This series got off to a good start with a novella, and I liked this first full length novel even more. I’m not crowing about a new favorite author or anything, but this was a solid book and really hit the spot for what I wanted to read. Elizabeth Sloane is a young woman brought up in incredible privilege in New York during the Gilded Age (I can’t remember the exact year – late 1880s, I believe). Her brother runs the family railway and she […]
Promising new (to me) author
Here’s another new to me author that I decided to try out with a prequel novella – this time with better results. I have already read the first full length book in the series (review pending) and intend to keep going. In 1887, Ted Harper is the owner of a major bank in New York City and one of the wealthiest men in the country. He is standing on a train platform when a young woman comes up, kisses him, and pretends to be his […]
A Hellion in Pants
This is the third book in the Wicked Deceptions series, so once again I’ve dived into the end without reading the first two. I wasn’t too lost, however. This book focuses on Lady Sophia, the daughter of a marquess, and the hellion in question. Several years ago, a disastrous intimate encounter with a man she thought she would marry, has convinced her to remain single. Now her mission in life is to help women who are not as privileged as she is, specifically employees at […]