The Secrets of a Courtesan Mills Boon MB eBook Nicola Cornick
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All's fair in love and matrimony in Nicola Cornick's wildly romantic new series that introduces the ladies of Fortune's Folly–spirited heiresses who are more than a match for society's most dashing rogues!
The epitome of privilege and power, the handsome Duke of Welburn sets all the ladies' hearts aflutter as he strides into the village of Fortune's Folly. For Eve Nightingale this fluttering is a mixture of wariness and wonder. Once his glittering society mistress–caught up in his glamorous world by day and tangled in his bedsheets by night–she is now no more than a penniless yet proud shopkeeper.
It's a world Eve can't go back to–she has secrets to keep. But this determined duke seems very keen on unravelling them. . . .
The Secrets of a Courtesan Mills Boon MB eBook Nicola Cornick
The secrets of a courtesan" is set in the fictional Yorkshire village of Fortune's Folly in April 1809, three months before the prologue of "Confessions of a Duchess," which is the first of the three hysterically funny novels in the "Brides of Fortune" series.The heroine, Eve Nightingale, is the village pawnbroker, a beautiful and apparently very respectable woman who has lived in the village for five years. Unknown to the residents of Fortune's Folly, however, she has a mystery past, having been the mistress of a duke. For reasons which I don't want to give away to avoid spoiling the story, she ran away from him, adopted a new name on her arrival in Yorkshore, and used her savings to set herself up in business. Her shop does not make as much money as it should, because she is too kind to her customers, but she is managing to hold body and soul together - and then suddenly the Duke of Welburn, her former lover, appears in the village ...
Alistair Rowarth, Duke of Welburn, has tried unsuccessfully to forget the mistress with whom he had once been deeply in love and to whom he had even offered marriage, but who had run away and left him. He was astonished when the home secretary asks him to call on her, as part of his scheme to catch a notorious criminal.
Almost all the major characters of the "Brides of Fortune" series make an appearance, though usually just a cameo, in this relatively short novel. It doesn't have the same quality of humour, although there are one or two quite funny scenes.
For reference, the author has now written five related stories set mostly in Yorkshire between 1805 and 1810 with largely the same cast of characters, which are
1) "Unmasked" (1805)
Nick Falconer and Dexter Anstruther are despatched to Yorkshire from London to try to catch a gang of female highwaymen: both Nick and Dexter find more than they bargained for.
2) This story, "The Secrets of a courtesan" (April 1809)
3) "The Confessions of a Duchess (Brides of Fortune)" (July 1809)
The greedy squire of Fortune's Folly in Yorkshire turns the village into "a veritable marriage mart" by reactivating a feudal law requiring every single woman in the village to marry or pay the squire half their fortune. Most of the fortune-hunters in Britain immediately converge on the village looking for a wife.
The Home secretary, who is still on the track of certain criminals, decides to plant three of his best agents among the fortune hunters, one of them being Dexter Anstruther. He has scarcely arrived when he has to rescue the woman to whom he had lost his heart four years before ...
4) "The Scandals of an Innocent (Brides of Fortune)" (Feb 1810)
Lord Miles Vickery, one of the government agents who had been sent to Fortune's folly the year before, has inherited the title of Marquis of Drum and with it vast debts. His only hope of solvency is to marry an heiress. Unfortunately Alice Lister, the heiress to whom he is strongly attracted, has good reason to consider him a scoundrel. But that isn't going to stop him ...
5) "The Undoing of a Lady (Brides of Fortune)" (May 1810)
Lady Elizabeth Scarlett, half sister of the greedy squire of Fortune's Folly, has been constantly getting herself - and her friends - into scrapes since she was a little girl. But nothing like the scrape she gets into at the start of this book when she tries to kidnap her childhood friend on the eve of his wedding to save him from what she thinks would be a loveless marriage ...
All five stories are entertaining, the fictional village of Fortune's Folly (which the author has said was mainly inspired by Harrogate) is beautifully described, and the characters are wonderful.
PEDANT ALERT! If Amazon ever introduce a Gold medal for "Nit-picking" what I am about to write will probably be the first entry, but I can't resist pointing out one slight error in the generally excellent background research.
One of the real historical characters in the series, who keeps sending people to Yorkshire to try to catch various criminals in "Unmasked," in this book, and in "Confessions of a Duchess", is the Home secretary.
Robert Jenkinson, who was Home Secretary from 1804 to 1806 and from 1807 to 1809, with a spell as Leader of the Opposition in between, and was later Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, held this position at the time of all three books.
In "Unmasked" the author correctly names him as Home Secretary in 1805, referring to him as Lord Hawkesbury, which was indeed his title in that year.
In "Confessions of a Duchess" the author again refers to him as Home Secretary in September 1809 which is - just about - correct. That was the last full month of his second stint in the job. She accurately refers to him as Lord Liverpool, the title under which he is usually remembered today, and which he had by this time inherited.
