Reviews - Historical

Over twenty years ago, Evan Taylor wrote the story of his passionate romance with a woman he met through a mirror. Years later, his son Francis still lives in the shadow of that story, as the boy whose birth brought about his beloved mother’s death and ended his father’s happiness.

On the eve of his wedding, Gabriel Preston, the Duke of Beckhampton, received a note from his fiancée, Lady Eliza Clayton, explaining that she couldn’t marry him after all. However, all Eliza knows is that her father sent her and her mother to Boston the night before her marriage with no explanation.

The widowed Lady Daphne, with her son’s future hanging in the balance, has decided it’s time she consider remarriage. Although quite handsome, the Earl of Bedford, Alex Le Bec, is not an option. His reputation leaves no doubt that marriage is not a part of his future. Despite the chemistry between them, Daphne refuses Alex’s advances. Determined to win her over, Alex proposes a wager.

In fourteenth-century France, privileged Lord Étienne de Beynac is the youngest of six sons. He gambles. He brawls. His father has had enough and sends him to England to become a Benedictine monk, which requires Étienne to make vows of chastity and poverty. What could go wrong? Everything. English Lady Philippa Willoughby is the only daughter and older offspring of a widowed baron.

WESTERN:  Adeline Aldrich has turned down yet another proposal of marriage, and her mother has handed her an ultimatum. Either get married or move out. Adeline decides to move from her beautiful home in Rhode Island to her sister Florence’s boarding house in the wilds of Montana.

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