Eileen-Dreyer

REVIEW: Always a Temptress by Eileen Dreyer

REVIEW: Always a Temptress by Eileen Dreyer

Dear Ms Dreyer: For the first third of this book, I had real doubts about whether I would finish it. The hero, Major Sir Harry Lidge, had fallen in love with Lady Catherine Anne Hilliard Seaton, Dowager Duchess of Murther ten years prior but because he believes that she tried to foist a bastard baby(…)

How to Do “Exotic” Right: Eileen Dreyer’s <i>Never A Gentleman</i>

How to Do “Exotic” Right: Eileen Dreyer’s Never A Gentleman

People who know me know I’m hyper-sensitive to the portrayal of India and Indians in romance novels, especially British India in European historicals. Eileen Dreyer has a new trilogy, the second volume of which features an English heroine who accompanied her military officer father around the world, including campaigns in India in the early 1800s.(…)

REVIEW: Never a Gentleman by Eileen Dreyer

REVIEW: Never a Gentleman by Eileen Dreyer

Dear Ms. Dreyer, Years ago, while I was waiting for my luggage to appear on the airport carousel an old woman approached me. “Are you an American?” she asked. I said that I was. “Have you ever been to Scotland before?” I said I hadn’t but I was really looking forward to staying in Edinburgh.(…)

REVIEW: Barely a Lady by Eileen Dreyer

REVIEW: Barely a Lady by Eileen Dreyer

Dear. Ms. Dreyer, When a friend told me that you had started this historical series, despite the fact that I’m pretty much Regencied out, I was delighted. After all, you’ve written some wonderful category novels such as “A Soldier’s Heart,” and “A Rose for Maggie” that I love. After I finished it, all I could(…)