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Earl Interrupted ( The Daring Marriages #10)   by Amanda Forester                              Quite an unexpected Regency romance with a pirate Lord and a young heiress fleeing a nasty step relatives. I quite enjoyed it even though it took me so long to read. Emma St. James  is no shrinking violet and it seems her undeterred faith and her willingness to take action keeps her one step ahead of a nasty fate. Dare,  Captain Robert Ashton, Earl of Darington,  is a man used to action and mincing about drawing rooms looking for a suitable wife is some thing he's not suited to. Glowering and stoney silences are more his  forté  in these gruelling exercises. All of course add to his reputation as the Pirate Earl. 'As a child, Emma had dreamed of her wedding. What little girl did not?' Emma's prospects now seem so different as she sets forth to be a bride to an u...

The Highlander's Bride (Highland Trouble ) by Amanda Forester   There's more to Marie Colette than meets the eye as Gavin Patrick comes to know. In many ways Colette is the original little girl lost who comes through in a resounding manner. Gavin has to swallow his disappointment and pledge to escort Colette and her hapless women to Scotland into the arms of her waiting fiancé. That proves to be no easy task. Colette grows into the woman she is meant to be as together she and Gavin escape past the English lines and on into their respective fates. A satisfying medieval romance with an stalwart, trustworthy hero and a winsome heroine who responds to the unusual situations she faces with courage and openness. A NetGalley ARC ****

A Winter Wedding (Marriage Mart #3) by  Amanda Forester  International plots abound! Traitors are sought! Perilous times are nigh! Napoleon's spy master is lurking. Yet the marriage game continues and Penelope Rose is in the thick of both games. Her 'nom de plume', Madame X is called into more matchmaking for the ton, including the Duke of Marchford.  Until now no task has been too difficult. As companion to Antonia Lockton the Dowager Duchess of Marchford, Pen also assists the duchess's grandson the Duke of Marchford in his work as a spy for crown and country. This time Marchford wants her help in both capacities, to become his bride and avoid the avid interest of the flocking debutantes and to assist him with a plot that sets the crown and London itself in peril. Pen wants more than Marchford is prepared to offer on the personal level, yet she thrills to the chase with both. And then there's Marchford's attitude towards Christmas! But a wooing he will...