Poetry of Reading

 “Why does it always happen that just when I begin to feel life simply couldn't get any better, fate drops a disaster into my path to prove me right?”This is the third of a rare find: a well-researched, well-written, historical romantic mystery series. Pre-ordered it, got it this morning, and just finished. One...

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“Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and Miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered...

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“We live in a world where the strongest win, and the strongest must expect to be disliked.”At the end of “The Pagan Lord,” both Uhtred and his hated cousin Æthelred, the Lord of Merica, suffered terrible wounds at the battle of Teotanheale. Uhtred was stabbed in the side by Cnut Ranulfson, with his...

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“Loyaute me lie - Loyalty Binds Me”Anne Neville is not well known. She is most famous for being the wronged wife of Richard III. At the time of her death, many whispered that she’d been poisoned by her husband to make way for his marriage to his niece Elizabeth of York. That marriage...

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