Reviews - Historical

An Autumn Kiss (Timeless Victorian Collection #7)
Laura Rollins, Annette Lyon,
Lisa H. Catmull
The latest Timeless Victorian Collection anthology includes “The Plucky Miss Ruth” in which Miss Ruth Hughes decides her life is stuck in a time loop and only by helping her cousin reunite with her soulmate - with the aid of the handsome Lord Lambert - can the loop end. In “Mr. Dowling’s Remedy”, an heiress is sent to an asylum by her stepfather.
Lucinda North applied for a job as a teacher at a girl’s school and upon arrival finds the staff in an uproar and herself thrust promptly into the role of an impersonator.
Meriden Park
Julie
Daines
Mary Grace was rescued as a girl in India and was raised by the Wellings in Calcutta. This half Indian half English girl has been raised as an English lady but knows her place in society as a lesser. Not a servant but not a lady, Mary Grace is caught in between two worlds belonging to none.
Desperate Hope
Susan Leigh
Furlong
Much of this story occurs in New York during the Revolutionary War. Gavin Cullane is close friends with Alden Carter, who protects Gavin from injury during an explosion, but suffers a traumatic injury in doing so. Alden is married to Tansy, and has told Gavin many stories about her strength and courage during their time together.
Simon Webb, the Marquess of Vanbridge, is a bit of a recluse who employs quirky household servants who add a lot of personality to this story. Simon creates multiple exhibits for the Museum of Antiquities, hires a director, and then basically washes his hands of it. Norah Wright and her two sisters, Ella and Lena, were raised on Oak Island in Nova Scotia with their parents.

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