Stacy Reid

Sarah is a 28-year-old wallflower who is about to start work as a governess. She goes to a masquerade ball hoping to have a "night of passion" before she starts her career. She meets Robert (a widowed Duke) in the gardens when she is hiding from her ex-fiance. After talking to each other for a few minutes, Sarah tells Robert about her desires and Robert offers to fulfill them.

I hated this novella. I like Stacy Reid's writing, which is the only reason that I was able to finish it. The main characters' actions didn't make any sense. Both main characters were unbelievably obtuse and they kept making bad decisions. Robert ran hot and cold throughout the book, and Sarah was hopelessly in love with him for absolutely no reason.… (altro)

Phoebe wants to marry her childhood friend, George, but her parents are forcing her to marry a man who's older than her father. After Phoebe and George sleep together, they confront her parents in the hopes that they will be allowed to marry, but her parents refuse and offer George money instead. George accepts the money and leaves. When Phoebe discovers that she is pregnant, and that her parents are planning to take her child from her, she leaves their home and makes her way to Scotland, hoping to strike a deal with her panpal, whom she knows is seeking a wife.

Hugh's father is dying, and one of his last wishes is for Hugh to find a wife. Hugh was born mute and decides that the easiest way to find a wife would be to advertise for one in the newspaper. When an anonymous woman replies to his advertisement, he strikes up a correspondence with her. Hugh wants an impersonal marriage of convenience, but finds himself captivated by his mysterious panpal. Then she shows up on his doorstep.

I loved the first half of this book, but the second half was a letdown for me. Not enough happened, and a lot of the characters' actions didn't make complete sense.

I really liked the letters that they wrote to each other in the beginning. I liked how the story incorporated sign language, and I liked how Hugh was so accepting of Phoebe and her pregnancy.… (altro)

Georgiana is a dowager duchess with a 6 year old son. She has been a widow for a few years and she's very lonely.

Rhys has been trying to claw his way into the aristocracy so that his sisters can have the life that he thinks they deserve. He gathers secrets in order to get favors from powerful people.

I didn't care for this book. It's not that the book is BAD, the story just didn't hold my interest and the romance didn't click for me.

I tried to read it three separate times over the past few months. I finally finished it as an audiobook, even though I didn't like the narrator very much.… (altro)