More like 2.5 stars...I received this book through the review program over at netgalley. I originally put it down after the first couple of chapters and did not plan on finishing it. The story is set in mid-18th century England. As a fan of eighteenth century fiction (ie Jane Austen), I had a...
This was really lovely. I kept waiting for he other shoe to drop the entire book, you know what I mean especially in romance novels, but it never did. So that, oddly enough, gave me some anxiety hence why I'm knocking it to four stars. Otherwise it was really lovey, and romantic and nice. I was a...
This is a Georgian romance. Lady Elizabeth Wylder is pledged to be married to the Duke of Hawkesworth but neither is excited at the prospect of an arranged marriage to a stranger. Inevitably, they find they are attracted to each other and fall in love, but their happiness is threatened by Hawke's...
Charlotte said, pointing with her furled fan to the nearest chair in the row before the rail, “and we’ll leave that one for Lord Crump, when he arrives.”Diana nodded and took the seat beside her sister, the frothy ruffles of their gowns mingling. As Mama had suggested, Diana had worn her new cher...
The walls enclosing this garden were the same gray stone as the Lodge itself, but rough-hewn and haphazard, and settled into place by time. Twisting, gnarled crabapple trees grew in each corner, their boughs bright with new green leaves and filled with the chirps of the songbirds who’d wisely cho...
He knew he shouldn’t be here—as a rule, dukes were not supposed to stand bareheaded on their front steps like shopkeepers—but today was an exception. Lizzie was going to call on her sisters and mother at Marchbourne House. She would be gone only a few hours at most, and she would be back at the C...