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Summary: very enjoyable
Review: I found this a very pleasant little read, easy to finish in an afternoon and written well enough that I found myself quite touched by the emotions between the main characters. Roly is a delight, also.a very well written regency and with the touch of humor that ms. Mack inserts so subtly into her books.
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Summary: very enjoyable
Review: I found this a very pleasant little read, easy to finish in an afternoon and written well enough that I found myself quite touched by the emotions between the main characters. Roly is a delight, also. a very well written regency and with the touch of humor that ms. Mack inserts so subtly into her books.
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Summary: Implausible beginning, but better later on
Review: Max Waring has good reason to enter into a mock engagement: to save face when he must meet his stepmother (formerly his fiancée) and his father again after four years of soldiering. Abigail Monroe's reason for agreeing to masquerade as his new fiancée--to get back a family heirloom of negligible worth--is not quite so compelling. The fact that the pair of make-believe lovers didn't seem to worry much about the potential destruction of their reputations in this Regency tale detracts a great deal from its authenticity. Max remains attracted to the fair Felicity far too long, even after he realizes that he was mistaken in her true character. His love for Abigail, on the other hand, seems more of an afterthought. And I could not help but feel sorry for his father for having such a spiteful wife; if it were truly necessary for him to have betrayed his son in such a way, how much more satisfactory if it could have been for true love on BOTH sides! One has to feel regretful that future family gatherings will be less than warm for the foreseeable future.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing
Review: Max Waring, who lost his fiance to his father, returns home after the wars. Max enlisted after this betrayal by his father. His ex-fiance, now his stepmother, the beautiful Felicity, invites him home to visit this father and new stepsister at the family home. Why would he go to visit these people? He goes but feels he must bring along his own fiance, Abigail Monroe, as a buffer for his feelings for Felicity and his father. Abigail is not really his fiance, just playing this role to get back an item that Max has possession of. Isn't this stretching it a bit? This book might make me give up reading Regencies for good. If your parent steals your fiance, would you be pleased at visiting their home and saying, hey, it's okay? No. This man, Max, went to war to get away from the situation and could have been killed! As a parent, to do that to your child, well, was pathetic and so wrong that how could it be forgotten. Almost as pathetic as the "romance" between silly Abigail and Max. This was poorly done. In fact, the book was poorly done and I usually like this author.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Max Waring, who lost his fiance to his father, returns home after the wars. Max enlisted after this betrayal by his father. His ex-fiance, now his stepmother, the beautiful Felicity, invites him home to visit this father and new stepsister at the family home. Why would he go to visit these people? He goes but feels he must bring along his own fiance, Abigail Monroe, as a buffer for his feelings for Felicity and his father. Abigail is not really his fiance, just playing this role to get back an item that Max has possession of. Isn't this stretching it a bit? This book might make me give up reading Regencies for good. If your parent steals your fiance, would you be pleased at visiting their home and saying, hey, it's okay? No. This man, Max, went to war to get away from the situation and could have been killed! As a parent, to do that to your child, well, was pathetic and so wrong that how could it be forgotten. Almost as pathetic as the "romance" between silly Abigail and Max. This was poorly done. In fact, the book was poorly done and I usually like this author.
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Summary: Scent or Scandel?
Review: Twins always lead to twin trouble... and the twins in the Gold Scent bottle are no exception. A young man reaches his majority and gambles away money he does not posses, to make good his debt he gives a handsome army officer his sister's prized scent bottle... The determined young lady breaks into the gentleman's home and tries to get her bottle back, instead she falls headlong into a thickening plot of deceit and intrigue. The gentleman has the young girl pretend to be his fiancee at a house party given by his step-mother (AKA his former fiancee!) What ensues is a sweet and somewhat... implausible (but fun!) tumble deeper into lies and of course, love.
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Summary: Scent or Scandel?
Review: Twins always lead to twin trouble... and the twins in the Gold Scent bottle are no exception. A young man reaches his majority and gambles away money he does not posses, to make good his debt he gives a handsome army officer his sister's prized scent bottle... The determined young lady breaks into the gentleman's home and tries to get her bottle back, instead she falls headlong into a thickening plot of deceit and intrigue. The gentleman has the young girl pretend to be his fiancee at a house party given by his step-mother (AKA his former fiancee!) What ensues is a sweet and somewhat... implausible (but fun!) tumble deeper into lies and of course, love.
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