stars The courtship primarily takes place in a house party, where Lord Percival Windham is among the most eligible bachelors, and Miss Esther Himmelfarb is a poor relation invited at the last minute, to fill out the numbers.What I especially like about this novella:1) The ridiculous names lik...
This turned out to be one of the best novellas I have read. I am a new convert to this series and can't wait now to read the next one. Apparently, though, I have missed the first one called The Courtship. And I can't seem to find it anywhere, even here. Oh well, I'll keep looking.At first I didn'...
Another great hero from Grace Burrowes with another great heroine. This story has some twists and turns that kept me glued to my e-reader. It is a romance that slowly evolves rather than wham bam and very powerfully felt for that reason. How many times I was close to tears, not was I close to ...
Powerful emotionally! I have just finished reading Grace Burrowes's book ANDREW, her seventh book in the Lonely Lords series. What a marvelous story set in the Regency era, it was perfect for me! It had everything I expect to find in that genre of romance, love, passion, suspense and intrigue. An...
3.5 Burrowes' writing reminds me a lot of Mary Balogh's, in that all her protagonists turn out to be goodhearted and kind. Even the "Traitor Baron," an English lord who ended up fighting for the French during the Napoleonic Wars. The villain of the first book in the Captive Hearts series, Sebast...
The Laird is the final book in the Captive Heart series by Grace Burrowes, and it is undoubtedly the darkest of the three, having a story line dealing with victims of child abuse. Revelations were made about Michael Brodie and his reason for being the companion/guard/henchman for Sebastian St. C...
Though Lady Joan Flynn is from a noble family, she also has a great talent for dress designing, and is quite passionate about it. When she is invited to tea by Lord Valmonte to supposedly discuss her designs with his mother, she doesn’t hesitate to accept. Valmonte, however, has ulterior motive...
Nice Regency stories set around "The Duke's Arms" Inn in the English countryside. The four authors accepted this assignment with relish, and clearly communicated with each other. Nothing else could explain the presence of bunnies in all four stories. Two were more successful than the other two...
From Quinworth’s perspective, this was more contemptible than if they’d resorted to trade.It was one thing to labor for one’s bread or to make a profit off those laboring for their bread. The land alone could no longer sustain the lifestyle the upper classes maintained, and even Tye’s father ackn...
And while Esther waited for this favorite pair of boots to be found and an indispensable storybook to be tucked into the coach, she thought of her husband and of the solemn, dark-haired boy who bore her husband’s eyebrows. A man who was going to keep a mistress for all of ...
He took that wrist and tugged her to the sofa. “We’ll watch the sunrise, and you’ll tell me what transpired while I was absent. Did the girls behave, and has Simmons’s gout flared up, and which maid is making eyes at which footman?” She sat, not touching him, hunched forward on the couch, as if h...
Lady Greymoor—Astrid, and that after only one visit—held out gloved hands. “I’ve brought reinforcements.” She rattled off introductions to Lady Heathgate and Lady Amery. “Because Felicity is my sister and Gwen my cousin-by-marriage, I can lend them to you on a family-at-large basis.” Whatever th...
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Harlan said as the horses were brought around.“My ears are recovering,” Noah replied. “Have your cousins always been so damned noisy?”Harlan gave him a good shove to the shoulder. “Nini and Evvie are little girls, and you just promised them ponies this summer. Of course they’ll make heaps of nois...
“Will you tell me about France?” Michael took a swallow of hot, sweet fortification. The covers had dipped, exposing the curve of a lovely, pale breast. He twitched them back up as Brenna returned their tea to the tray. “Why would you want to know about privation, misery, cold, bad rations, and a...
Not too late. We’re not too late. Fairly’s words beat against Douglas’s sanity even as rage threatened to crowd out reason. Moreland’s liveried army was closing in, preparing to prevent Douglas bodily from entering the church and stopping a wedding Guinevere should never h...
“You going somewhere?” Tony asked, propping himself up on his elbow. He was all Michelangelo curves and tousled dark hair as he lounged on the work table, not a stitch on him. “I’m cold,” Dixie said, picking up her jeans. A few unlucky daisies hadn’t made it back into the ...
She’d grown used to seeing them in their pasture, to seeing Luis leading them into and out of the barn. He talked to them, and they seemed to listen, some secret code emerging between young man and old horses. A pair of one-ton hussies. Sid sipped h...
