The Duke is more accessible than the usual duchy fare, and has some amazing moments. The Courtship Dance is a bittersweet tale about love lost and found again. I also like how she sets up the characters for the final book of the series–without overshadowing the main plot as seems to be du jour among hist-ro series. Her books are also entertaining and not without substance–or a well written villainess. Camp has an easy writing style that makes it possible to identify with her characters. And Brom seems to have it out for the Duke, despite having the hots for his sister.Ĭlandestine meetings, hot sexual tension and madcap adventures ensue.
The Duke’s sister, Callie, finds herself inexplicably drawn to the mysterious Earl of Bromwell. (Sept.As with many of the series I read and review, I started this one somewhere in the middle with The Wedding Challenge. Camp is firmly at home here, enlivening the romantic quest between her engaging lovers with a set of believable and colorful secondaries. Meanwhile, Bromwell's twice-married older sister, the Lady Daphne, returns to society and plots to destroy Callie's reputation (because Rochford had refused to marry Daphne years earlier).
Francesca is torn, however, because she knows the source of enmity between the two men, which neither will speak of. Although Rochford orders Bromwell and Callie to stay away from each other, Callie grabs the reins and enlists the help of matchmaker Lady Francesca Houghston. When Callie is rescued, at a masked ball, from a drunken partygoer's unwanted advances, her hero turns out to be the mysterious earl of Bromwell, an enemy of Callie's brother. In Camp's delightful latest regency Matchmakers novel, the unmatched is beautiful 23-year-old Lady Calandra, whose overprotective brother and guardian, the formidable duke of Rochford, has intimidated all comers.
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