Review: Beautiful - Lovely Little Regency!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2014
Ill fortune seemed to be all that followed the young Miss Abigal Westcoate.  As if being jilted at the altar were not enough, the home her father and aunt had been appropriated by the heir of the kindly uncle that had allowed them to live there.  Heaping more on their heads the heir wouldn’t even let them retrieve their meager belongings. Soon after her father lost his fortune, his health declined and died.  Finally, the trustee her father had put his faith in to manage Abby’s small inheritance, left her trust in the hands of corrupt clerk who stole her funds leaving both Abby and her aunt Matilda in wretched straits.Having lost all hope of reaching out to her trustee, the Marquess of Ravensgaerd, Abby, changed her name and applied for a job as a governess to the Countess of Castweill.  It wasn’t until later that Abby discovered that the Countess of Castweill was the sister of Ravensgaerd, the very man responsible for her dire circumstances.***  As a reviewer who reads all kinds of different genre’s, I always seem to return to my all time favorite genre which is the sweet and mildly sensual Historical Regency Romances to which LOVELY LITTLE LIAR hits all the buttons on my wish list.  Give me a sweet virginal innocent, couple it with a powerful, wealthy Lord and watch that sweet little innocent bring the powerful Lord to his knees so to speak.  It’s a great recipe and it works for me every time.  However, it works even better when the powerful hero discovers, as told here in LOVELY LITTLE LIAR, that the beautiful young girl (whom he’d figured was a young genteel woman fallen on hard times, was in that situation, because of him!Adding to the obvious sweet romance and sensual innuendoes between our two protagonists, Ms. Gay also developed a well thought out premise including a truly despicable and cowardly villain and a plethora of other well-drawn secondary characters I could see having stories of their own down the road.  With this in mind, I would dearly love to see Ms. Gay capitalize on the momentum of LOVELY LITTLE LIAR and continue it into a series!Marilyn Rondeau, for [...]