Category: Re-Release / Updated Edition

Highland Wrath by Madeline Martin

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122753006Highland Wrath by Madeline Martin

Tracy’s rating: 5 of 5 stars

Series: The Mercenary Maidens, #3

Release Date: RE-RELEASE November 14, 2023

If you have been following the series, you already know Sylvi and have probably been dying to know how she ended up as a mercenary, where did she learn to fight and why does she always wear a ribbon around her neck – well, my friends, the wait is over! All your questions will be answered!!

Sylvi is the leader of a band of mercenary women warriors, she is strong, brave, and seemly indomitable – but Sylvi has scars, both emotional and physical, and her entire being cries for vengeance against those who stole everything from her.

When she accepts a job to assassinate Ian Campbell, her world is turned upside down. Finally, she will have the means to enact her vengeance, but will revenge be the balm to her soul that she envisioned or will the love of an equally flawed man finally set her free?

There is a lot happening in this book and it is almost impossible to give details without ruining the story for you – so suffice it to say – read the book, you will not be sorry! There is action, adventure, steamy love scenes, a hero to die for, betrayal, twists, heartbreak, some moments of sorrow and of joy, and finally a true love HEA for more than just Sylvi and Ian!

Even if you haven’t read the previous books in the series, you will be able to read this story with no problems, but you really should read the books in order – it will make this story all the more satisfying!! It is important to note, that this book was previously released in 2018.

*I am voluntarily leaving a review for an eARC that was provided to me by the publisher*

While You Were Spying by Shana Galen

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While You Were Spying (Regency Spies, #0.5)

Barbara’s rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
Series: Regency Spies
Period: Regency
Number of Pages: 358

Can two individuals who have been deeply hurt by love find the strength to remove their walls and allow love to happen again? You bet they can when Shana Galen is in the writer’s chair. This book is one of Galen’s earlier releases, but it has been dressed up with an enticing new cover. It has a lovely romance along with smuggling, traitors, spies, murder, and, did I say lovely romance?

Ethan Caxton, the Marquess of Winterbourne, will never fall in love with any woman. He tried that once, and she ripped his heart out and stomped on it. He’ll never give another woman a chance to do that to him again because he’d never survive it. He’ll just spend his time working for the Foreign Office and ferreting out traitors and French spies. French spies are what brought him to Hampshire, and he is determined to catch both the smugglers and their leader. That leader just has to be a man of power and influence, most likely an aristocrat. Ethan has been watching the Skerrit farm for days because he’s sure the arms are being stored there – somewhere, somehow. So, he’s beside himself when he catches a young woman trying to rescue an abused horse from Skerrit. He has to get her out of there, but she won’t budge without the horse. Grrrrr.

Miss Francesca Dashing had been betrothed once and that was quite enough for her thank you very much. She’d just continue to live with her parents in the country and save all the sick and injured animals she could find. Her father always acquiesces and lets her add one more animal to their collection at home. At least he did until she brought home a horse she’d just rescued. That, it seemed, was a step too far. But, what was she to do? If that pesky Marquess had just gone on about his business and left her alone, she would have managed just fine. Wasn’t humiliating her in London enough for him?

Ethan has gone on about his business of catching smugglers – and trying to forget that fetching Miss who only wanted to save a horse. But when he learns Francesca has been viciously attacked – not long after a vicious murder occurred – he’s convinced both crimes are related to the smugglers. Ethan will just have to find a way to protect Francesca and guard against any damage to his heart.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and hope you will as well. There is a nasty villain, an entertaining valet, an irate father, a mother who espouses all things Italian, and two deeply wounded people who put on a good front for the rest of the world to see. It was lovely to watch as each of them assaulted the walls built by the other. Will they succeed in tearing down the walls? You’ll just need to read the book to see.

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