Reviews - Historical

When widower and bank clerk Theodore Streater discovers his late mother was the owner of a finishing school, he knows he needs someone to run the enterprise. He turns to his best friend’s wife, Lady Bostwick, who runs the charity Finding Work for the Wounded and had helped him find a bank position after losing his arm. Daisy Albright is at a loss.

Alexander Carnahan has been shunned by society ever since being tried for the death of his wife. He claims his innocence and has no choice but to dig up his own evidence to clear his name. One night while inspecting a suspect, Alexander happens upon a young woman named Mary Mason who is trying to escape her abductors. Alexander takes her back to his meager estate and nurses her back to health.

In “The Earl’s Wagered Bride,” the Countess of Marsden has invited every person of standing to her renowned Christmas party, with seven days and nights of frolicking, gossiping and match-making. Her three nieces, the Craymore sisters, who lost their fortune at the hands of their gambling, alcoholic father, are now forced to live at their aunt’s house.

For years Prudence Pertwee has been crossing onto the Duke of Pembroke’s lands with her birdwatching ladies to catch a sight of the rare local birds and to study all of their habits. As the new Duke of Pembroke, Bhrodi de Shera has made it his mission to stop Prudence from exploring the dangerous cliffs on his property.

The legend of Guinevere gets a new makeover in this fanciful rendition. The story opens with Guinevere escaping Camelot with Lancelot. She is severely burned from head to toe on one side of her body, plucked from burning at the stake—supposedly on Arthur’s order.

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