Long takes the Woman Stows Away On a Ship trope in unexpected directions. Plot: Violent Redmond is fatally bored. Her entire life is balls and house parties and tedious Society and she has started taking drastic steps to feel alive, like literally threatening to kill herself over some minute argument with one of her many, many admirers. So it is perhaps not surprising that when she meets the new Earl of Ardmay, a British-born, American raised man of mixed heritage who might be trying to hunt down her […]

Great fun to read and utterly forgettable afterwards. Plot: Captain Eversea has returned from war a huge bummer, so his family has tasked him with interviewing a potential new vicar for Pennyroyal Green and are hoping he is able to pry the stick out of his ass while he’s at it. But he’s an Eversea and so genetically incapable of following orders, so when a mysterious letter appears for him telling him to go across London to a weird museum no one goes to, he […]

I am going through Long’s back catalogue and finding random books I somehow forget to read. I’d thought I caught the entire Pennyroyal Green series but I was mistaken. And what a mistake! Plot: Alex, our Dukal hero, is ready to marry again, some years after his wife’s death. He courted a beautiful young lady who accepted his hand, and then promptly Ian Eversea into her bed. Alex does not do well with betrayal. So he decides, like the mature man of “nearly forty“, he […]

The first of the Pennyroyal Green series, which follows a generations long blood feud between two of England’s oldest family, possibly started by the theft of a cow. Plot: Colin Eversea has always been a bit of a bull in a china shop but has always managed to charm his way out of serious consequences. Then he was framed for murder, and suddenly he found himself on the way to his hanging. Thankfully, some was very invested in Colin’s wellbeing, and he was saved, rather […]