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The Earl of Hawthorne, Thorne, is a notorious rake. So when the house across his back garden comes on the market, he buys it. It will be perfect to stow a mistress and with his own backyard hugging it, no one will know of his comings and goings.
Lady Anne Keighley is a young and beautiful widow, who was left with a large inheritance that is bringing out all of the fortune hunters. Anne has no desire to marry again, so she beseeches Thorne to ruin her so she can be alone and have control of her own money.
What she didn't count on, nor him, was falling in love with one another. So, Anne moves in with Thorne, and with the house empty, Anne offers it to her childhood friend, Felicity.
Felicity is determined to have a child with Lord Colford, whose brother had ruined her and then passed away. Even though she believes Richard is married, she has set her cap on him to give her a child. But passion sizzles and love blooms, marriage or no marriage.
Thorne's eighteen year old ward, Georgiana, is trying to escape an arranged marriage. Thorne puts her at the Mistress House. With the arrival of Thorne's cousin, Lord Julian Silsby, who is also trying to escape an arranged marriage, things heat up. Especially when Georgiana approaches him about schooling her in how to become a mistress.
The Mistress House is a delightful regency romance, with the Mistress House the common denominator for all three connected romances. Leigh's characters are vibrant, fresh, and fiesty, with her Lords handsome and brimming with sexuality. The love scenes are sizzling hot!! Your dance card will be full with these sensual stories, but you will be extremely satisfied. A highly recommended romantic read!
Lady Anne Keighley is a young and beautiful widow, who was left with a large inheritance that is bringing out all of the fortune hunters. Anne has no desire to marry again, so she beseeches Thorne to ruin her so she can be alone and have control of her own money.
What she didn't count on, nor him, was falling in love with one another. So, Anne moves in with Thorne, and with the house empty, Anne offers it to her childhood friend, Felicity.
Felicity is determined to have a child with Lord Colford, whose brother had ruined her and then passed away. Even though she believes Richard is married, she has set her cap on him to give her a child. But passion sizzles and love blooms, marriage or no marriage.
Thorne's eighteen year old ward, Georgiana, is trying to escape an arranged marriage. Thorne puts her at the Mistress House. With the arrival of Thorne's cousin, Lord Julian Silsby, who is also trying to escape an arranged marriage, things heat up. Especially when Georgiana approaches him about schooling her in how to become a mistress.
The Mistress House is a delightful regency romance, with the Mistress House the common denominator for all three connected romances. Leigh's characters are vibrant, fresh, and fiesty, with her Lords handsome and brimming with sexuality. The love scenes are sizzling hot!! Your dance card will be full with these sensual stories, but you will be extremely satisfied. A highly recommended romantic read!
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The characters are enjoyable and the setting and time period wonderfully described, but this is really 3 short stories squeezed together rather than one novel. I'm generally pretty good at the "suspension of disbelief" but I had some trouble with this one. A regency miss didn't consider the fact that an out of wedlock pregnancy would render her unsuitable to her social circle until after she had sex? Seriously? Also, I like full length romance because it gives some time for the characters to fall in love before having sex. The short story nature of this work has them jumping into bed a little quickly for my tastes.
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This is the second in a series. The first book "Just one season in London" was very good and I was looking forward to seeing more of those characters. "The Mistress House" takes place in the same place but the people I fell in love with were in the background of three different stories, each about 100 pages long, built around one house. Well written and researched, kept me turning the pages.
