What’s it all about? From the blurb: Beautiful Sylvia Gabriel has more cause than most to despise the Game of Kings. Chess has been the ruination of her life—ending her engagement, filching her fortune and reducing her to poor relation. But when she finds herself falling in love with chessmaster David Rutherford, the new Lord […]
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Snowdrops and Scandalbroth by Barbara Metzger
What is this book about? The blurb: Kathlyn Partland mistrusted Lord Chase’s offer to pay her for appearing in public with him. But she was in need of the money, and he was in need of proving to Society that he was a rake. Chase assured her it was a ruse, that he believed both […]
The Highwayman Came Waltzing by Kathleen Baldwin
I have loved the poem ‘The Highwayman Came Riding” from when I first read it during high school and part of the reason I like this novella so much is probably because of the way the writing mimics the lyrical feel of that poem. I also like the mystery behind The Frenchman (the highwayman of the […]
The Stolen Bride by Jo Beverley
Something is wrong. Lovely young Lady Sophie Kyle fears her handsome fiance Lord Randal is having a change of heart about their upcoming marriage. Why else would the once notorious rake respond to Sophie’s playful flirtations with a stuffy “Behave yourself”?