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A Lady At Midnight

by Melinda Hammond



      Amelia Langridge has led a quiet life in the country with her mother and grandfather, and is almost promised to her dull neighbour Edmund Crannock, but when an old school friend of her mother's offers to have Amelia as a companion for her own daughter it looks as though Amelia will get a little town bronze after all. Beautiful Camilla Strickland is pleased to see how ordinary and retiring Amelia is, for she is aiming to catch as wealthy a husband as possible. When fate puts Earl Rossleigh in their path, all Camilla can think about is becoming his wife, but the Earl has another agenda, first unconnected with romance - rather a more dangerous one - and maybe sensible Amelia will be more suited to lend a hand.

For anybody tired of battle of the sexes stories and alpha males, this most engaging tale will be a tonic. Amelia makes a sensible but attractive heroine, offset by her silly, selfish (though not vindictive) companions and Earl Rossleigh makes a feeling, cheerful yet masculine hero. Neither appears too modern, and the very real (and timeless) problems they have to solve together lifts this book out of the common run. The only flaw is that although it is set over half a century previous to the Regency era, there isn't enough period detail to be able to tell it apart from a typical Regency which is a pity; half the fun of reading a historical novel of any kind is to immerse oneself in another time. Better then to sit back and enjoy what is a very appealing story - this is a novel, after all.

The Book

Robert Hale
July 2005
Hardback
070907820X
Historical Romance [1750s, London]
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The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2005
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