Posted March 8, 2023 by Marsha in Historical Romance, NetGalley, Regency Romance, Series, Sexual Content, Sourcebooks Casablanca / 0 Comments
Charlotte Deeping needs something to keep her occupied now that she’s back home after her first London season. She misses solving local intrigues with her school friends, but they’ve all gone off and gotten married.
Then Laurence Lindley, the Marquess of Glendarvon, comes for a visit and drops a mystery right into her lap.
When Charlotte’s brother makes her promise not to interrogate the marquess, she agrees.
But that only means she’ll have to find subtler ways to learn about the mysterious marquess and his past. The more time they spend together, the closer Charlotte gets to finding answers and to Laurence.
That is until Charlotte’s digging rouses an old vendetta, and Laurence has to delve into his own history to help the young lady he’s come to love.
Titles in The Duke’s Estates series include — The Duke Who Loved Me —♥— Earl on the Run —♥— Blame It on The Earl —♥— A Gentleman Ought to Know —♥— The Duke’s Best Friend —♥—
This is an adult 18+ story that may contain language, possible violence, and/or sexual situations geared to an adult audience.
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Tags: A Gentleman Ought to Know, Historical romance, Jane Ashford, NetGalley ARC, Regency Romance, The Duke's Estate #4
Posted February 24, 2022 by Marsha in Historical Romance, NetGalley, Regency Romance, Series, Sourcebooks Casablanca / 0 Comments
The missing Earl of Ferrington doesn’t want to be found…
Pulled from his comfortable life in Boston by agents who insist he’s the Earl of Ferrington, Jonathan Frederick Merrill―Jack to everyone else―arrives in London only to face a torrent of criticism from his great-grandmother. Angry and hurt, Jack resolves to have one look at his ancestral home, and then return to America.
Harriet Finch has been carried off to her wealthy grandfather’s country house, where she’s seething with rebellion. She spends her days pacing the grounds, fantasizing about a way to escape the life her grandfather has planned. There she meets an intriguing, handsome rogue. What better way to flout her grandfather’s rules than to flirt with a stranger he would never approve of? But when she learns Jack’s true identity, Harriet is stunned and furious at the deception! Her grandfather is delighted and insists she marry the new earl.
Can Harriet accept Jack’s promise to marry her when she wants nothing more than to be free and is Jack willing to pay the price of nobility if it means he’ll have to stay in England?
Titles in The Duke’s Estates series include — The Duke Who Loved Me – Earl on the Run – Blame It on the Earl –
This is an adult 18+ story that may contain language, possible violence, and/or sexual situations geared to an adult audience.
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Tags: Earl on the Run, Historical romance, Jane Ashford, The Duke's Estates #2
Posted August 31, 2019 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments
The Marquess of Chatton and his neighbor Fenella Fairclough have known each other all their lives.
They refused to marry each other years ago when their parents demanded it, and they won’t concede now―even if circumstances have brought these former enemies much closer than they ever could have anticipated…
Titles in The Way To A Lord’s Heart series include — Brave New Earl – A Lord Apart – How to Cross A Marquess –
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Tags: Historical romance, How to Cross A Marquess, Jane Ashford, Regency Romance, The Way To A Lord's Heart #3
Posted March 26, 2019 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments
Family secrets, an unlikely alliance—and a love neither expected…
After his parents’ sudden death, Daniel Frith, Viscount Whitfield, is struggling to unravel a web of chaotic family records. He is astonished to learn his father’s will contains a mysterious legacy: a house left to a complete stranger. He knows nothing about the beautiful Penelope Pendleton and he’s not sure he wants to…until she turns out to be a whiz at all those nasty tasks involved in estate administration…
Penelope has no idea why Rose Cottage was left to her. But it’s a godsend after her brother’s reckless actions disgraced her family. She had planned to stay out of Viscount Whitfield’s way, not grow ever closer to him. But when they discover how entwined their families really are, Daniel and Penelope must collaborate to avoid a scandal that reaches much higher than they could have guessed…
Titles in The Way To A Lord’s Heart series include — Brave New Earl – A Lord Apart – How to Cross A Marquess
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Tags: A Lord Apart, Jane Ashford, Regency Romance, The Way To A Lord's Heart #2
Posted November 27, 2018 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance / 0 Comments
Gwendeline Gregory doesn’t know what to think when she encounters the dashing Alex St. Audley, Earl of Merryn.
She’s in over her head in London Society, trying to fend off a scoundrel who will stop at nothing to ruin her.
On the brink of a devastating scandal, the earl arrives just when she needs him most.
But are his motivations trustworthy? And can he avert ruin for both of them?
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Tags: Earl to the Rescue, Jane Ashford, Regency Romance, reissue
Posted August 19, 2018 by Marsha in Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments
An Earl mired in melancholy is no match for a determined woman…
Widower Benjamin Romilly, Earl of Furness, has given up hope of finding happiness. His wife died in childbirth five years ago, leaving him with a broken heart and a child who only reminds him of his loss.
Miss Jean Saunders is a cousin by marriage. She doted on Benjamin’s late Countess, and can’t bear it when she hears rumors that the Earl is too bereaved to care for his young son. She arrives on the scene to evaluate his fitness as a father, and if necessary, to take his son away.
