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"Terrific historical romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted December 23, 2004

In 1816 Duke Raphael Jourdain buys four rocking horses so that the orphan sisters that recently became his wards would not fight over toys like he and his brother used to do. He hires a nanny and four nursemaids to care for the children, whom he never met. Read more...

"Totally riveting Regency, eloquently written."
Reviewed by Suan Wilson
Posted January 10, 2005

The four daughters of a horse-mad Scottish viscount arrive at their guardian's home with four beautiful thoroughbred horses to be used as their dowries. Tess, the oldest, immediately warms to the slightly shabby and dissipated duke. Tired of worrying about the lack of money and her younger sister's inappropriate romance, Read more...

Summary

When you're the oldest daughter, you don't get to have any fun! Witty, orphaned Tess Essex faces her duty: marry well and marry quickly, so she can arrange matches for her three sisters -- beautiful Annabel, romantic Imogen and practical Josie.After all, right now they're under the rather awkward guardianshipof the perpetually tipsy Duke of Holbrook. But just whenshe begins to think that all might end well, one of her sisters boltswith a horse-mad young lord, and her own fiancé just plain runs away. Which leaves Tess contemplating marriage to the sort of man she wishes to avoid -- one of London's most infamous rakes. Lucius Felton is a rogue whose own mother considers him irredeemable! He's delicious, Annabel points out. And he's rich,Josie notes. But although Tess finally consents to marryhim, it may be for the worst reason of all. Absurd as she knows it to be, she may have fallen utterly in love...