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Smuggler Meets Shipping Heiress

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah McLean

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Naturally, after Devil found love in Wicked and the Wallflower, it’s time for his quieter brother, Beast, to find his match.  In this case, that match is Henrietta “Hattie” Sedley, daughter of shipping magnate.  She has grown up watching her father manage his business, and is ready to take over from him – of course, being in 19th century England, she has to deal with gender stereotypes and an incompetent brother who is seen as the natural heir. In fact, she has her brother to […]

A historical romance with ice smugglers (bingo)

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah Maclean

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#CBR11 Bingo: History Schmistory (set in the Victorian era) On the eve of her twenty-ninth birthday, Lady Henrietta “Hattie” Sedly, aided by her best friend Lady Eleonora (Nora), the daughter of a duke, is planning on going to an exclusive brothel in Covent Garden catering to women. She needs to lose her virginity, so her father will stop trying to pressure her into marriage. Firmly on the shelf, Hattie has discovered that despite a generous dowry, no one actually wants to marry her. She’s too tall, […]

The devil you know

Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah Maclean

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This is book one in the Bareknuckle Bastards series, which has a rather complicated premise that takes the reader a little too long to figure out at the start.  There is a prologue regarding three boys born to three women on the same day that are illegitimate and one girl born the same day who may or may not be a duke’s daughter.  From there the first chapter jumps into action with a mysterious stranger planning to sneak into a ball held in honor of […]

A revenge plot that thankfully goes completely wrong

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Felicity Faircloth may be the daughter of an Earl, but she is now on the fringes of society and her family desperately need her to land a rich husband, sooner rather than later, please. She’s not at all happy to discover just how dire the family’s finances are (and that they’ve kept the truth from her for over a year), but she may have just doomed them all, but telling a very inconvenient lie at a ball held by the reclusive Duke of Marwick. The […]

A scandal in London

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I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve found that when I’m backpacking, I do very well with romances. They are entertaining enough to keep my attention in physically uncomfortable circumstances, when exhaustion can make it hard to focus. And as long as I avoid thrillers, they are not scary enough to make me nervous when I’m sleeping alone in the woods. Knowing I was going on a trip, I picked up A Scot in the Dark (2016) by Sarah MacLean. Lillian Hargrove is a beautiful red-haired […]



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