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REVIEW: The Curious Rogue by Joan Vincent

Dear Ms Vincent,

vincent-crogue.jpg I love Georgian historicals and if authors can toss in some daring do as well, I’m a happy woman. I read the first book in this series, “A Bond of Honour” and while I didn’t like two particular things that happened towards the end of the story, I was intrigued by the secondary character of the French Comte de Cavilon and was delighted to see that he had his own book. After all, heroes of nationalities other than England are few and far between.

It was a strange experience for Elizabeth Jeffries to have a rogue jump into her carriage on a rainy night–and kiss her passionately. She was disturbed more by the excitement of his embrace than fear of him. And though he vanished, the memory of him lingered, making it difficult for Elizabeth to marry the foppish Comte de Cavilon–though Cavilon’s tender ways intrigued her.

The book starts off great. It’s a dark and stormy night when our political Scarlet Pimpernel-French hero makes his way back into England via a storm tossed ship after which he must elude the British authorities in a mad dash for …