Title: Isabella and The English Witch
Description: Goodreads review by Aviva:
Isabella is the story of a spinster who has no interest in marriage, but comes to London for a season to act as chaperone. Because she's loaded, she catches the eye of Basil Trevalyan, who fully plans on using her to pay off his debts. He's pretty ruthless about it in the book, but as I said in an earlier review, society wasn't kind to women so the fact that nobody's pearl clutching and snubbing him totally isn't all that shocking. Actually, it's kindof expected. Anyway, Isabel also appeals to Basil's rich cousin Lord Hartleigh, who happens to have a ward that loves Isabel like a fat kid loves cupcakes. So you can guess who she ends up with. Though Basil pulls some dastardly punches in order to level the playing field. Anyway, novel ends with Isabel getting her man and totally forgiving Basil, which is good because everybody else hates him and he's gone off to India so he's got to have SOMEONE from back home who'll open his letters. 

The English Witch is what happens after Basil gets over his whole "I'm out to use the world and spit it out" thing. He gets roped into escording Alexandra Ashmore back to England and pretending to be her fiance because she really, really doesn't want to marry this wet mop her father owes money to and her other option is getting kidnapped and forced to marry some Albanian dude. Incidentally I think was Chase putting her toe in the water for that novel set in Albania that I like to pretend never happened. And of course they fall in love and live happily ever after. 

Both books were good reads, though not especially notable. They were apparently Avon classics so it doesn't surprise me that they were really, really formulaic because the Avon books were a lot like the Harlequin serials. Anyway, good as a distraction, but not her best work.
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Anthology
People: Basil Trevalyan, Lord Hartleigh; Alexandra Ashmore
Time periods: Regency Era