Helpful Score: 4
I'm new to reading this author. I really enjoyed the lively conversation between the main characters.
Helpful Score: 1
Another one of my fav AQ books. This one is such a fun exciting read. You will love the way it turns out!
Helpful Score: 1
I enjoy Amanda Quick books because there is always a mystery as a central part of the story. I also appreciate the fact that the main character is truly an independent woman. FYI, Quick is a pen name for Jayne Ann Krentz.
Helpful Score: 1
A dazzling tale of a daring spinster who takes her cues from histrory's most legendary beauties.
Love Amamda Quick.
Love Amamda Quick.
Amanda Quick is one of the authors I always buy when a new book comes out. As usual, this was a good book!
Great book!
this was another must read! great dialogue between hero/heroine.
Okay. Could have been better.
Loved this story. A really fun and exciting read. Loved the strong women characters and how they make thier own way!
Great fun! Amanda Quick always delivers.
This was another good one from Quick.
When her Aunt falls victim to a blackmailer, Iphiginia Bright comes up with a plan. She comes to London posing as the mistress of the Earl of Masters who is out of town and rumored to be dead. She believes that the blackmailer knew both her aunt and the Earl. When the Earl, Marcus Cloud, hears about a mistress he has never met, he travels to London to check her out. Marcus finds Iphiginia beautiful and intriguing; but doesn't believe her wild story. But when a good friend of his is also being blackmailed by the same person, Marcus decides to help Iphiginia catch the culprit.
This older Amanda Quick title hasn't lost any of its charm. It has well developed characters with fun dialogue. The only drawback is the blackmailer is rather easy to pick out. Still I enjoyed this historical romance. My rating: 4.5 Stars.
This older Amanda Quick title hasn't lost any of its charm. It has well developed characters with fun dialogue. The only drawback is the blackmailer is rather easy to pick out. Still I enjoyed this historical romance. My rating: 4.5 Stars.
Another fun regency romance by Amanda Quick. Iphiginia Bright is trying to catch the person responsible for blackmailing her Aunt. To do this, she must move about "in society", so she takes on the persona of the mistress of the notorious Earl of Masters. She believes him to be dead (as was indicated by the blackmailer). Imagine her surprise when he shows up one night at a ball she is attending. He doesn't believe her at first about the blackmailing until the blackmailer targets one of his friends. Then, the two of them decide to work together to expose the blackmailer. Loved the interactions between the characters!
"A dazzling tale of a daring spinster who takes her cues from history's most legendary beauties--and transforms herself into the most exotic and exciting mistress London has ever known."
A great book!
A great book!
Iphiginia Bright poses as the latest paramour of the Earl of Masters, a man rumored to be dead. She comes face to face with Masters and finds herself in danger of losing her heart.
A dazzling tale of a daring spinster who takes her cues from history's most legendary beauties - and transforms herself into the most exotic and exciting mistress London has ever known.
[from the back cover] A dazzling take of a daring spinster who takes her cues from history's most legendary beauties--and transforms herself unto the most exotic and exciting mistress London has ever seen.
After a year of grand adventures touring the classical ruins of Italy and Greece, Iphiginia Bright returned to England to discover that the real excitement was at home. It seems that her Aunt Zoe has fallen victim to a sinister blackmailer and only Iphiginia can hope to stop the culprit before he can do more harm. Her plan is inspired: Imitating history's most legendary beauties--Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Aphrodite--the former schoolmistress will remake herself, and descend upon London Society as the dazzling mistress of Marcus Valerius Cloud, the infamous Earl of Masters. Rumors hint that the Earl has disappeared at the blackmailer's hands, and by posing as his unknown mistress, Iphiginia is convinced she can ferret out the villain. Overnight, Iphiginia is transformed into a vision with a host of eager admirers, including one she does not expect -- the Earl of Masters himself, who strides into a shimmering ballroom one evening to cooly reclaim his "mistress". He is everything they say he is... arrogant, attractive, devastatingly seductive, and Iphiginia can't help but be enthralled. But when Marcus agrees to play along with her charade, she doesn't know that the determined earl has plans of his own: to tease and tempt her, until the beautiful deceiver becomes more than his mistress in name only.
After a year of grand adventures touring the classical ruins of Italy and Greece, Iphiginia Bright returned to England to discover that the real excitement was at home. It seems that her Aunt Zoe has fallen victim to a sinister blackmailer and only Iphiginia can hope to stop the culprit before he can do more harm. Her plan is inspired: Imitating history's most legendary beauties--Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Aphrodite--the former schoolmistress will remake herself, and descend upon London Society as the dazzling mistress of Marcus Valerius Cloud, the infamous Earl of Masters. Rumors hint that the Earl has disappeared at the blackmailer's hands, and by posing as his unknown mistress, Iphiginia is convinced she can ferret out the villain. Overnight, Iphiginia is transformed into a vision with a host of eager admirers, including one she does not expect -- the Earl of Masters himself, who strides into a shimmering ballroom one evening to cooly reclaim his "mistress". He is everything they say he is... arrogant, attractive, devastatingly seductive, and Iphiginia can't help but be enthralled. But when Marcus agrees to play along with her charade, she doesn't know that the determined earl has plans of his own: to tease and tempt her, until the beautiful deceiver becomes more than his mistress in name only.
