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February 8, 2023

REVIEW: Wedded Bliss by Barbara Metzger

JayneBook Reviews / C+ Reviewsfather and son / found family / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / mother and son / Regency / Widowed Heroine / widower2 Comments

Robert Rothmore, Earl of Rockford, thinks Alissa Henning is simply delightful-exactly the kind of woman who’d make the perfect mother for his sons. But Alissa swore she’d spend the rest of her life scraping pennies together rather than wed the insufferable earl and become a glorified governess. Still, she couldn’t ... more >

November 3, 2022

REVIEW: An Early Engagement by Barbara Metzger

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsBattle of Waterloo / childhood friends / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / Regency / strong heroine4 Comments

Adventurous Lady Emilyanne had no one but Viscount Stokely to turn to when her guardian tried to force her to marry his awful stepson. So the viscount married her while on leave and returned to his army unit. Which left Lady Em to attend to estate and ton matters pretty ... more >

August 15, 2022

REVIEW: Miss Lockharte’s Letters by Barbara Metzger

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsfarce / Historical / Regency / teacher heroine / trad regency15 Comments

When Rosellen Lockharte, penmanship teacher at a girls school, believes she is dying from influenza, she feverishly pens letters to those who have, through various misdeeds, brought her to this pass. And to forgive them. Well, most of them. Let Lord Stanford bear the responsibility for her death always. Except ... more >

July 17, 2019

REVIEW: Snowdrops and Scandalbroth by Barbara Metzger

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEngland / Historical / Regency / virgin hero4 Comments

Recommended Read

This is Metzger’s usual fun and mayhem with a bewildered hero, who often sticks his foot in his mouth, trying to keep up with all the madness into which the heroine plunges him. Courtney Choate, Viscount Chase is a pure man. If a woman should save herself for marriage, then ... more >

June 28, 2019

REVIEW: The Luck of the Devil by Barbara Metzger

JayneBook Reviews / C- ReviewsEngland / family relationships / Historical / military hero / Peninsular-War / Regency5 Comments

When Rowanne Wimberley meets Carey Delverson, one of the Delverson Devils, at Almack’s, he is about to join his regiment in the Peninsula. Carey’s service is grueling, and his new sense of responsibility makes him offer (unsuccessfully) for a young relative. Rowanne isn’t waiting for this devil to capture her, ... more >

December 25, 2013

REVIEW: Christmas Wishes by Barbara Metzger

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / Christmas / England / Historical / Regency / road-romanceComments Off on REVIEW: Christmas Wishes by Barbara Metzger

A crisis sends Juneclaire Beaumont on a difficult journey to London, forcing her one night to take shelter in a stable with the rakish Earl of St. Cloud. Though he behaves as a gentleman, the ton would never believe him to act the nobleman for a moment, let alone a ... more >

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