Reclaiming Lord Rockleigh by Nancy Butler

This book was a little too 'new' for me. So I will pass on putting up the (stupid) cover picture or writing the back cover blurb. I'm looking for the 'old' chaste kiss sort of book not the make out session sort of book. Bleck!

Georgina by Clare Darcy

At first I wasn't sure I would like this book as Georgina was very irritating in the beginning. A little to grumpy for my taste. But that only last for the first part of the book. I enjoyed it and will put it with the rest of my Clare Darcy collection.

Georgina was impossible! Everyone who loved Georgina despaired of her future. As wilful as she was beautiful, the young English heiress did exactly as she pleased in defiance of society's conventions. Her gentle mother trembled, her imperious grandmother raged, her legion of suitors were thrown into confusion at Georgina's madcap escapades and maddening ways.

Only one person was not troubled by Georgina's outrageous conduct-the rich, handsome, very arrogant Mr. Shannon. Mr. Shannon, in fact, did not even deign to notice Georgina's existence.

Georgina decided to change all that-with results that startled no one more than Georgina herself.

The Substitute Bride by Dorothy Mack

A somewhat pleasant read that gets a little over dramatic at the end. I would change that part but otherwise the book was alright. Nothing to write home about though.

Angelica Wayne was in a most devilish dilemma! It began when she was forced to take a post as a governess to Lord Giles Weston's motherless daughter. It grew more difficult when Angelica lost her heart to this dazzling viscount who once had been wed to the reigning beauty of the realm and now was linked with the most desirable lady of the London season.

Angelica was resigned to forever masking her feelings until Giles made a proposal that might be the answer to her wildest dreams. Sure of Angelica's indifference to him, Giles asked her to be his wife in name only, with each of them free to lead separate lives. Thus only by living a lie could Angelica keep the only man she had ever wanted, as this spirited Regency heroine staked all her happiness on a man who was afraid to love!

Strangers In Company by Jane Aiken Hodge

Somewhat of a slow read. I enjoyed The Winding Stair and a few other Jane Aiken Hodge books a little more. But oh well. Since Marian is traveling in Greece on a tour bus there is a lot of mythology in this book as the tour guides go on about what they are seeing. And as many accidents that were going on I think this is one tour that I would be trying to get out of a fast as I could.

When Marian Frenche signed on as a tour companion to rich, young, unhappy Stella Marten, she was unaware that she had taken her first step on a journey into terror.

The tour of Greece started out peacefully enough. Then within a few days one of the members was killed by a strange fall in a darkened grotto. An unfortunate accident they said. But Marian was not so sure. She began to experience a chill of apprehension. She could feel the evil vibrations that were slowly turning the trip into a nightmare.

Two more people had accidents. Then sudden death struck again.

Now Marian was certain there was a murderer hidden among the innocent tourists. And she was equally certain that she had somehow become the next target....

Payment In Kind by Diana Campbell

I don't understand these books where the heroin is constantly snapping, glaring at people, and angrily responding in conversations. Does anybody really want to marry such a person? If I were a man I don't think I would be going "Hot diggity dog! This woman is so amazing even though she never has a nice thing to say to me. I must end up with her!"This book was a painful unrealistic bore to read. I will rename this book 'Painfully Unkind'.

Molly Trevor's father had made a fortune and lost his good name by becoming a Midas-like moneylender rather than remaining a penniless aristocrat.

When Molly inherited both the glitter of his gold and the shadow of his shame, she was quite willing to increase the one and ignore the other-until she spied the Viscount Ogilvie from afar. Molly vowed to wed this splendid lord at any cost, even if it meant changing her name and hiding her past.

Molly had the will, the wit, and the wealth to pull the wool over society's eyes-but even she found how hard it was to keep love blind.

The Earl's Invention by Diana Campbell

Usually if I find a character of a book to be annoying it is always the heroin. This time it wasn't the case. The Earl of Sedgewick was not believable at all with his running on attendance of Bonnie to the angry won't let her get a word in edge wise. The ending was stupidly written and the whole book a bit of a bore. So I will rename this book 'The Earl's Boring Invention'.

Well-bred but impoverished Miss Bonnie Gordon let herself be persuaded by the Earl of Sedgewick to pose as his niece. Thus the earl could put a damper on the leech like greed of prospective heirs to his vast estate and the possessiveness of the women who swarmed around his handsome person.

But Bonnie did not count on the perils of the part she had to play-the open wrath and naked threats of the lovely and livid Lady Pamela Everett...the howls of the sharp-clawed bits of muslin whom the earl wished to cast off...the Machiavellian machinations of the furious Hellier clan who saw their dreams of enormous wealth waning.

But most dangerous of all was the earl himself, who was thoroughly committed to his status of unwedded bliss and would surely break the heart of any young lady foolish enough to fall in love with him...

Mad Masquerade by Barbara Hazard

Wow! I really liked this book. I would classify it under action adventure romance, which really is my favorite kind of book. It reminded me a little of Madeleine Brent's books or Jane Aiken Hodge. I think this time the back cover of the book made it sound more stupid then what it was about. Thank goodness for that. I am a little curious if Barbara Hazard's other books are anything like this. If they are then I might have found another favorite author.

