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"MS. Quick's most charming and entertaining historical romantic investigative novels"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 1, 2005

In the latter part of Queen Victoria's reign, Miss Concordia Glade accepts a position at Aldwick Castle as headmistress to four teenaged orphan girls. She gradually becomes aware that her employers are up to no good especially when she overhears them talk about auctioning off the girls. The Read more...

"Delightful Victorian Adventure"
Reviewed by Linda Hurst
Posted August 14, 2005

In LIE BY MOONLIGHT Amanda Quick introduces us to Ambrose Wells and Concordia Glade, two characters who are so enjoyable I can only hope that we will meet them again in future Quick novels. Thank goodness the premise has been set up to allow for several more Read more...

New York Times-bestselling author Amanda Quick, called "an exceptional storyteller" by the Los Angeles Daily News, and "one of the best and brightest voices in the romance genre" by Booklist, presents a novel of thrilling historical romantic suspense, set in late Victorian England.

Summary

Welcome back to Late Victorian England—and meet the last Master of Vanza...

During an investigation into a woman's death, gentleman thief turned private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself at Aldwick Castle—and in the middle of chaos. The building is in flames. Men are dead. And a woman and four young girls are fleeing on horseback...

Concordia Glade has never met anyone like Ambrose Wells. He is bold, clever, and inscrutable—even to the perceptive gaze of a professional teacher such as herself. He is also her only hope to protect her pupils from the unscrupulous men who are after them, powerful, shadowy figures who will stop at nothing to get what they want...