Jean’s sudden eruption into the Earl’s household simultaneously infuriates and invigorates him. She may be the only person who can breathe life into his neglected home―and his aching heart…
Titles in The Way To A Lord’s Heart series include: Brave New Earl –
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Posted December 8, 2017 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments
They’re wrong for each other, for all the right reasons…
Lord Randolph Gresham has come to London for one reason only–to find a suitable wife. Verity Sinclair may be intelligent, beautiful, and full of spirit, but her father knows a secret about Randolph that makes her entirely unsuitable as his bride. Not right for him at all, never, not a chance.
Verity knows that Lord Randolph lives in a country parish, and she wants nothing more than to escape to town. He may be fascinating, attractive, rich, and the son of a duke, but she’ll never marry him, nor will she talk to him, flirt with him, walk with him, or dine with him. She’ll sing a duet with him, but only this one time, and only because everyone insists.
But one duet invariably leads to another.
Titles in The Duke’s Sons series include: Heir To The Duke – What The Duke Doesn’t Know – Lord Sebastian’s Secret -Nothing Like A Duke – The Duke Knows Best
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Tags: Jane Ashford, Regency Romance, The Duke Knows Best, The Duke's Sons #5
Posted January 3, 2017 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments
Proud. Cunning. Battle-hardened. Lord Sebastian Gresham is the epitome of military might and excellence. He’s wealthy. The son of a Duke. There’s just one problem: he can’t read. It’s a secret he’ll never tell, certainly not to his new bride-to-be.
Brilliant. Witty. Gorgeous. Lady Georgina Stane has always known she’d make the perfect bride, that is, if her eccentric family didn’t scare off every potential suitor from London to Bath. After carefully orchestrating a London season with her parents out of the picture, she secured an engagement to an impeccable gentleman. And when Lord Sebastian arrives at her family’s estate to meet her parents, she’s not about to let their antics ruin her perfect marriage.
But what happens when these two learn that some secrets aren’t so easy to keep?
Titles in The Duke’s Sons series include: Heir To The Duke – What The Duke Doesn’t Know – Lord Sebastian’s Secret
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Tags: Historical romance, Jane Ashford, Lord Sebastian's Secret, Regency Romance, The Duke's Sons #3
Posted September 28, 2016 by Marsha in Series / 0 Comments
Title: What The Duke Doesn’t Know
Series: The Duke’s Sons #2
Author: Jane Ashford
Genre: Regency Romance, Historical Romance
Published: September 6, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
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A proper English wife, or the freedom of the sea?
Lord James Gresham is the fifth son of the Duke of Langford, a captain in the Royal Navy, and at a loss for what to do next. He’s made his fortune; perhaps now he should find a proper wife and set up his nursery. But the sea calls to him, while his search for a wife leaves him uninspired. And then, a dark beauty with a heart for revenge is swept into his life.
He can’t have both, but he won’t give up either
Half-English, half-Polynesian Kawena Benson is out to avenge her father and reclaim a cache of stolen jewels. There’s nothing for James to do but protest his innocence and help Kawena search for the jewels, even though it turns his world upside down.
Titles in this series include: Heir To The Duke, What The Duke Doesn’t Know, Lord Sebastian’s Secret (Jan. 2017)
Read on for my thoughts on What The Duke Doesn’t Know. No true spoilers, promise.
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Posted January 10, 2016 by Marsha in Series / 0 Comments
Title: Heir To The Duke
Series: The Duke’s Sons
Author: Jane Ashford
Genre: Regency Romance
Published: January 5, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 3 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:
Nathaniel Gresham, the handsome Viscount Hargove, lives a life devoted to familial duty. As his father’s eldest son, Nathaniel’s identity remains the “heir to the Duke of Langford.” But this quiet, restrained life changes the minute he marries sweet Lady Violet Devere.
Oppressed by her family all her life, Violet is longing for her marriage vows to be spoken. Though her arranged marriage to Nathaniel was not a match made for love, they’re both looking forward to the comparative freedom of married life. And Violet is determined to show Nathaniel how to enjoy it, both in and out of the bedroom.
Read on for my thoughts on Heir To The Duke. No true spoilers, promise.
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Posted October 16, 2015 by Marsha in Series / 0 Comments
Title: The Bargain
Series: The Duke’s Sons prequel
Author: Jane Ashford
Genre: Historical, Regency Romance
Published: Reissued 2014, Original 1997
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:
A scientifically minded nobleman:
Lord Alan Gresham is the sixth son of the Duke of Langford and, as such, has been allowed to remain at Oxford to pursue his scientific studies. When the prince regent asks him to debunk the “ghost” of a dead actress haunting Carlton House, he cannot refuse, and is forced back to the Society he deplores. But upon meeting the daughter of the alleged ghost, his calm, logical investigation is disrupted.
Learns the breathless chemistry of desire:
Ariel Harding doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she’s determined to investigate this haunting. Her mother recently committed suicide, and Ariel is desperate to find the reason. She’ll work with Alan because he has access to Prinny’s resources, but she never dreamed she’d make a perilous bargain with a man who’s as maddeningly arrogant as he is confoundedly attractive..
Read on for my thoughts on The Bargain. No true spoilers, promise.
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Tags: Historical romance, Jane Ashford, Regency Romance, The Bargain, The Duke's Sons prequel