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Historical romance author Theresa Romain pursued an impractical education that allowed her to read everything she could get her hands on. She then worked for universities and libraries, where she got to read even more. Eventually she started writing, too. She lives with her family in the Midwest.
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Kiltsandswords
on October 7, 2014
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A Season for Desire
The story begins with Giles and Richard Rutherford being pressed into helping stop the runaway Lady Audrina. Her family suspects she is eloping with a bounder. Richard readily agrees as he lives for adventure. Giles, his son, is less inclined to help, but nonetheless they will help if they happen upon the pair.
It turns out that Audrina is not eloping by choice. David Llewellyn has actually drugged her, kidnapped her and is heading for Scotland to marry her for her dowry. It doesn’t help matters that she has given him her virginity in a pique of rebellion. She realized after that it was the adventure and scandalous nature of their liaison that thrilled her - not the man.
They are stopped at the Goose and Gauntlet in York. Her father, mother and Lady Irving have appeared as well. Her father the Earl is disgusted with her behaviour and banishes her from the family home until after her sister’s splendid wedding to the Duke of Walpole over Christmas. Unless she comes back engaged to a respectable man, she is to be buried away and not to cause scandal that would give the proper Duke a reason to cry off the best match five sisters have managed to make.
Hurt and spurned by her family, she is thrown in with the Rutherford’s and Lady Irving. The Rutherford’s are on a specific mission in England. They hail from Philadelphia and have come to England to find jewel treasures that the late Lady Beatrix hid before she eloped with Richard to a new life in America. Giles is reluctant to join this adventure, but comes along to keep tabs on his thrill seeking widowed father. Giles is not the typical English man that Audrina would be in the company of. He has worked in trade, is not titled (although the grandson of a Marques) and plans to continue to live a life of work.Read more ›
The story begins with Giles and Richard Rutherford being pressed into helping stop the runaway Lady Audrina. Her family suspects she is eloping with a bounder. Richard readily agrees as he lives for adventure. Giles, his son, is less inclined to help, but nonetheless they will help if they happen upon the pair.
It turns out that Audrina is not eloping by choice. David Llewellyn has actually drugged her, kidnapped her and is heading for Scotland to marry her for her dowry. It doesn’t help matters that she has given him her virginity in a pique of rebellion. She realized after that it was the adventure and scandalous nature of their liaison that thrilled her - not the man.
They are stopped at the Goose and Gauntlet in York. Her father, mother and Lady Irving have appeared as well. Her father the Earl is disgusted with her behaviour and banishes her from the family home until after her sister’s splendid wedding to the Duke of Walpole over Christmas. Unless she comes back engaged to a respectable man, she is to be buried away and not to cause scandal that would give the proper Duke a reason to cry off the best match five sisters have managed to make.
Hurt and spurned by her family, she is thrown in with the Rutherford’s and Lady Irving. The Rutherford’s are on a specific mission in England. They hail from Philadelphia and have come to England to find jewel treasures that the late Lady Beatrix hid before she eloped with Richard to a new life in America. Giles is reluctant to join this adventure, but comes along to keep tabs on his thrill seeking widowed father. Giles is not the typical English man that Audrina would be in the company of. He has worked in trade, is not titled (although the grandson of a Marques) and plans to continue to live a life of work.Read more ›
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With the holiday season just two months away, the avalanche of Christmas-themed romance releases is almost upon us. I'm glad the first one of the bunch I've chanced to pick up was the latest installment of Holiday Pleasure series. Much like the previous books, it has just enough intrigue to keep things interesting without taking the spotlight off the romance or the feeling of Christmas. After all, what better to bring a couple - or two - together than a treasure hunt?
The last thing the hero wants is to spend holidays across the ocean from his siblings. But, suspecting that he inherited his mother's debilitating arthritis, he wants to tie-up all loose ends before the disease incapacitates him. He accompanies his father on his trip to England, looking for his mother's lost diamonds, even though he considers it a wild goose chase. Little does he know that the quest would become a turning point in his life. In exchange for a clue to further their search, the heroine's father solicits their help to keep his rebellious daughter out of London.
All the heroine wanted was to be noticed for herself, outside of her prescribed role as a commodity for the Marriage Mart. She definitely got more than she bargained for. After her father uses two Americans to foil her abduction, he orders her to spend Christmas in the company of strangers in a drafty castle in the middle of snow-covered Yorkshire. And what initially seems like a dismal holiday becomes an adventure to shape the rest of her life.
