Archive for the tag 'historical'

Aug 30

Annie and the Ripper by Tim Champlin

Blurb: 1888, Whitechapel. Jack the Ripper terrorizes prostitutes and baffles Scotland Yard; 1888, London. Annie Oakley thrills audiences of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show with her expert marksmanship. The Ripper may have picked the wrong target in this fascinating retelling of the well-known case of Jack the Ripper… with a Western twist! A mentally unbalanced [...]

Aug 27

The Lion of Kent by Aleksandr Voinov & Kate Cotoner

Blurb: Squire William Raven has only one goal-to finally receive his spurs and become a knight. When his lord, Sir Robert de Cantilou, returns from a five-year crusade in the Holy Land, William wants nothing more than to impress him. After Sir Robert’s return, noble guests arrive from France, bringing intrigue to the castle. William [...]

Aug 20

Per Ardua by Jessie Blackwood

Blurb: Addicted to the soaring skies, brash high-flier Arthur Edward “Jack” Ratigan returns to Britain to fly bombers when his birth country goes to war against Germany in World War II. It also means a return to his ancestral home of Pren Redyn House in Wales—and risking his career and freedom if it comes to [...]

Aug 10

The Sergeant’s Lady by Susanna Fraser

Blurb: Highborn Anna Arrington has been "following the drum," obeying the wishes of her cold, controlling cavalry officer husband. When he dies, all she wants is to leave life with Wellington’s army in Spain behind her and go home to her family’s castle in Scotland. Sergeant Will Atkins ran away from home to join the [...]

Jun 27

Duke of Sin by Adele Ashworth

Blurb: He is called the "Duke of Sin" … a notorious rogue and recluse whose reputation is as black as the Cornish night. They speak of his conquests, his past, and his mysteries in breathless whispers. And now lovely and desperate Vivian Rael-Lamont has no choice but to enter William Raleigh’s lair. Vivian prayed that [...]

Jun 11

Winter Garden by Adele Ashworth

Blurb: In 1849, a celebrated French beauty-and British spy-risks her life to expose smugglers with the help of a dashing Englishman. But it’s her heart that’s in danger when the local gentry spread gossip of their illicit partnership. Because beneath the veil of secrecy lies a very true passion. My thoughts: This book seems to [...]

Apr 09

The Gentleman and the Rogue by Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon

Blurb: A lad from the streets meets a lord of the manor… When war veteran Sir Alan Watleigh goes searching for sex, he never imagines the street rat he brings home for one last bit of pleasure in his darkest hour will be the man who hauls him back from the edge of the grave. [...]

Apr 05

The High-Class Highwayman by Julia Talbot

Blurb: When Julian is forced to turn to crime after he loses his inheritance, he decides that he can do better than the incompetent highwayman who tries to waylay him one dark night. That’s how the High-Class Highwayman comes into his own, and he does very well for himself, at least until Griffen Michalis comes [...]

Jan 10

Illegally dead by David Wishart

Blurb: When Corvinus receives a letter, with a tantalising PS, from his adopted daughter, Marilla, mentioning there might have been a murder, he hot-foots it to Castrimoenium at once. Not that everyone agrees that Lucius Hostilius was murdered. Poison was apparently the means of death, but Lucius was terminally ill: it was only a matter [...]

Jun 18

The Squire by Shawn Lane

A rather short historical. However, I thought the time in between Duncan’s leaving and Sir William finding him was way too rushed. Duncan left furtively and disappeared. The next scene is set a few weeks later and Sir William turns up to look for Duncan at the place Duncan is working at. Even though I’m [...]

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