Reviews - Historical

When Euphemia (Effie) Green’s husband dies, she’s left destitute with a child to raise and with an elderly aunt who needs care. Her situation is dire so she turns to crime, specifically spending her evenings as a highwayman stealing from the rich. Griffin St. John is a second son, all the wealth, none of the responsibility of title. He’s a rake, and a bored one at that.

WESTERN: Bertha Mae Jorgenson wants a simple life, one that includes her grandparents and life on their farm. Her overzealous, social-climbing mother wants more for her daughter. That ‘more’ includes marriage to a man ten years Bertha’s senior, the son of a banker, who stands to inherit a large about of wealth. Unfortunately, Mr. Woods is a vile man.

When her husband takes his physical abuse a step too far, Judith Harper is left in a coma. Returned to her family home to live out her final days, she spends four months in an unconscious state. The intervention of surgeon Lord Farringdon saves Judith’s life.

Christopher Anglesey is determined not to let the fact he is Marquess of Banbury get in the way of his duty to the crown. He attends all the events of society but has managed to keep the marriage minded mothers and daughters at bay. Lady Diana Lawrence lost her sight in a carriage accident and has come to the conclusion that she will never be found desirable by any man.

There is a rift between the Storme cousins ever since their uncles, the seventh Earl of Hadleigh and his brother had a falling out. The cousins never know what happened, but Andrew Storme, the eighth Earl of Hadleigh, is determined to heal the rift and make the Storme family whole again by having a Christmastide house party.

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