Grant Morgan is one of the most famous and sought after of London’s Bow Street Runners. He’s made a substantial fortune solving crimes for the wealthy, but is starting to find his life a bit boring. When he’s called to the banks of the Thames to identify what appears to be a strangled woman, he is first of all surprised to discover that she is still breathing, and secondly, by her identity. The half-dead woman is Vivien Duvall, London’s most desirable courtesan. Once she wakes […]
The Duke and the con woman
Alexander Lewis, the Duke of Greyland has just been jilted by his intended. She eloped with a cavalry officer, but Alex is mainly annoyed that he’s going to have to start looking for a new bride. His best friends, the Earl of Langdon and the wealthy Mr. Ellingsworth refuse to let him stay at home and brood and insist on taking him to a new and fashionable gambling club that is rumoured to only stay open for a month. They claim he’ll find ample things […]
Upbeat and Fun Romance
So thanks to the recommendation from Mikki Blu (did I get that right?) I checked out this M/M romance by Cat Sebastian, and I loved it! Lawrence is an earl with severe anxiety and a family history of mental illness. He is also an inventor and recently blew the roof off the conservatory. Georgie is a con artist on the run from his criminal gang after he went soft and did not swindle an old widow. They are thrown together in a ramshackle castle that […]
Revisiting a classic I had seriously forgotten every aspect of – also, Cannonball
Sara Fielding and Derek Craven have a hell of a “meet-cute”. While researching her future novel in one of the seedier corners of the East End, Sara comes across Craven being held down and attacked by two thugs. They’ve slashed his face open, and she intends only to fire a warning shot from her pistol (which sh obviously keeps in her reticule for defencive purposes), when she instead ends up killing one of the assailants. She discovers that the man whose life she saved is […]