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Wyndcross: A Regency Romance | Martha Keyes

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A lady intent on refusing the fortune she desperately needs. A gentleman caught up in a smuggling scheme. Kate Matcham needs a fortune or a husband. She wants neither. With a tainted inheritance in the balance, she receives one offer to become a scoundrel's mistress and another offer of a marriage of convenience. Before resigning herself to a choice, she accepts the invitation to visit a childhood friend, considering it a last hurrah before embarking on a bleak future. The visit goes sideways when she falls for the gentleman her friend intends to marry, a man well out of Kate's league--and one who seems to be hiding something. Smuggling has overtaken the county, and it seems that everyone is complicit in the trade that killed her father. One by one, her options dwindle as she struggles against her strengthening feelings for a duplicitous man, a determination not to hurt her friend, and keeping the promise she made long ago: to stand up to the people who killed her father.

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Wyndcross: A Regency Romance | Martha Keyes

so-so

Overall, I enjoyed this. There was one description of a woman near the beginning that I didn't like. I felt it was completely unnecessary. It also had a mystery surrounding smuggling that I wasn't a huge fan of. I was lost in some places. However, I should be clear that mystery, in general, isn't something I gravitate to. It definitely has angst, and an HEA. No cliffhanger and it is the 1st of a series. I won't be reading any of the others.

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Wyndcross: A Regency Romance | Martha Keyes

pick

I don‘t generally read Regencies but a Hoopla Free Borrow audio says I do.

I remember more early ‘70s romances, dating already dated Regency. This one is 2019, never heard of the author but it‘s a good book, usual Regency tropes, spies, smugglers, rich relations.

Pic is “Where there‘s a will…” by Edmund Blair Leighton, painted 1892.

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