Daily Archives: August 22, 2015

It has been many years since I have read a book by Ms. MacKenzie. I was really pleased to discover that her writing had improved over the years and that issues the last book (rape scene) was not present in this story.

The book is purportedly a Regency Romance but it really is more of a comic romance. The Duke of Hart is under a curse that forces him back to his home for the first time in many years. The curse is that he won’t live to see his male heir born, so he is determined not to marry. He meets Miss Isabelle Catherine Hutting (Cat to her friends), the vicar’s daughter who has sworn herself to spinsterhood. The sparks begin to fly and the outcome is pretty predictable from that point on.

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