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The Leopard Prince

by Elizabeth Hoyt



      Lady Georgina Maitland has plenty of money and a lifestyle she enjoys, so it doesn’t worry her that she is considered on the shelf at twenty-eight. Trouble is, when her eye does alight on a well proportioned male, he is her estate manager, Harry Pye. Even worse, Harry is the enemy of her choleric neighbor, Silas Granville, and the two have considerable history. Sheep are being killed, and everybody’s fingers are pointing at Harry. When a murder takes place people are really out for his blood. How can Georgina save him and marry him?

Wicked squires, a relationship reminiscent of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (complete with sex scenes), and something of a mystery to solve make this an entertaining book. There is plenty of plot in here, including the fairy tale that gives the book its title. As well as a romance, it is a good page turner. Missing is a sense of period, as we could just as easily be in the Regency. The country setting is perhaps the main reason for that, but again I didn’t particularly feel that the book was filled with a sense of place, either. This aside (and it didn’t spoil my enjoyment of the story), even without these extra dimensions this a good, lively tale. This was the first book I had read by this author, but I would certainly read another.

The Book

Warner Forever (Warner Books)
April 2007
Paperback
0446618489
Romance - 1760 - Yorkshire, UK
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Excerpt
NOTE: Some sex

The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2007
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