Reviews - Historical

A Waltz with Traitors
A.L.
Sowards

Filip Sedlak is a Czech soldier who never wanted to go to war. He defected to the Russians, and has spent much of the war finding others to fight so he can have an independent Czechoslovakia. Nadia Linskaya has known a life of privilege. But just as her family has decided to flee in the wake of the Tsar’s death, she finds herself alone and on the run from Bolshevik agents.

Lady Marianna (Anna) Ravencroft is surprised when Captain Fraser Castleton, lately Duke of Willbury, walks into the lending library with his friend, Barrington. He is home in Sommer-by-the-Sea after returning from the Napoleonic wars. She has not seen him since before he left some ten years before. They take up as best friends, just as they were before he left.

Victoria Leighton has seen few people in the year she has been widowed. Left with an almost insurmountable debt, she has struggled to find ways to provide income and stay out of debtor’s prison. Wracked with emotional scars left from her late husband, Victoria is afraid no one will even notice if she’s gone – until the day an equally scarred man arrives at her door.

Sarah Mortensen is ruined. Her father’s debts led her to a forced engagement, and only a plan formed by Dowager Countess of Whickerton saved her from the undesirable marriage.  Sarah can cry off her engagement after spending a fortnight away when she was “kidnapped”.

Lady Beth Ashton has been set aside by a marquis after a family scandal. Looking for a way to spend her days and remove herself from London, she seizes an offer from her sister-in-law, Rose.

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