B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / dysfunctional family / England / estranged family / Gothic / Historical / Regency / Smugglers9 Comments
Only a deathbed promise to her dying father could force Christina Tretton to travel to Tretteign Grange, the ‘Dark House’, and meet her estranged family for the first time. Having to fast-talk her way out of an encounter with smugglers on the way is only the beginning. Waiting for her ... more >
Reading Lists / Top Ten ListsContemporary / Gothic / Historical / interracial-romance / sci-fi romance / Urban fantasy9 Comments
This year I decided to do my best of list a little early. I don’t have any new releases on my list until next year so I felt it was safe. I had a fantastic reading year; I met my Goodreads challenge with more than a month to spare and ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsEngland / Gothic / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / Regency / Soldier / Suspense / wounded hero4 Comments
An Uncommon Beauty… Hidden away in rural Devonshire, Phyllida Satterthwaite has always been considered more odd than beautiful. But in London, her oddity has made her a sensation. Far worse, it’s caught the eye of the sinister Duke of Moreland–a notorious art collector obsessed with acquiring one-of-a-kind treasures. To escape ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsEngland / Gothic / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / politicians / Portugal / Regency9 Comments
Camilla Forest has fallen upon hard times since fleeing France and the tyrannical rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. When her job as a governess ends in disaster, Camilla finds herself penniless and alone, stranded on a muddy roadside. A chance encounter with the notoriously aloof Lord Leominster presents Camilla with an ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican historical / dual-timeline / dysfunctional family / family relationships / Gilded Age / Gothic / Historical / journalist / Late Victorian / murder mystery3 Comments
From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and murder. Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor ... more >
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Dear Reader: I don’t remember when I first saw the film version of Rebecca – I probably caught it on Turner Classic Movies when I was in my teens. I don’t think I saw it all the way through the first ... more >
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