Just was still jumping at loud noises, tossing half the night, and eyeing the brandy decanter like a long-lost friend. Which it was not, he reminded himself sternly. Banishing the thought of a drink at midmorning, he took himself off to the kitchens, there to accost Emmie Farnum and have the disc...
He wanted to buy somebody—anybody, everybody—a celebratory drink, but the only creature stirring was a bleary-eyed maid. “Is Bartlow about?” George asked her. “In the back, making coffee,” she said, bobbing a curtsy. “He’ll have a sore head though, so you’d best not shout.” She scurried off towar...
Eve took a place beside Jenny on this observation, which leavened Jenny’s sense of desolation with a spike of resentment. “With all my family around me, how could I possibly be in want of companionship?” Eve watched their mutual siblings stepping th...
The past week had shown Jonathan one thing at least: he could not go on worshipping from afar, he needed to resolve matters with Amy Ingraham one way or another before he parted with his reason. And either way, he was determined to at least have a kiss to show for his effo...
Frederick Amadeus MacIntyre kept his voice down as he stomped his booted feet for warmth. One could not mutter such sentiments too loudly in a city gone stupid with holiday cheer. “I’ve always liked a white Christmas,” said a pleasant voice from behind him. Frederick glanced over his shoulder at ...
In sixteen days, she would board a ship—Asher’s ship—and sail for Boston.Not for home—which was one of the many insights to befall her in the past ten days.Another was that when a woman loved a man, intimacy between them could come in many forms. With Asher, all closeness had a sensual thread, th...
Gabriel lifted his head and brushed Polly’s hair back from her brow. “You’re thinking, Polonaise, and now isn’t the time for it. Kiss me.” Polly levered up and kissed him, because it was an entirely worthy suggestion. When she would have sealed her mouth to his and started...
THE EARL HELD OUT A HAND AND GRABBED the hamper, putting the blankets on top. “We need to talk, and the library will be less gloomy than the kitchen.” They’d had to sprint for the kitchen when a summer squall had caught them napping on their blankets, and the rapid shift from pleasantly dozing to...
The loneliness came through in his silences, in the grim quality of his expression around his father, in the way he watched his sisters as if bandits might seize them and carry them off.A severely handsome, grave, quiet, broad-shouldered, wounded creature with beautiful, tanned hands. Matthew Dan...
Hunt” kissed like that—closed the door to Beck’s bedroom to keep in the heat. The agreeable result for Beck was that her various homey scents lingered as well. He sat on the bed, canvassing his emotions, trying to find the shame and failing wonderfully. What he felt was ho...
Augusta gathered her shawl more closely around her, but nothing was going to penetrate the chill in her bones. I’m going to die in Scotland after all.“Of course I turned the bull loose on you,” Altsax said. “I also literally tried to move mountains to put period to your miserable existence, but S...
Just brushed out Emmie’s hair for her and braided it in a single plait. She helped him finish undressing and let him assist her out of her clothes. As he built up the fire, she used the wash water then climbed on the bed to watch as he made his ablutions. When he lay on his back beside her—not to...
He’d been happy to share an interlude of pleasure and comfort with each of them and hoped they recalled him fondly. He did not want to be a mere fond recollection for Matilda Bryce. He wanted to be the man who showed her how lovely life could be when shared with a true par...
The handwriting was faint in places, her head throbbed, her eyes ached, and the hour had grown late. A soft tap came at her bedroom door, disturbing a mental state too riotous to qualify as brooding. That gentle knock was the gesture of a man who wa...
Jeremy announced to the table at large, and he wasn’t about to take no for an answer. “Vicars do this. We call on each other as a courtesy when we’re traveling. You can investigate your crime, and I’ll chat up Vicar Weekes about Proverbs.” As the household had sat down to ...
Five days since Christian had held his countess against his naked chest, tasted her sweet kisses, and felt her hands moving over his body with desire. He could hardly credit the memory. Helene had never touched him like that, not when he was whole and hale and his mind fre...
And dear Avie was still dithering. “The part you’re staring at is in proportion to the rest of me, and you’re stalling.” “Admiring, not staring at.” “Stalling.” He hoisted her over him, and she went unresisting to her fate. “That wasn’t so difficult...