First off the back blurb is a bunch of blah, blah, blah. Don't go by the back cover of this book. On the other hand I enjoyed this book. Again being an older book so it was better written. In the future I think I will abstain from newer Joan Smith books. This had a nice little mystery with smugglers and bags of gold laying all over her house that she was trying to figure out.
Even a schoolteacher is entitled to romantic fantasies. But Delsie Sommers was eminently practical. She never dared to dream of a wealthy, handsome and titled husband.
Then one day fate turned her world upside down and flung her into a marriage with a man she scarcely knew. Fortunately for Delsie, he died within hours of the wedding, leaving her his house, much of his fortune and his young daughter.
Then fate stepped in again.This time in the guise of the wealthy and handsome Lord deVigne-her late husband's brother-in-law-whose attempt to run her life aroused her spitfire temper-and her hopes....
First off the back blurb is a bunch of blah, blah, blah. Don't go by the back cover of this book. On the other hand I enjoyed this book. Again being an older book so it was better written. In the future I think I will abstain from newer Joan Smith books. This had a nice little mystery with smugglers and bags of gold laying all over her house that she was trying to figure out.
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Joan Smith is my favorite author, but her old books are best,
I love the below:
Escapade
Perdita
Reluctant Bride
Lace For Milady
Lovers's vows
Love's way
Buy them if you see them.
Thanks! I have read some of them but not others. I will keep an eye out for the ones you mentioned.
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