News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Banned Books Week officially ends today. While not every link this week is related to Banned Books Week, a number… Read more »
Description: Miraculously spared from death, Malcolm Sinclair erases the notorious man he once was. Reinventing himself as Thomas Glendower, he strives to make amends for his past, yet he never imagines penance might come via a secretive lady he discovers living in his secluded manor. Rose has a plausible explanation… Read more »
Description: With her husband, amateur-sleuth the Honorable Barnaby Adair, decidedly eccentric fashionable matron Penelope Adair is attending the premier event opening the haut ton’s Season when a body is discovered in the gardens. A lady has been struck down with a finial from the terrace balustrade. Her family is present,… Read more »
Not Quite a Wife Series: Lost Lords #6 on August 26, 2014 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Sometimes a Rogue, Not Always a Saint Marry in haste, repent at leisure. James, Lord Kirkland, owns a shipping fleet, half a London gaming house, and is a ruthlessly effective spymaster…. Read more »
The Escape by Mary Balogh Series: Survivors’ Club #3 Published by Dell on 2014-07-01 Genres: Historical Romance Pages: 432 Format: eARC Source: purchased, the publisher Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Proposal, The Arrangement, Only Enchanting, Only a Promise Also by this author: The Proposal, The Arrangement, Only… Read more »
Description: Lily Dawson, dubbed the Countess of Charm by the Prince Regent himself, plays the role of the courtesan flawlessly while her real purpose is spying in the service of the Crown. Her mission now is to seduce a duke to test his true loyalties. She’ll do it, even though… Read more »
Otherwise Engaged on April 22, 2014 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads Miss Amity Doncaster, world traveler, is accustomed to adventure and risk. Benedict Stanbridge, a man of science and a spy for the Crown, has faced danger in the darker corners of foreign lands. But they are about to face… Read more »
Description: Aidan Dougal is alienated from his family, and he’s convinced he brings destruction to everything and everyone he touches. For such a man, intimacy is impossible and marriage out of the question…until a gentle woman with delicate beauty and mysterious enchantments turns his cool composure into red-hot passion…. Read more »
Review: The Peculiar Case of Lord Finsbury’s Diamonds is a novella featuring Barnaby Adair and his wife Penelope (nee Ashford) and Inspector Stokes and his wife Griselda, all characters from 2008’s Where the Heart Leads. Laurens has long planned a series of historical mystery-cum-romances involving Barnaby and Stokes, and the… Read more »
Sometimes a Rogue Series: Lost Lords #5 on August 27, 2013 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Not Quite a Wife, Not Always a Saint Sometimes. . . Even the most proper young lady yearns for adventure. But when the very well bred Miss Sarah Clarke-Townsend impulsively takes the… Read more »
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