This story can be read as a standalone, even though a few characters from previous novels make cameo appearances.Read more ›
The last thing the hero wants is to spend holidays across the ocean from his siblings. But, suspecting that he inherited his mother's debilitating arthritis, he wants to tie-up all loose ends before the disease incapacitates him. He accompanies his father on his trip to England, looking for his mother's lost diamonds, even though he considers it a wild goose chase. Little does he know that the quest would become a turning point in his life. In exchange for a clue to further their search, the heroine's father solicits their help to keep his rebellious daughter out of London.
All the heroine wanted was to be noticed for herself, outside of her prescribed role as a commodity for the Marriage Mart. She definitely got more than she bargained for. After her father uses two Americans to foil her abduction, he orders her to spend Christmas in the company of strangers in a drafty castle in the middle of snow-covered Yorkshire. And what initially seems like a dismal holiday becomes an adventure to shape the rest of her life.
This story can be read as a standalone, even though a few characters from previous novels make cameo appearances.Read more ›
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VINE VOICE on October 7, 2014
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This book is so much more than Audrina husband hunting and Giles treasure hunting. It starts out seeming like a very predictable historical romance but it becomes not just a romance of Audrina and Giles, not just a treasure hunt, but a mystery and another romance between two unlikely side characters. Theresa Romain has intertwined these three sub-plots seamlessly and with consummate skill. She did leave me wondering about the lives of two other side characters and if there could be another book with their story. There are some surprises and twists along the way and all of this lends itself to a can't-put-down page turner. I highly recommend this book.
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TOP 500 REVIEWER on October 10, 2014
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I’m always up for a foray into the Regency Era and Theresa Romain offers a lovely diversion in her Season for Desire. A story that blends the Christmas theme with a decades old family mystery involving puzzle boxes, this is a light and loosely interpreted romance.
One of my HUGE pet peeves in historical romances is language use; I can overlook some of the social conventions being tested, and I can even let go of a rigid application to the time period, within reason. Just as I wouldn’t expect hair straighteners, hybrid-vehicles, radio music or internet. I DO expect language to fit and flow, flawlessly. Most jarring in this story is misuse of language and phrases not in use at the time, or Christmas Carols not yet written. Each time one of these appeared, I was ripped from the story, halting all progress and disturbing my flow. And every reader will tell you that flow for a reader is all important to being able to just lose yourself in a book – the best part about reading fiction.
To the good: the characters in this story were wonderful. A ginger-haired, freckle-faced hero is an anomaly in romance, and Giles is wonderfully portrayed as the eldest child, taking responsibility for everyone, even when not needed. Audrina was a touch on the spoilt side, acting out because she felt a need to rebel against her demanding and controlling father, but with no real malice or ill-intent. Her worst flaw was her heedlessness to consequence as she bumbles through to find a path pleasing to her. These two were so very well-matched that there wasn’t the usual angst and push-pull in these relationships, they just were suited well and accepted the fact as a given: their relationship was sweet and honest, with tons of giving and caring on all sides.Read more ›
One of my HUGE pet peeves in historical romances is language use; I can overlook some of the social conventions being tested, and I can even let go of a rigid application to the time period, within reason. Just as I wouldn’t expect hair straighteners, hybrid-vehicles, radio music or internet. I DO expect language to fit and flow, flawlessly. Most jarring in this story is misuse of language and phrases not in use at the time, or Christmas Carols not yet written. Each time one of these appeared, I was ripped from the story, halting all progress and disturbing my flow. And every reader will tell you that flow for a reader is all important to being able to just lose yourself in a book – the best part about reading fiction.
To the good: the characters in this story were wonderful. A ginger-haired, freckle-faced hero is an anomaly in romance, and Giles is wonderfully portrayed as the eldest child, taking responsibility for everyone, even when not needed. Audrina was a touch on the spoilt side, acting out because she felt a need to rebel against her demanding and controlling father, but with no real malice or ill-intent. Her worst flaw was her heedlessness to consequence as she bumbles through to find a path pleasing to her. These two were so very well-matched that there wasn’t the usual angst and push-pull in these relationships, they just were suited well and accepted the fact as a given: their relationship was sweet and honest, with tons of giving and caring on all sides.Read more ›
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