Reviews - Historical

Thoroughly Captivated
Chantry
Dawes

It’s in the early nineteenth century and Captain War is busy making sure none of his men is left behind helpless as his battalion retreats from the battlefield near Erivan. Pulling them from the physical fires caused by their enemy’s cannons comes almost naturally. Mending all their scars and making his wounded men functional again is his second item in his list of priorities.

Lady Lucretia Tifton, beautiful and pregnant, is trapped in a horrible marriage to Sir Matthew Tifton. Lucretia runs away trying to escape from Matthew but is stopped by a judgmental furniture-maker, Mr. Giles Morecambe, who brings her back home. Matthew, on his deathbed, shows his hatred.

Edmund has set his sights on one woman only. Determined to either marry her or stay a bachelor forever, he can’t understand why Katherine is intent on refusing him. With Katherine’s sister married to Edmund’s father, she knows that it will mean her being tied to Chrissy forever if she does accept and that just won’t do.

Dirt Smudges and old artifacts are what hold Persephone, ‘Percy’, Blackwell’s attention, much to the dismay of her grandmother and polite society. Helping to host a festival for antiques, Percy is practically floating on clouds with all the borrowed treasures pouring in for her to itemize and display.

A Scot of Her Own
Maeve
Greyson

The main storyline takes place on the Isle of Mull in Scotland in 1273. It is a time of political unrest and upheaval, and Thorburn MacDougall, the Gallóglaigh Constable (the Gallóglaigh are a band of warriors tasked with finding criminals, similar to a modern-day police force), has his hands full trying to quell the tensions.

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