Alicia Cameron

This is the last book in the Sisters of Castle Fortune series. There are ten sisters, all at risk of being sold off in marriage to the highest bidder by their greedy, thoughtless father, a baron, who is abetted by their nasty brother George. Marguerite, the identical twin sister of Leonora who married in the previous volume, has been deposited at the house of strangers because her father wants to save the cost of another London season and marry her off to Mr. Dysart, younger brother and heir of Sir Peregrine, a baronet. Mr. Dysart's first wife is dead, and his brother is dying. The compassionate, affectionate Marguerite secretly befriends Sir Peregrine, whose controlling wife has isolated him from friends and family. Something is very wrong on the Dysart estate and Marguerite is at risk.

In a house on the edge of the Dysart estate is the mysterious Mr Fairfax, who has rented the place for a shooting holiday. Margeurite came across Fairfax under another name when he saved her from a molester at an inn, where her father and brother had failed to protect her.

This is a fairly frothy romance due to the Marguerite's cheerful silliness and another thread involving a family friend, Sir Justin Faulkes, and a princess. Although Marguerite gets a bit wearing, I enjoyed the book. It's written in British English which is a very big plus for a book set in England.… (mer)

This is a sweet, squeaky-clean romance told in a fairy-tale cadence and traditional Regency tone. It’s kind of odd to read about a family that is so not close, especially since it is the first of a series - the unmarried sisters do not come off as sympathetic future heroines, and the married ones are so irrelevant to the story, I wonder why the characters even exist. This is rife with love triangles, which I ABHOR, and knocked it down at least a half star, but there was definitely some delicious angst, which I love, and an extremely dense hero, which I did not. over halfway through the book, he is still in love with the Other Woman, and at 80% he still thinks about the heroine as a sister... made it harder for me to buy their romance, but it is still pulled off, just (3.5 stars)… (mer)