From the Publisher
McQuiston’s third Seduction Diaries novel is to be commended for its complex and unusual plot and for featuring characters the reader comes to care for. A surprising, readable story about healing, forgiveness, and trust.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Pure Escapism. Ms. Mcquiston created a romance as epic as the characters who lived it. [...] With easily identifiable main characters and a thrilling story, it was a no brainer for me to gift this book with 5 stars and a Top Pick.” — Night Owl Reviews
“The real fun is in Mary and Geoffrey’s verbal sparring, spiked with double entendres and Mary’s journal entries detailing her experiences. Regency romance fans will adore this addition to McQuiston’s Seduction Diaries series.” — Booklist
“fast-paced and eminently enjoyable... It’s fantastic, one of the best romances of 2016. Don’t miss this series”! — ReadertoReader Reviews
“equal parts mystery and romance, and just when readers begin to feel cheated, the twists and turns navigate to a stunning ending.” — Publishers Weekly
Kirkus Reviews
McQuiston’s third Seduction Diaries novel is to be commended for its complex and unusual plot and for featuring characters the reader comes to care for. A surprising, readable story about healing, forgiveness, and trust.”
RT Book Reviews (4 stars)
Incorporating plenty of sexual tension, bantering dialogue, and a mystery into this installment delivers everything fans expect from McQuiston. This is truly a delightful addition to a reader’s library.”
AudioFile
Lana J. Weston narrates the third entry in the Seduction Diaries series with her trademark charm and attention to detail…All the characters in this story are uniquely interpreted and fully realized, even the most fleeting. Weston also does an excellent job balancing the requirements of the romance cum mystery. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
Booklist
What begins as a dutiful marriage turns into a genuine partnership…The real fun is in Mary and Geoffrey’s verbal sparring, spiked with double entendres and Mary’s journal entries detailing her experiences. Regency romance fans will adore this addition to McQuiston’s Seduction Diaries series.”
Publishers Weekly
McQuiston’s Victorian-era romantic thriller…is equal parts mystery and romance…The twists and turns navigate to a stunning ending.”
Top Pick) Night Owl Reviews (5 stars
Pure Escapism. Ms. Mcquiston created a romance as epic as the characters who lived it…A thrilling story.”
Night Owl Reviews
Pure Escapism. Ms. Mcquiston created a romance as epic as the characters who lived it. [...] With easily identifiable main characters and a thrilling story, it was a no brainer for me to gift this book with 5 stars and a Top Pick.
Booklist
The real fun is in Mary and Geoffrey’s verbal sparring, spiked with double entendres and Mary’s journal entries detailing her experiences. Regency romance fans will adore this addition to McQuiston’s Seduction Diaries series.
ReadertoReader Reviews
fast-paced and eminently enjoyable... It’s fantastic, one of the best romances of 2016. Don’t miss this series”!
Kirkus Reviews
2016-07-19
A bookish young woman and a degenerate ex-soldier team up to foil an assassination plot in Victorian England, falling in love in the process.When Mary Channing answers a summons to keep her pregnant sister company in London, she expects to continue her usual quiet life of reading and writing in her journal. But her first social event ends in disaster when Geoffrey "West" Westmore corners her in a library and steals a kiss. West is recovering from psychological wounds he suffered in the Crimean War and is apt to think of women as delicious distractions from his own pain, not as people in their own rights. When the pair hides behind a curtain to avoid discovery, they overhear the sketchy outlines of an assassination plot. The would-be assassins soon depart, but another group enters, and this time they find a tousled Mary alone with one of London’s most notorious womanizers. What follows is a rollicking tale as West tries to convince Mary to become Mrs. Westmore and Mary tries to convince West that he needs her help investigating the assassination plot. But West still thinks Mary, and all women, is his to enjoy and protect and is unwilling to treat Mary as an equal. Both West and Mary are rather bumbling in their sleuthing skills, overlooking obvious clues, being impulsive and indiscreet. Mary is intelligent but naïve. West is blinded by his lack of faith in Mary’s abilities and by his own trauma. Still, McQuiston’s (The Spinster’s Guide to Scandalous Behavior, 2015, etc.) third Seduction Diaries novel is to be commended for its complex and unusual plot and for featuring characters the reader comes to care for. A surprising, readable story about healing, forgiveness, and trust.
