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Review: The Raven Prince (Princes #1) by Elizabeth Hoyt

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I’ve recently read some pretty heavy novels so I think it was long over due for a fluff fest!

With December being so chilly and long, it often ends up being my steamy romance month. This month I’ve read a lot of historical romances of the ‘bodice ripper’ persuasion…and not necessarily on purpose.

I’ve never read anything by Elizabeth Hoyt so I didn’t really know what to expect.

She has been recommended to me by other historic romance fans and after looking through some of her titles, The Raven Prince caught my eye. I think mostly because I liked the title, it sounded interesting and it sounded almost like a fairy tale.

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Review: Secrets of a Scandalous Heiress (The Matchmaker Trilogy #3) by Theresa Romain

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Augusta Meredith is creating scandal all over the place.

She has not only suffered and embarrassing and tragic love affair but she is also not mourning the death of her parents as society would expect.

She has fled to Bath where she assumes an identity to find herself a lover. While in Bath, she runs into Joss Everett who recognizes her, but he promises to keep her secret if she keeps his.

Joss is in Bath trying to locate a blackmailer for his cousin, who also happens to be his employer. Though Augusta propositions him to be her lover, Joss respectfully declines as he has his own agenda.

But the two decide to work together to at least discover the identity of the blackmailer.

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Review: An Affair Downstairs (Thornbrook Park #2) by Sherri Browning

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Though not a baron himself, Logan Winthrop, is from a wealthy family. But he has a colored past. It’s rumored that he killed a man and now lives in shame as an estate manager at Thornbrook Park.

Things are more or less tolerable for Logan…that is until the feisty Lady Alice Emerson sets her sights on him.

Lady Alice has zero interest in marriage but her sister, The Countess of Aberford, intends to make an advantageous match for Alice one way or another.

Alice has a bucket list of sorts….travel and most importantly, have a lover. Nothing major or long term, she just wants to make love once so she can say she did it, and then move on.

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Review: Die I Will Not (John Chase Mystery #3) by S.K. Rizzolo

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British mysteries are some of my favorite books to read….especially those set in either the Victorian or Regency eras. Who doesn’t love a good murder by gaslight novel?

The John Chase series intrigued me. I often gravitate toward British mysteries/detective novels with female protagonists, so a series that boasted a male detective grabbed me.

Penelope Wolfe has married the wrong man. She tried to break away from her father and in her attempt at ‘independence’ she has found herself very unhappily married. Jeremy is basically gambling himself into the ground.

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Review: The Sharp Hook of Love by Sherry Jones

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For her entire life, Heloise has known what her future would hold. She has been preparing to become an abbess.

All her education, grooming, and introductions have been carefully planned for her to ascend to that position.

She has long accepted that she will likely never know love or a life outside the service of God and she is ok with that, until she meets Pierre Abelard.

Pierre is the headmaster at the Notre Dame Cloister School. He has had many intelligent pupils and is well known in many academic circles as simply ‘the best’ and he is equally as notorious in those circles when it comes to women.

Heloise’s uncle manages to convince Pierre to tutor his niece as part of her final preparation into her future career. Pierre is immediately captivated by Heloise.

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