B- Reviews / Book Reviews1970s / child heroine / England / Portugal / second chance at love2 Comments
At Edmund Brooke’s insistence, his ten-year-old daughter, Vitorina, leaves the closed world of her old and strait-laced great-aunts and their Portuguese mansion—complete with chapel—and journeys to a boarding school in England. Edmund readily accepts the offer of a golfing acquaintance to act as chaperone for Tory. Once on the train, ... 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 Reviewsaccountant / American historical / family relationships / Historical / second chance at love / turn of the 20th century / upstate New YorkComments Off on REVIEW: A Desperate Hope by Elizabeth Camden
Eloise Drake’s prim demeanor hides the turbulent past she’s finally put behind her–or so she thinks. A mathematical genius, she’s now a successful accountant for the largest engineering project in 1908 New York. But to her dismay, her new position puts her back in the path of the man responsible ... more >
B- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / England / First-Person / older heroine and hero / second chance at love / self discovery2 Comments
Does first love deserve a second chance? During her first week at art college, Rosie Jackson, almost seventeen, locks eyes with the charismatic Peter from across the room of their nude figure drawing class, and the course of her life is changed forever. Now, on the cusp of sixty-five and ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews1920s / Commoner Aristocracy pairing / England / holiday novella / novella / Scandal / second chance at loveComments Off on REVIEW: Love in the Country by Jill Barry
It’s December 1925 and the young Annabel Crawford is about to get a surprise. Her mother, Lily Crawford, explains that the Viscount Lassiter is unexpectedly joining them for Christmas dinner – and Annabel couldn’t be less impressed! The Viscount walks under a cloud of scandal after the infamous end of ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / England / holiday novella / marriage on the rocks / novella / Regency / second chance at love7 Comments
Will a chance meeting on Christmas Eve… Alicia Sinclair, Countess of Kinvarra, cannot believe that fate has been so cruel as to strand her on the snowy Yorkshire moors with her estranged husband as her only hope of rescue. During their rare encounters, the arrogant earl and his countess act ... more >
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