B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads18th-century / Agent/Spies/Undercover / Artists / chemistry / England / First-Person / France / Historical / religion4 Comments
In eighteenth century England, porcelain is the most seductive of commodities. In eighteenth century London, porcelain is the most seductive of commodities; fortunes are made and lost upon it. Kings do battle with knights and knaves for possession of the finest pieces and the secrets of their manufacture. For Genevieve ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads18th-century / England / Georgian / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / Older Man/Younger Woman12 Comments
Horatia Winwood is simply helping her family When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Horatia is willing to sacrifice herself for her family’s happiness. Everyone knows she’s no beauty, but she’ll do ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / Canada / Contemporary / dual-timeline / enemies to lovers / French and Indian War / Ghost / museum / soldiers / upstate New York6 Comments
“The house, when I first saw it, seemed intent on guarding what it knew; but we all learned, by the end of it, that secrets aren’t such easy things to keep.” It’s late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / class differences / England / Georgian / Historical / Rockliffe Series7 Comments
Hazard: a game of Chance and Luck, made riskier when Fate is rolling the dice. For Aristide Delacroix, the first throw summons shades from his past. A man he had met, just once, over a card-table … and the lovely girl indirectly responsible for plunging his life into catastrophe. For ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / American historical / France / French-Revolution / Historical / inspirational romance / Pennsylvania / Whiskey Rebellion15 Comments
Lacemaker Vivienne Rivard never imagined her craft could threaten her life. Yet in revolutionary France, it is a death sentence when the nobility, and those associated with them, are forced to the guillotine. Vivienne flees to Philadelphia but finds the same dangers lurking in the French Quarter, as revolutionary sympathizers ... more >
Book Reviews / C+ Reviews18th-century / Agent/Spies/Undercover / class differences / Commoner Aristocracy pairing / England / gay historical / Georgian / Historical / lawyer4 Comments
In Georgian England, love can mean ruin—even for a Shaw . . . Lord Darius Shaw has never been in love before. But when he renews his acquaintance with lawyer Andrew Graham in a raid on a molly house, where men meet men for forbidden pleasure, they discover mutual feelings ... more >
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