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"Another entertaining adventure in the Danvers family saga."
Reviewed by Suan Wilson
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted March 10, 2004

Spinster Rebecca Tate supports her fey uncle by anonymously penning novels featuring the daring Miss Darby. Society's debutantes have embraced her novels, making the fictional Miss Darby someone they wish to emulate. Unfortunately, Rebecca has her heroine vowing off marriage. Society's matrons are not amused and do not tolerate their Read more...

"Delightful humorous Regency romantic suspense"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 15, 2004

With Napoleon out of commission 1817 should be a very cheerful upbeat season for the Ton, but the debutants declare a marital revolution to the shock of their mothers. The young ladies refuse to marry emulating their heroine Miss Darby, literary star of four action adventure novels. Feeling Read more...

Summary

Rebecca will have to take a page from her own book to keep the dashing Rafe Danvers from spoiling her success. But how does one play hard-to-get with a man one cannot resist? Rebecca Tate never intended to cause a revolution with her notoriously popular Miss Darby novels, merely to earn enough to support herself and her ailing uncle. But now it seems every eligible debutante in London is emulating her spunky heroine and refusing to marry...ever! Still, Rebecca's enjoying her newfound success as Miss Darby's anonymous creator, and she's not about to let anyone interfere -- not even the rakishly appealing Raphael Danvers. Having survived the perils of war and espionage, Rafe is less than thrilled by a disgruntled society matron's wish that he unmask the unknown author and halt the scandalous scribblings. The assignment becomes more attractive, however, when the trail leads to the enticing Miss Tate. Suddenly the dashing adventurer can't get enough of the charming troublemaker -- and her resorting to some rather Darbyesque trickery to distract him serves only to intensify his desire. But will a rogue's determined pursuit result in a happy romantic ending...or lead them both into a dangerous intrigue?