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Dear Ms. Beverley,
 First off, this book not only has many of the same characters as WINTER FIRE, it is a direct sequel. For readers who haven’t read that one or don’t know the world of the Mallorens, then they can probably muddle along as you do a good job of giving a quick synopsis of events so far without dumping copious amounts of information into the story. But people will understand things better having read the other books first.
Plot: Miss Damaris Myddleton (may I ask what’s with the ‘y”s in your characters’ names) is a suddenly wealthy heiress who had her solicitors draw up a list of needy, titled, single men in England. She picked the Marquess of Ashart, went to his drafty, cold, falling down home and met his formidable grandmother who, for Damaris’s loads of money, gave her approval to the match. However, before Ashart actually gets around to proposing, he falls in love with Genova Smith (see WINTER FIRE) and proposes to her.
Damaris is humiliated as everyone at the Marquess of Rothgar’s Christmas house party knew of her expectations and watches Ashart’s very public, very impassioned proposal to Genova. …
Dear Mrs. Beverley,
 At last, Rothgar’s story. I think that you did a good job considering the fact that you’d built Beowulf Malloren, the Marquess of Rothgar into an almost superhuman figure over the course of the other four books in this series. He needed a strong woman to balance him and he got it in the person of Diana Westmount, Countess of Arradale.
I do admit to loving Diana in Secrets of the Night. Especially when she manages to best Rothgar not once, but many times over the course of that book. Something that not many men could claim to have done. And I enjoyed the fact that that is what Rothgar freely admits first caught his notice about her. Her strength and courage. She both grows and slightly falters in their book though. The growth comes from her association with Rothgar and seeing the halls and places of power in London. She has exercised power in her own sphere as a peeress in her own right (a rare and, for most men of the time, unsettling creature) but it is not until she sees the glitter and intrigue at court that she both fully comes …
Dear Mrs Beverley,
 Once again you manage to take an almost unbelievable plot and get me totally involved in it. This is book four of the Malloren series and truly exemplifies the unofficial Malloren motto: With a Malloren, all things are possible.
Rosa, Lady Overton is in a fix. Well, actually everyone on her husband’s estate is in a potential fix. Sir Digby and Rosa have no children and Digby is in failing health. He is much older than Rosa and married her after she was badly scarred in a carriage accident. If he dies without a child, his estate will be taken over by a nephew who adheres to an extreme religious sect who will make life for the tenants a living hell. Rosa, with Sr Digby’s unspoken consent has set off on a mission to get knocked up at a masquerade ball. Only she chickens out and leaves only to find a drunk man left by the side of the road. Moved by Christian charity she takes him to the dower house of her cousin, the Countess of Arradale. Once there she screws her …
Dear Mrs. Beverley,
 Book three of the Malloren series takes up right where book two left off. With the Mallorens neck deep in intrigue and sophisticated plots.
Lady Elfred Malloren has been pampered and over protected for all her 25 years by her four brothers. When fate leaves her alone in London with a married friend, she seizes the chance to do something a little wicked. A little wild. And winds up fleeing for her life through the back lanes of Vauxhall Gardens after overhearing part of a Jacobean plot and realizing that one of the speakers is Fortitude Ware, Earl of Walgrave and sworn enemy of all things and people Malloren despite the fact that his sister married a Malloren in My Lady Notorious. He’s also the man Elf has secretly lusted after and teased much to his conventional male distaste.
Fort sees a young woman in disguise who might know more about his affairs than he wants known and hustles her off to his London home for a night (he hopes) of wild sex with no strings attached, as he tells her upfront. But Elf has no intention of submitting and escapes during the night leaving Fort …
Dear Mrs Beverley,
 In this second in the Malloren series, you pick up right where My Lady Notorious left off. It’s nice to have read that one for a teensy bit of
backdrop and some more insight into the characters but it’s not necessary as I think you’ve done a great job telling just enough of it so readers aren’t lost in TF, without retelling the whole story as some authors do in series books.
In this book we get to see the seamy side of Georgian London. It’s a world where men and women are seduced by the lure of easy pleasures and where gaming is a right of passage for England’s elite. Portia St. Claire’s brother has learned that the hard way after staking his estate on a turn of the cards. Desperate to find the funds to redeem the debt before their estate is taken from them, Oliver and Portia seek the aid of Fort Ware, Earl of Wargrave. But instead they find themselves tangled up with the second of the Malloren brothers, Bryght.
Bryght is a gamester but only to help fund his many investments and keep up appearances in high society. He finds Portia a …
Dear Mrs. Beverley,
 I had fond thought of this book before I even started it because it was the subject of the first email I ever exchanged with someone who’s become a dear friend of mine. I had mentioned after the year 2000 AAR Top 100 that I was looking for a copy and Deb, the consummate bookstalker, emailed me saying she had one. Plus about 10 other books I’d been looking for. Deb, this review’s for you!
Mrs. Beverley, you work for me yet again with this one, the first in the Malloren series. Cyn, Captain Lord Cynric Malloren, is a great hero who is bowling along in his brother, the Marquise of Rothgar’s coach, when it’s held up by some very interesting highwaymen. Sensing something isn’t quite right, he goes along with things til he finds himself kidnapped to drive the coach to an out of the way cottage where things get even weirder. He soon concludes that the two *highwaymen* are actually women, one of whom resumes her female identity and turns out to be the mother of a months old infant. The other, the one who intrigues him, stays in her male …
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