Review by Lynn Reynolds The prologue starts on December 31, 1720. It has a shocking beginning and then it jumps over a year ahead. The setting is Venice and our character describes it as if it were female. I always find it interesting how a town is described as being female. It also makes me [...]
by Keira on July 23, 2012 · 0 comments
in 2 Stars, ARC, Black Sheep and Bad Boys, Children, Cross-Dressing Female, Farming, Gentry, Great Britain, Low Self Esteem/Confidence, P-R, Playboys and Rakehells, Runaway, Secretary or Assistant, Small Town, Spinster, Victorian, Virgin Heroine
Hero: Reginald Davenport is the disinherited rake turned poor relation wastrel to his cousin the Duke, which is why Reggie is thrown for a loop when his cousin gifts him his childhood home, the most prosperous property the new Duke owns. Strickland brings back many ghosts for Reggie, but he is not prepared to meet [...]
by Keira on July 9, 2011 · 0 comments
in 4 Stars, ARC, Erotica, Great Britain, Mistress or Courtesan, Playboys and Rakehells, S-U, Spectacles, Spinster, Travel, Victorian, Virgin Heroine, Writer
A lady in Victorian times had little options when it came to acceptable jobs. Writing novels was simply not one of them and certainly not publishing them. That’s why Collette Jardiniere hides her authorship of The Last Days of a Rake behind the pseudonym Collin Jenkins. That is until some trumped-up peacock of a rake [...]
by Keira on February 13, 2011 · 0 comments
in 3.5 Stars, ARC, Business, Category, Contemporary, Cooking, Enemies, Executive, Great Britain, P-R, Tycoon
Callum Ironstone wanted nothing more than to get Miranda Owen off his conscious. He could still remember her grief-stricken accusations that he killed her father, drove him to suicide. He’d done his best to make up for the harshness of his actions in the years afterward, not that she knew, but guilt still plagued him. [...]