In this book, the author rightly names him as Home Secretary in April 1809, but alas, wrongly refers to him by the older title of Lord Hawkesbury. As his father, the first Earl of Liverpool, died in December 1808, by the time of this book he was the second Earl of Liverpool.
This very minor error aside, the background research is good and the book is entertaining.
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The Secrets of a Courtesan Mills Boon MB eBook Nicola Cornick Reviews
The secrets of a courtesan" is set in the fictional Yorkshire village of Fortune's Folly in April 1809, three months before the prologue of "Confessions of a Duchess," which is the first of the three hysterically funny novels in the "Brides of Fortune" series.
The heroine, Eve Nightingale, is the village pawnbroker, a beautiful and apparently very respectable woman who has lived in the village for five years. Unknown to the residents of Fortune's Folly, however, she has a mystery past, having been the mistress of a duke. For reasons which I don't want to give away to avoid spoiling the story, she ran away from him, adopted a new name on her arrival in Yorkshore, and used her savings to set herself up in business. Her shop does not make as much money as it should, because she is too kind to her customers, but she is managing to hold body and soul together - and then suddenly the Duke of Welburn, her former lover, appears in the village ...
Alistair Rowarth, Duke of Welburn, has tried unsuccessfully to forget the mistress with whom he had once been deeply in love and to whom he had even offered marriage, but who had run away and left him. He was astonished when the home secretary asks him to call on her, as part of his scheme to catch a notorious criminal.
Almost all the major characters of the "Brides of Fortune" series make an appearance, though usually just a cameo, in this relatively short novel. It doesn't have the same quality of humour, although there are one or two quite funny scenes.
For reference, the author has now written five related stories set mostly in Yorkshire between 1805 and 1810 with largely the same cast of characters, which are
1) "Unmasked" (1805)
Nick Falconer and Dexter Anstruther are despatched to Yorkshire from London to try to catch a gang of female highwaymen both Nick and Dexter find more than they bargained for.
2) This story, "The Secrets of a courtesan" (April 1809)
3) "The Confessions of a Duchess (Brides of Fortune)" (July 1809)
The greedy squire of Fortune's Folly in Yorkshire turns the village into "a veritable marriage mart" by reactivating a feudal law requiring every single woman in the village to marry or pay the squire half their fortune. Most of the fortune-hunters in Britain immediately converge on the village looking for a wife.
The Home secretary, who is still on the track of certain criminals, decides to plant three of his best agents among the fortune hunters, one of them being Dexter Anstruther. He has scarcely arrived when he has to rescue the woman to whom he had lost his heart four years before ...
4) "The Scandals of an Innocent (Brides of Fortune)" (Feb 1810)
Lord Miles Vickery, one of the government agents who had been sent to Fortune's folly the year before, has inherited the title of Marquis of Drum and with it vast debts. His only hope of solvency is to marry an heiress. Unfortunately Alice Lister, the heiress to whom he is strongly attracted, has good reason to consider him a scoundrel. But that isn't going to stop him ...
5) "The Undoing of a Lady (Brides of Fortune)" (May 1810)
Lady Elizabeth Scarlett, half sister of the greedy squire of Fortune's Folly, has been constantly getting herself - and her friends - into scrapes since she was a little girl. But nothing like the scrape she gets into at the start of this book when she tries to kidnap her childhood friend on the eve of his wedding to save him from what she thinks would be a loveless marriage ...
All five stories are entertaining, the fictional village of Fortune's Folly (which the author has said was mainly inspired by Harrogate) is beautifully described, and the characters are wonderful.
PEDANT ALERT! If ever introduce a Gold medal for "Nit-picking" what I am about to write will probably be the first entry, but I can't resist pointing out one slight error in the generally excellent background research.
One of the real historical characters in the series, who keeps sending people to Yorkshire to try to catch various criminals in "Unmasked," in this book, and in "Confessions of a Duchess", is the Home secretary.
Robert Jenkinson, who was Home Secretary from 1804 to 1806 and from 1807 to 1809, with a spell as Leader of the Opposition in between, and was later Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827, held this position at the time of all three books.
In "Unmasked" the author correctly names him as Home Secretary in 1805, referring to him as Lord Hawkesbury, which was indeed his title in that year.
In "Confessions of a Duchess" the author again refers to him as Home Secretary in September 1809 which is - just about - correct. That was the last full month of his second stint in the job. She accurately refers to him as Lord Liverpool, the title under which he is usually remembered today, and which he had by this time inherited.
In this book, the author rightly names him as Home Secretary in April 1809, but alas, wrongly refers to him by the older title of Lord Hawkesbury. As his father, the first Earl of Liverpool, died in December 1808, by the time of this book he was the second Earl of Liverpool.
This very minor error aside, the background research is good and the book is entertaining.
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