Strong story telling. I didn't feel like I had to keep turning back to earlier chapters or another book to understand and enjoy what I was reading. Quiet Meg is the opener of a series and it sets up two believable interesting families. Meg Lawrence is a beauty but also sincere and loving daughter...
Richard Marksley, home from the Peninsular War, is used to correcting the errors and excesses of his aristocratic relations. But this time his dissolute cousin Reginald, the Viscount Langsford, has truly gone too far. Posing as Richard, Reggie has compromised the reputation of a young gentlewoman...
The fine weather had ended last night. The drive had puddled and the road would most probably be worse. As he anticipated the visit to church that morning, he thought a difficult trip would prove fitting. It would be his first attendance at a service in months, and all for publishing the banns. J...
The New Year was only ten days old when word reached them of the disastrous battle at New Orleans, where more than two thousand British troops, many of them seasoned veterans of long years in the Peninsular campaign, had been felled by a relative handful of Americans. And the shocking defeat had ...
He had paid scant attention to the girl, even declining to introduce her to his aunt. And he had given Lady Adeline free rein with the seating, whichfollowing precedent as closely as an informal gathering might allow-placed Miss Ware at the center of the table, practically out of hearing. That Si...