Review: Another "reveal" in the Malcolm/Charles - Suzanne/Melanie relationship.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2012
For anyone like me who can't get enough of these characters of Tracy/Teresa Grant's, starting with her first bookSecrets of a Lady, this is a treat.  We get a look at how Malcolm and Suzanne become engaged and the first days of their marriage.  Faithful readers more or less know already but this gives us more details of the days leading up to the wedding and a few days after and a bit more insight into how and why they got together.  Not only that, but there's a little mystery to solve and it's their very first collaboration.  It's fun to see Malcolm's surprise at his new wife's sleuthing abilities, since, of course, here and in most of the books he has been in the dark about who she really is.Tracy Grant keeps her readers on their toes by not releasing this couple's stories in chronological order, but her next,The Paris Affair (Malcom & Suzanne Rannoch Historical Mysteries) (Charles & Melanie Fraser), does followImperial Scandal (Malcom & Suzanne Rannoch Historical Mysteries)chronologically, and that one, in turn, followedVienna Waltz (Malcom & Suzanne Rannoch Historical Mysteries)in real time.  For the most part, it has been the stories she wrote as Tracy Grant, rather than Teresa, with Charles and Melanie as the couple's names, that had us moving back and forth in time.I gave this 5 stars because it filled in some gaps for me in the couple's relationship but I can see that for someone new to the couple and just picking up this novella, it would be perhaps a 3-star story.