"An exciting Regency romance"

In 1816 Sarah Killian is shocked to learn her sixteen year old brother William ran away from his school. She travels to London to find work as a governess and to locate her errant sibling. She asks her relative Lady Mountheath for temporary shelter, but the odious woman puts her through a ringer before reluctantly accepting her impoverished relative as an employee. Only luck in terms of accidentally meeting Lord Mountheath keeps her out of the downstairs.

Lord Peter Northrup assists Sarah on her way to asking Mountheath for shelter, but encounters her again at a social event. He likes her instantly though he hides his true self from her and the ton by pretending to be a peacock. Peter is surprised to learn that the arrest of the traitorous Black Bishop apparently means that the Robin Hood activities of the Saint of Seven Dials are over as the same man did both. As Sarah and Peter become better acquainted they fall in love and the Saint of Seven Dials still steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Peter must find the felon, but what will happen if he does unmask the thief who currently is his beloved Sarah trying to keep William from a life of crime?

WICKEDLY YOURS is an exciting Regency romance that stars two delightful lead protagonists who readers will appreciate,. Though how Sarah becomes the latest Robin Hood like thief is not adequately explained, her adventures and her fear of her beloved finding the truth make Brenda Hiatt's tale into a fine read.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 15, 2003