Month: November 2024

Celeste Connally: All’s Fair in Love and Treachery

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Lady Petra Inquires #2

Celeste Connally introduced the intrepid, fearless, convention defying Lady Petra in last year’s Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord.  Lady Petra is defying convention purposefully, declaring she will never marry, and since she’s given a house and allowance by her father, she is wealthy enough to do as she pleases.  She also has the ear of the Queen.  It’s 1815, and London is on the verge of Wellington’s triumph at Waterloo.  Queen Charlotte was a force at court thanks to the mental health challenges of King George III.  This affects Lady Petra, as the Queen invites her to investigate the mysterious death of the matron at an orphan’s home. read more

Mia P. Manansala: Guilt and Ginataan

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Tita Rosie’s Kitchen #5

When this series opened, Lila Macapagal, our heroine, was a young woman with a broken heart who had left the big city of Chicago for her little hometown of Shady Palms.  She began the series working in her Aunt Rosie’s restaurant; by book five, she and her besties, Adeena and Elena, have opened their own place: the Brew Ha Cafe. As this book opens, they are manning their booth at the local corn festival (hey, it’s Illinois), offering up an unbelievable array of delicious sounding treats featuring corn.  Warning: don’t read these books hungry. read more