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Redeeming a (not so) notorious lady

An Affair with a Notorious Heiress by Lorraine Heath

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I’ve read and enjoyed many a Lorraine Heath book, but this latest one wasn’t all that great.  It tells the tale of Alistair Mabry, Marquess of Rexton, son of a duke and a bookkeeper.  He is the typical marriage shy rake, who is determined to wait for the perfect (proper) woman to come along to avoid scandal.  His childhood had been rather difficult due to his parent’s unconventional marriage and he doesn’t intend to make that mistake.  But then he is asked to pretend to court a young lady to increase her visibility to other suitors and this throws him […]

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8/3/2017 | Post by

The Last Hellion Takes a Wife

The Viscount and the Vixen by Lorraine Heath

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This is the third book in the Hellions of Havisham series, telling the tale of Killian St. John, Viscount Locksley.  He is the son of the mad Marquess of Marsden that we’ve met earlier in the series.  The marquess is said to have lost his mind with grief after his wife died and Locke has done his best to survive on his own and not upset his father overly much.  The manor is falling into disrepair, and the marquess needs to be locked in his rooms at night or he will go roaming on the moors in search of his […]

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3/19/2017 | Post by

Dude, she’s your sister-in-law! Not cool

The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath

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Twin brothers, orphaned at seven, Albert and Edward Alcott were sent to be raised by a family friend, the Marquess of Marsden at Havisham Hall. Insane with grief after losing his wife, Marsden wasn’t exactly the best person to raise his own son and three orphaned boys (the third being the Duke of Ashebury, hero of the first book in the series). As the boys grew up, roaming free, they became collectively known as the Hellions of Havisham. Then Albert, the elder by a few minutes and therefore the Earl of Greyling, wanted to give up his wild ways and […]

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5/6/2016 | Post by

The Rose & The Rake

The Duke and the Lady in Red by Lorraine Heath

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I’ve lurked on Pajiba and subsequently this blog, and decided to take the plunge and join. I love to read, primarily historical romance; contemporary/new adult just don’t interest me. Whether I can review on a regular basis remains to be seen, but I hope to do my best! This book by Lorraine Heath is part of a series, Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James, and is actually the second generation of characters from a previous series but I think it works well enough on its own. Rosalind Sharpe is a lady on a mission when she tours a gambling club opened […]

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1/22/2016 | Post by

[wistful country tune plays]

Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath

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Check another one off the NPR Summer of Love list. Texas Destiny is first in a trilogy about cowboy and rancher brothers living in an as-of-yet uncivilized West Texas. Preciously, they are named Dallas, Houston, and Austin. (“Our parents just named us after wherever they were living at the time,” Houston explains, which doesn’t alleviate my raised eyebrows considering Texas is huge, frequent travel in the Wild West is not something one does for fun in this era, and in the pre-birth control 19th century I’m asked to believe that the Leigh parents were such dedicated nomads that they conveniently […]

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1/6/2016 | Post by

More like When the Duke was a Terrible Bore. The heroine is good though.

When the Duke was Wicked by Lorraine Heath

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This review was written with the help of Mrs. Julien’s romance review template ™. When the Duke was Wicked is a romance of the “friends to lovers” variety. The hero and heroine have known each other since they were young, as their families are very close. The heroine and the hero’s younger sisters are BFFs. The hero grieves for his dead wife and had determined that he will never love another. The heroine believes she can get the hero to re-join polite society by asking for his advice to avoid fortune hunters. Hijinks ensue. The couple move forward together, secure […]

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11/28/2015 | Post by

A historical romance with masks

Falling Into Bed with a Duke by Lorraine Heath

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This is the first in a new series by Lorraine Heath, featuring the Hellions of Havisham. The first of these Hellions is Nicholson Lambert, the Duke of Ashebury. He lost his parents in a gruesome train accident and was sent to the country to be raised by the Marquess of Marsden. Along with him were the Earl of Grayling and his twin brother, orphaned in the same accident. Their parents appointed the Marquess of Marsden their guardian, unaware that Marsden was driven pretty much out of his mind after the death of his wife, leaving him in no fit state […]

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11/27/2015 | Post by

The con woman and the dissolute Duke

The Duke and the Lady in Red by Lorraine Heath

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Rosalind “Rose” Sharpe is a con woman, in London looking for her next victims. Posing as as the widow of a man killed in India, her story is that she’s currently low on funds, as her legal counsel are trying to get her inheritance transferred – naturally a complicated and time-consuming process. When she meets the Duke of Avendale, she is immediately drawn to him, knowing that he is rich enough that if she plays her figurative cards correctly, she might never have to swindle another man again, but also wary, as he is much more powerful and ruthless than […]

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