John Haverfield, the Marquess of Vare, was in no hurry to take a wife-and certainly not one like the tomboyish, outrageously independent, thoroughly intractable young Lady Laura Lockridge.

For her part, Laura wanted no part of any man- certainly not one like the maddeningly self assured and insufferably arrogant marquess.

But journeying over dangerous roads and through mazes of intrigue in Italy, far from the safety of London's social rules, this perfectly mismatched pair of titled travelers found themselves forced to pose as newlyweds-on a honeymoon that tested to the breaking point the vows of both of them never to love, honor, or obey...

Fleeting Fancy by Rosemary Edghill

Finally, I book that I am not going to complain about! There were no overwrought emotions flying around, no Regency catch phrases falling like bombs to annoy me, and no angry shrew heroins that I want to shove off a cliff. The writing in this book was fine. The only thing I will complain about is the picture on the cover of the book. It was so stupid that I refuse to post it.

What sort of woman would marry Viscount Severn sight unseen...?

But Primula Greetwell had seen him before--seen him, loved him, and married him, ten years ago. It had been a cruel trick, of course, a false marriage crafted by a young and thoughtless rake bent on seduction. But somewhere in Severn, Primula believed, that man she fell in love with so briefly must exist.

Marriage to a bride of his father's choosing was the price of Lord Severn's return to England after banishment to India. Nothing, however, could have prepared him for his new wife--the older, wiser, lovelier Primula Greetwell, the innocent and undeserving victim of the cruelest act of his life.

Not even the most dedicated optimist could call it a match made in heaven--that is, unless love turned the tables in a formidable game of dual deception...

Double Deception by Patricia Oliver

I started out this book with high hopes. Just in reading the first few pages it made it seem as if I was reading a masterpiece of literature. Okay rather a bit of an exaggeration I know. But after the very painful reading of "A Spirited Bluestocking" and "The Thief of Hearts" this book was much better reading. Then something changed. By the end of the book I was wishing it would hurry up and end. There were too many over descriptive words. I mean how many 'stabs of longing, lurching hearts, pain shooting through breasts, seared hearts, constricted hearts, heart wrenching, heart exploding, yearning hearts' must you wade though before your own heart wants to stop reading the book! There was a lot over exaggerated emotion that seemed to go flying back and forth with the main characters, Athena and Sylvester. Along with this was the overuse of Regency 'drop words'. It didn't annoy me as much as the overindulgence of trite emotion. Maybe I should rename this book 'The Exploding Hearts Double Deception'.

Oh yes, and I liked the picture on the cover of the book again.

Athena Standish was a beautiful young widow with a little girl to raise and a life on the icy edge of poverty to lead. Young Peregrine Steele might have been a trifle too impulsive for her, but he was too handsome, too adoring, and too rich for her to refuse his marriage proposal.

There was but one barrier between Athena and the sage haven to wedlock. Peregrine's father, the Earl of St. Aubyn, saw Athena as a wanton widow in search of wealth and set out to defeat her designs with every weapon at his command, from cold coins to warm kisses. This devastatingly attractive lord had not wanted a woman since his own wife died, but he knew all too well how to make a woman want him-as Athena was torn between the man with a ring for her hand and the one with the key to her heart....

A Spirited Bluestocking by Joan Overfield

I didn't finish reading this book all the way as it has a ghost in it. I find ghosts in books very creepy and have no need to keep reading on. Therefore I won't write what the back of the book cover said. I was on page 127 and there where 257 pages to the end. As for the writer I found that she used to many over used catch phrases that Regency Romances writes find compelled to drop. The main female character was angry. Not quite as bad as Sara in The Thief of Hearts. This book was not as bad as the aforementioned but only marginally. I would rename this book "The Annoying Bluestocking".

Yes I know this is the second old Regency Romance book that I have written about so far. There will be more to come as the lot of books I bought off of eBay were all Regency Romances. I have my eye on a lot of old mystery books. We shall see what happens.....

The Thief of Hearts by Rachelle Edwards

This book was alright. Not really too gripping of a read. I liked the picture on the cover of it better then what I was reading. Mean I know. Sara comes across as somewhat shrewish while constantly arguing with her younger selfish sister. Maybe the book should be renamed "The Thief of Ms. Grumpypants Heart".

"You mark my words, one day Sara is going to fall for someone quite unsuitable and will have her heart broken. It's always the way with females who are considered 'sensible."

Everyone agreed Sara Auden was sensible. Until the day her carriage was stopped by a dashing highway man. She was never the same after that encounter. She could think of nothing else.

Then suddenly her highwayman became a guest at her home. He introduced himself as Richard Merrick, Earl of Melford. A friend of her brother's. But Sara knew who he really was-and what he wanted.

She also knew her heart skipped a beat every time she saw him. Sara couldn't allow herself to fall in love with a common thief. Or was it already to late for her?