Author: Janelle Daniels, Nichole Van, Rebecca Connolly
Series: Timeless Regency Collection #8
Genres: Historical Romance, Romance Anthology
Format: eBook
Pages: 241
Date: September 19, 2017
Publisher: Mirror Press
Three brand new Regency Romance novellas by Rebecca Connolly, Nichole Van, and Janelle Daniels
ON THE DUKE’S ERRAND by Rebecca Connolly
Lord David Chambers has one goal—to put his father’s Scotland estate to rights. Even if it means leaving in the middle of the London Season and avoiding the matchmakers. As the second son of a duke, David looks forward to facing the wilds of Scotland, and trying to make something of himself and prove his worth to his father. But David’s not prepared for the censure he receives from the local Scottish gentry, especially Ceana Shaw, the baronet’s daughter who not only mistakes him for the duke himself, she seems determined to think the worst of David.
VINGT-ET-UN | TWENTY-ONE by Nichole Van
Eliza Mail had found the perfect place to live out her days as a young widow, away from the pain of her past and lost love. Seemingly by chance, Eliza’s childhood neighbor, Liam Trebor, Duke of Chawton, comes to her village for a visit. Eliza hasn’t seen Liam in over five years, and his presence panics her. Will he reveal what he knows to her friends and neighbors, destroying her current life? Eliza must avoid Liam at all costs, but he seems equally determined to flush her out of hiding. What happens if Eliza’s past does not stay where it belongs… in her past?
I KISSED A DUKE by Janelle Daniels
Madeline Maybury will do anything to be invited into the inner circles of the ton. She takes on a challenge from a high society lady to kiss the Duke of Hargrave. When she finds Ethan alone and explains that she needs to kiss him, instead of turning her away, he’s amused. He also obliges. Madeline believes she can report back and achieve all of her ambitions. Instead, she’s given an even greater task. Once she accomplishes it, she realizes that the Duke of Hargrave is a very different man than she expected, and she’s in grave danger of falling in love.
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These stories sound fabulous! Would love to read and review them.
I rather enjoyed this timeless collection. Each story was fun to read. In the first one, On the Duke’s Errand I kept wondering why Ceana’s father didn’t say anything about David’s title/status and why David was comfortable allowing the mistake knowing that her father knew the truth. It seemed like there should have been a conversation between her father and David or something to allow that to go on so long.
The second, Twenty-One, had a lot of flashback scenes to tell the earlier story. I’m not always a fan of those but it worked okay for me once I finally had a grasp on what was going on in their lives. I did have to stop and go read the blurb on this one to get a grasp of what to expect. I was too confused at first. It struck me as a rather sad story despite the happy ending. A good number of wasted years with lots of heartache because of the selfishness of others. Glad there was some redemption at the end.
The third, I Kissed a Duke, was amusing to me. It seemed rather far fetched in some ways but why not? Ask to kiss a Duke and hope he agrees…anything to save the family. I would have liked to have this one as a full length novel I think. There was potential for a lot of fun stuff in there. We all know there are many amongst the ton with the “mean girls” attitude in all the regency books but I’ve never read one where there was such a strong “mean girls leader” so to speak. It seemed so “high school”. And that made me laugh.
Good fun, clean read.