Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451181817 (0451181816)
ASIN: 0451181816
Publish date: 1994-12-01
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Historical Romance,
Category Romance,
Regency,
Regency Romance,
Traditional Regency,
Clean Romance,
Fiction,
Historical
Another superb Traditional Regency from Carla Kelly. The hero is to die for. The desperate trip to Gretna Green, crossing the Pennines into Scotland in the middle of winter, to evade the heroine's evil brother-in-law, is a true nail-biter. I would have preferred that the brother-in-law get more of a...
I enjoyed this historical romance. I liked the straight forward communication between main characters at the beginning. The heroines realistic attitude toward life was good too and the girls were adorable. Widow Roxanne's brother-in-law is after her so she rents a house on Lord Winn's property.
Wonderful, stirring, heartfelt romance, but too sad for me. The characters, the plot, the setting are all first-rate. The story, though it has a happy ending, has too much sadness in it, for repeated re-reading. Bits of the plot feel contrived, the second half of the book is not as strong as the fir...
12 years ago
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