Masquerade
with a Marquess
Regency
Romp, #3
by
Cerise DeLand
Published
March 17th 2016
Amazon
Digital Services LLC
Genre: Romance,
Historical Romance, Regency Romance
The
Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of Masquerade with a Marquess (Regency Romp, #3) . .
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Sophia di Contini has to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the things she holds dear to make a difference in her world around her. Posing as a maid can be tricky business and a little dangerous as she finds out. But it can also hold a great deal of pleasure as she is thrust back into the life of the one that got away. Or shall I say she walked away from. Victor Cameron has his life already full with prospects of strikes and picketing from the works in his various businesses and tenants. The last thing he needs was a woman. And not just any woman. The one.
Intrigue with a bit of suspense. This regency historical romance gave a bit more than your average read. There was bits a piece on the Napoleonic Wars and the siblings themselves. Thou not prominent in the story overall. It lead to good reading. Watching the rebuilding of their relationship, then to watch it fall away, and then to be built again was warm fuzzies.
I enjoyed the read and look forward to seeing more from Ms. DeLand and the Regency Romp series.
**This eBook was provided by NK
Author Services the author in exchange for an honest review.**
BLURB
Sophia
di Contini risks her life to sail to England alone and slip into the homes of
those she suspects stole priceless treasures from her family during the wars.
Discovered by Victor Cameron, she agrees to search for her art his way even
though she’ll live in his house, yearn for his touch, pine for his kisses….
Five years ago, Victor had to give up Sophia. Now he vows to keep her near him and to protect her from men who would destroy her. He’ll help her find her precious art even if he risks the chance she’ll steal his heart away…again.
Excerpt
London
December 23, 1819
December 23, 1819
“Do not wait for me, Lawton,” Victor Cameron told his elderly
coachman as he took the last step down from his carriage.
“You’ll freeze to death out here. Return in two hours.”
“Right you are, milord.” The servant bowed, hurried up to his
perch to grab the reins to the horses and ordered them off.
Victor flipped up the collar of his greatcoat against the snow
flurries, bounded up the stairs to his friend’s front door and dropped the
knocker.
“Good evening, my lord. Do come in.” Viscount Whiting’s butler
took Victor’s hat, coat and gloves, ever efficient, eyes cast down in
deference. “Lord Whiting receives in the front drawing room. The guests
assemble there. Supper will be served soon.”
“Thank you. Carson, isn’t it?” he asked of the butler whom he had
met only last week. The man was new in the employ of his friend Whiting.
“Yes, indeed, sir. Carson I am.” The man offered a broad smile at
the honor of having a lord recall his name.
“Good. No need to take me up. Informal tonight, aren’t we?”
“Very much so, my lord. Up the stairs and second door on the
right.”
“Has Lord Lansdowne arrived yet?” Victor wanted to catch a moment
with his step-brother Dray to discuss the impending restrictions on public
assembly. The two of them loathed the movement by many in Parliament to clamp
down on public demonstrations and make assemblies illegal. The meetings among
members of the House and Lords the past few days had been raucous and
disturbing to Victor.
“Yes, my lord. About an hour ago. He is with the others.”
“Thank you, Carson.” Victor turned toward the stairs, eager to see
both his step-brother Dray and his host.
Whiting was an old chum of Victor’s from years they’d spent
tracking spies during the wars. They shared much, including views on politics,
laborers’ wages and rights of men to assemble freely. Because peers were
sitting in the special session of Parliament due to the recent bread riots,
many of them had remained in London for the Christmas season. Whiting was given
to hosting elaborate parties during the Christmas season and he saw no reason
to break tradition because they worked long hours in Parliament. Tonight’s
event featured supper after the opera. Victor hadn’t attended the performance,
loathing the exaggerations of the actors, but with all the work he’d done on
his own estate to talk with his tenants to ensure their health and welfare, he
did welcome the diversion of a party. No more jovial place than at Whiting’s.
He climbed the stairs, the voices of the guests floating out to
him and making quite a din. Good heavens. Exactly how many people had Whiting
invited?
Author Info
An
award-winning author of more than two dozen romances and mysteries, Cerise
DeLand creates heroes readers crave. Cerise has met many men in her worldwide
travels and created the best of the best from all the wonderful places she’s
lived and visited. Today, she lives–and writes–in wild west Texas where a
never-ending stream of cowboys, vaqueros, para-military types and diplomats
stroll into town and fuel her imagination for red hot affairs.
Author
Links:
Regency Romp series:
Lady
Varney’s Risqué Business – Regency Romp,
#1
Rendezvous
with a Duke – Regency Romp, #2
Masquerade
with a Marquess – Regency Romp #3
Interlude
with a Baron – Regency Romp, #4
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