B- Reviews / Book ReviewsGoldsborough series / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / Napoleonic wars / Peninsular-War / Regency / soldiers / trad regency / War / Military6 Comments
Elizabeth Goldsborough was enjoying a London season that promised marriage to that handsome gentleman, Simon Bellgrave. But an accident involving arrogant Captain Darius St. John stole her happiness. She was forced to accept St. John’s honorable offer of marriage, though she knew he had no interest in her. How was ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdisability / disabled hero / enemies to lovers / English heroine / forced-marriage / French hero / Historical / Napoleonic wars / Regency / revenge / Switzerland7 Comments
Mary Burns is travelling through Europe with her friends when war resumes between Britain and France in 1803 and Napoleon orders the arrest of all British subjects on French territory. Their fate is to be decided by Captain Armand Dufour, who has bitter personal reasons for taking vengeance on the ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsBritish Navy / dysfunctional family / England / family relationships / holiday novella / Napoleonic wars / novella / second chance at love2 Comments
Lieutenant Philip Kempton and Anna Tremayne fall in love during one idyllic summer fortnight. When he’s summoned to rejoin his ship, Anna promises to wait for him. While he’s at sea, she marries someone else. Now she’s widowed and he’s Captain Kempton. When they meet again, can they put aside ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / France / Historical / Napoleonic wars / older heroine and hero / second chance at love / War / Military8 Comments
‘You may be an adventurer, but you strike me as a gentleman.’ After the French suffer a bloody defeat at the battle of Leipzig, the survivors of Napoleon’s army retreat through Germany. Plundering and pillaging along their way, a group of stragglers attack the Von Hugel estate. Hiding in the ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / England / Historical / Napoleonic wars / Regency / spy2 Comments
With England under the shadow of Napoleon’s invasion, the windswept coast of Devon has become a hotbed of intrigue—with spies and smugglers terrorising the county, no one is safe. No respectable lady should concern herself with romantic notions of spies and smugglers, but Joanna Fineton does not care. When she ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsalternate-reality / dragons / Historical Fantasy / Napoleonic wars / war / War / Military19 Comments
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia has been roundly thwarted. But even as Capt. William Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the retreating enemy through an unforgiving winter, Napoleon is raising a new force, and he’ll soon have enough men and dragons to resume the offensive. While the emperor regroups, the allies ... more >