Sunday, March 8, 2015

Ten of the best historical romance novels

Beverly Jenkins is the award-winning author of more than 30 novels, most recently Destiny's Captive. One of her ten favorite historical novels, shared at Publishers Weekly:
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

This is the great Chase at the top of her game. When hard-charging Jessica Trent travels to Paris to pry her nitwit brother Bertie from the clutches of Sebastian Ballister, aka the Marques of Dain, the last thing she expects is to be attracted to the notorious rake. Dain, whose tortured past is responsible for his arrogance and amoral ways, definitely doesn’t expect to be attracted to Bertie’s take-charge sister either. Yet attraction begets passion, which begets a very public scandal and a marriage to save Jessica’s reputation. The characters are full-bodied and evenly matched. The passion is to die for, and every romance reader I know has this book on their keeper shelf.
Read about the other entries on the list.

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