The Dream of a Duchess

This was ok. The pace is extremely slow. I like Isabella and her independence. The story is split between two couples who are connected but to me, the switching back and forth breaks the flow. The last seven chapters kind of picked up the pace but then the ending didn't convince me that Octavius rea......more

The Dream of the Duchess was a well written, sweet romance that had a unique plot. The Heroine , Lady Isabella, finds a strange note that was written to her mother from "D". Later that night, she see's her father standing over her mother's dead body as though he is strangling her. Afraid for her lif......more

lady Isabella flees her home after thinking she saw her mother being murdered, and runs to the person her mother advised her to if she ever needed help, her cousins betrothed David, Fitzwilliam Earl of Norwood. David engages his friend Octavius, Duke of Huntingdon to hide her until the truth of what......more

In this first book of the series, Ms Sande has once again piqued my interest in how the rest of the books would unravel. There were, in fact, two stories intertwined, both romantic, but the story between Isabella and Octavius progressed a little more slowly than that of David and Clarinda. The book......more

This was another fabulous regency romance from Linda Rae Sande. I love the fact that when I read a book from this author, it's not the "same ole, same ole" story line. This book had all kinds of twists and turns that made me want to keep reading to find out really what was going on and, oh my god, w......more