Review: The How To Series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 20, 2013
Three mediocre books in the set; the first one deals with a widowed duchess, Artemesia Pelham-Smythe; a woman determined to make herself known in the world of art. She hires well-endowed male models for her work. One such model is Trevelyn Deveridge, an intelligence officer, using the name of Thomas Doverspike, who is mistaken by the duchess to be one of her models when he arrives. She orders him to undress, knowing that he had done more difficult things in his role and figured this impersonation could end in something other than what he was originally there for, he complies. The second and third books are about the same family; in book two Jacquelyn Wren,chateleine at  Dragon Caern, attempts to prevent the new lord, Gabriel Drake, from taking his rightful place, due to rumors that she had heard that the new lord was to turn out the people who sheltered there. Gabriel had no intentions of such, but he learns that he now has five nieces as well as the remainder of the folk in his castle to protect; to do so, he must marry a well born wife in hopes of producing an heir; book three continues with one of Gabriel's nieces, Daisy, teaming up with an old childhood friend, Lucian Beaumont, in searching for antiquities. Lucian ignores Daisy however so she decides to appear in masquerade at an affair as a courtesan, Blanche La Tour, to try and garner his attention.