B Reviews / Book Reviews / D Reviews18th-century / Agent/Spies/Undercover / antihero / discrimination / fortune hunter / Georgian / Historical / Historical fiction / Ireland / marriage-of-convenience / prejudice4 Comments
Ireland, 1749. Dennis McDermott, a witty, charming and daring young man with shades of the Scarlet Pimpernel, lives two lives in eighteenth-century Dublin. Fashionable society idolises him as a handsome, rakish man of their world, never suspecting that he is the mysterious leader of the Irish underground whose nightly missions ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads18th-century / Bath / class differences / Commoner Aristocracy pairing / England / Georgian / Historical / sweet romance13 Comments
She only knew that she was his to command; that her body thrilled to his lightest touch, her heart leapt at his smile; and that he was not for her. Honor Fenton was lovely, but penniless. There seemed to be little in her future but spinster-hood. Then one day she ... 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 Reviews / Recommended ReadsBluestocking / enemies to lovers / England / Georgian / Historical / Rake Hero6 Comments
1782, London Alethea Newnham is a young woman with decided literary tastes, to the extent that she is called a Bluestocking by the gossips of Town. Educated in the country by her scholarly father and raised as an equal with her brothers, Alethea finds it difficult to play romantic games ... 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 >
Book Reviews / C- ReviewsArtist / cartoons / European-Historical / France / French-Revolution / Georgian / Historical fiction / nurse6 Comments
Dear Ms. Coffman, There’s something uniquely disappointing about reading a bad book from a favorite author. I felt this way recently after reading your historical novel, Veronique, after years of reading your wonderful Gothic romances—Moura and The Alpine Coach are wonderful, but my favorite is The Dark Palazzo, a dreamy, ... more >