Captain Gideon Rossiter must do battle in words and with arms to clear his name and win back his fiancee after a six-year absence earns him penury and misfortune in Georgian England
ENEMIES IN BATTLE, COULD THERE BE TRUCE IN LOVE...?Exquisitely beautiful Rosamond Albritton, genteel though she was, found herself hating the Jacobite rebels who had caused her fiance's death.And for some reason, she immediately distrusted the handsome, haughty Dr. Robert Victor, who tended her i...
Patricia Veryan is an author I keep hearing good things about but I have found it difficult to find her books. When I did find this one I decided to sit and read it. I did like it a lot but since I realised this is part of a series I'm wondering if I should have waited till I had the others to re...
WHICH WAS MORE INTRIGUING--THE GRAND ESTATE OR THE FEISTY FEMALE?When Captain Jack Vespa suffers a head injury in battle, he chooses to recuperate at his family's estate, the dilapidated--some say haunted--Alabaster Royal. It is there he meets, in a rather surprising fashion, Lady Francesca and h...
FORCED TO MARRY HER UNCLE FOR MONEY--IT WAS THE OUTSIDE OF ENOUGH. To foil her family's attempt to keep her considerable dowry in their coffers, Nanette disguised herself as an abigail and took to the road alone--that is, until she crossed the path of Sir Harry Redmond. That dashing gentleman ra...
"I do love Devenish, Mama. He's the very dearest boy."Lovely Yolande Drummond has been promised to Alain Devenish since both were children. Her parents adore Dev and are counting on the match to unite their land with the neighboring Aspenhill.Any other young lady would be thrilled by the prospect...
BETROTHED TO ONE MAN, IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER . . . Rachel Strand, a beautiful young Englishwoman, discovered a wounded stranger on the battlefield of Waterloo. Despite his wounds, the valiant young soldier saved her from looters - and possibly worse. Though engaged to a powerful and dangerous Fre...
The only reason this book is not a five star is the fact that I didn't like the girl. She doesn't go with Roland at all. Other than that though, a great read. I really enjoyed it. Roland Otton (or Matheison) is a very interesting character: an amazingly gorgeous (epitome of tall, dark, and handso...
The beautiful, high-spirited Lady Sophia Drayton had planned a clever revenge against the Marquis of Damon. For had he not conspired to send her beloved brother into the battle of Waterloo that had sent him home a cripple? Now, Sophia faced Damon on his own ground. In the thirteenth-century ghost...
"'T'S ALMOST TWO YEARS NOW. I WILL NOT WALK IN TERROR OF MONSIEUR SANGUINET FOREVER" So says Miss Charity Strand, and, having escaped the clutches of the evil Frenchman, she is in no mood to endure the boorish behavior of arrogant Mitchell Redmond when he appears at Strand Hall. But when Claude...
After the loss of her father and brother in the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Penelope Montgomery finds herself a virtual prisoner in her own home, at the mercy of her cruel uncle and his vile wife. When her uncle announces her betrothal to his crony, the odious Roland Otton, she is very upset. The...
Elspeth Clayton's family has been living in considerably reduced circumstances, and to improve their finances, her brother Vance becomes a soldier of fortune. His assignments take him to France, where he is caught up in political intrigues. Injured in an attempt to escape a troop of dragoons, he ...
"VERY WELL. IF JUSTIN OFFERS MARRIAGE, I WILL ACCEPT." Forced to wed a man she despised, lovely Lisette Lindsay found herself alone on her wedding night. It was worse than the horrors she's imagined. Justin had left a note, of course, but Lisette was thrown into a rage of confusion and humiliati...
HE INSISTED ON TREATING HER LIKE A TROLLOP' ...and Rebecca Parrish, a most respectable young widow, found him utterly odious. What right had this supercilious rake, Trevelyan de Villars, to incessantly force his attentions on her? Rebecca far preferred Trevelyan's charming friend, the noble Sir ...
Lord Horatio Glendenning must battle not only the sinister League of Jewelled Men, but also Miss Amy Consett, a gypsy hoyden determined to win Glendenning's heart and his purse.
SHE WAS A SIMPLE COUNTRY MISS--CAUGHT UP IN A WORLD OF DANGER AND ROMANCE! Zoe Grainger arrived in London for a Season under the auspices of her dreadfully vain and disagreeable sponsor, Lady Clara Buttershaw. But even the awful Lady Buttershaw could not spoil Zoe's chances for love, especially ...
There's so many things I loved about this book! I really don't know why I waited so long to read it. The story stars off quite simply with Phoebe and The Tryant's sham engagement to get themselves out of a scrape. It all started when they found a Jacobite rebel in the garden during a party and fo...
Despite the rather cheesy covers, these books, by Patricia Veryan are some of my all time favorite books. I've read all her series, and they are all fabulous reads (some better than others, of course). I've just picked three of my favorite books from the various series. They are adventure, regenc...
Perhaps because I started in the middle of the series (I couldn't figure out which one was the beginning), I couldn't get into this book. At the beginning I couldn't keep all the characters straight. The characters seemed like they were brought in from Central Casting and there was no wit or edge...
I recently re-read "A Shadow's Bliss," and appreciated yet again how very talented a storyteller Veryan is.Yes...it is dated and corny. Yes...Jack's suffering for his Code of Honour is a little over-the-top, but it is such an incredibly sweet and romantic story that you just don't care! Veryan's ...
Mrs. Regina Stansbury, a woman of high fashion and dwindling fortunes, has just trapped London's most courted bachelor into agreeing to marry her daughter Cordelia. Though young Miss Cordelia Stansbury has admired the handsome and dashing Gervaise Valerian for years, she is mortified by the circu...
AN ABANDONED ESTATE, A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, AND A LADY DRAWN IRRESISTIBLY TO INTRIGUE!As spirited as she is penniless, living sparingly on the dilapidated estate called Lanterns, Marietta Warrington is the backbone of a large family whose fortune has been gambled away. Then she becomes drawn to a...
Though he had half the women in England at his feet, criminally handsome Alain Devenish had--at the ripe old age of thirty-three--eluded all the trappings of matrimony. Perhaps it was his devotion to his ward, Miss Josie Storm, the irresistible little minx he'd rescued from gypsy captors. Who'd ...
Lieutenant-Colonel Hastings Adair, best friend of Captain Jack Vespa, the dashing hero of Veryan's last two novels, wakes up in the arms of an unwed lady of Quality, scandalizing all of London, and in attempting to right things, runs straight into a government conspiracy.
Beautiful, flame-haired, fiercely independent Prudence has two passions: Scotland and the heroics of Ligun Doone, scourge of the hated Redcoats. And she is shocked when her father takes one of those Redcoats–a wounded English soldier–into their home on the shores of Loch Ness. But soon Prudence ...
Captain Jack Vespa has just discovered the man he thought was his father wasn't at all, but a cold-hearted villain in search of a fortune. In this magical novel, Jack hunts for his true papa -- but will he find another villain?
Riding slowly down the hill, watching the vista gradually unfold to reveal a wandering stream, a goosegirl herding her flock across an emerald meadow, and the old tavern standing in thatched and whitewashed serenity amid its oaks, he was not surprised to see an artist at work. An elderly man, sea...