Review: Seduction (The Reincarnationist #5) by M.J. Rose

Complex, exotic scents bring this novel alive!

This isn’t just a tale of historic fiction– it’s a novel with a unique blend of the paranormal, romance, mystery, and psychology.

In 1843 the renowned author Victor Hugo discovers that his beloved daughter, Didine, has drowned.

In his grief he turns to the occult in hopes of communicating with his daughter. His wife, family, and friends all being having séances and they soon discover they can communicate with the dead.

Soon the séances turn into something more….Victor fears he has open an unwanted door to the spirit world when he starts being visited by the Shadow of the Sepulcher (the devil) who offers him what he desires most….the return of his daughter.

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Review: The Lady of Secrets (The Dark Queen Saga #6) by Susan Carroll

https://i0.wp.com/d.gr-assets.com/books/1343323605l/13572810.jpgIn Edinburgh 1591, Maidred Brody is being executed. Found guilty of being a witch, she is sentenced to die by fire along side another well known witch names Tamsin Rivers.

Everyone in town has turned out to watch the execution, including the king himself, James I. Maidred’s brother, Robert Brody, plans on appealing to the king and begging his sister’s pardon.

When James refuses, Robert watches unable to do anything but watch her die. At that moment he vows his revenge on King James….someone will answer for this miscarriage of justice.

As the witches burn, Tamsin Rivers calls out a curse on the House of Stuart forever striking fear in the heart of King James.

Years later in Brittany The Lady of Faire Isle, Margaret “Meg” Wolfe, is called to attend a young girl who has been cursed by a local suspected witch. Meg is a known witch herself but not an evil witch….a white witch, a healer….a curse breaker.

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Review: The Gilded Lily by Deborah Swift

When Ella Appleby’s employer turns up dead, she knows what will be come of her….she will be out in the cold without a second thought unless she thinks of something quick.

Ella wakes her sister, Sadie, and together the loot her employers mansion and head for the glitz and glamour of 17th century London.

But when they arrive, they are met with anything but opportunity. Work is hard to find and the sisters are forced to take any employment they can get.

Luckily they both find work at a wig shop and are able to rent a small room. Though their loggings and income are meager, Sadie is simply happy to be with her beloved sister again.

Ella had been working as a maid in a large home back in Westmoreland, and unlike her sister, Ella wants something better. To her, London is a city of opportunity and she is willing to do anything to fulfill her grand ambitions. Ella is beautiful and ruthless…a deadly combo.

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Review: Summerset Abbey (Summerset Abbey #1) by T.J. Brown

It is the dawning of a new era and the world is changing. The ridged confines of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are on their way out as England ushers in the modern age.

The Buxton sisters and their adopted ward have just lost their father and are struggling with their grief. The eldest daughter, Rowena, is faced with the burden of providing for her younger, sickly sister Victoria and their ward Prudence.

She is entirely overwhelmed and doesn’t know if she is suited for the task ahead of her but she is willing to try.

Before the funeral is at a end, their uncle, the Earl of Summerset and his solicitor, approach Rowena to read her father’s will and it is discovered that the Earl is to control their entire estate and plans on selling their house, she has never felt more helpless.

Rowena and Victoria are to live with their uncle and his wife at their illustrious estate, Summerset Abbey, until such a time as they both find suitable husbands.

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Review: The Tutor’s Daughter by Julie Klassen

High on the cliff tops of Cornwall, the distant sounds of a pianoforte can be heard echoing through Ebbington Manor late at night.

Emma Smallwood and her father have come to Ebbington Manor as live in tutors for Sir Giles Weston and his family. Emma and her father ran a small boarding school where the two eldest Weston boys, Henry and Phillip, attended in their youth.

Emma doesn’t harbor much affection for the eldest brother, Henry. All she remembers of Henry was that he was a bully who always played pranks on her when he was at the school. As for Phillip, Emma remembers him as a kind hearted, friendly boy.

When a letter arrives asking for their presence at Cornwall, Emma and her father quickly accept but Emma is worried she might run into Henry, a thought she does not relish.

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