How To Engage An Earl
Kathryn Caskie
Reviewed by Terry Spear
In between writing, editing, creating award-winning bears for orders and substitute teaching, I still make time to read everything I can get my hands on. So when I grabbed HOW TO ENGAGE AN EARL to read in the event I had a moment or two while subbing for a third grade class, I found a real winner. Thankfully, I was monitoring kids for practice achievement tests for reading, and so I was able to drop into Kathryn Caskie’s wonderful world for most of the day. By the time I went to sleep that night, I’d learned just how to engage an earl in a fun, mystery-filled way!
If you want a humorous, sexy read that continues to pull you through the world of the ton, with cliff hangers that make it hard to put the story down—in fact, I had a difficult time leaving the story long enough to tell the third graders to shut off their computers as it was time to go home—then this is the story for you!
In HOW TO ENGAGE AN EARL, Miss Anne Royale ends up in Laird Allen, the newly belted earl of MacLaren’s bedchamber while his mother is hosting a ball. Anne is searching for a letter that may reveal her ties to the royal family. Laird Allen must find a bride to create an heir, except he’s such a rake, no respectable woman wants him. So when he discovers Anne in his bedchambers, she raises the alarm, and half the ton rush into the room.
When his best friend, as much a rake as himself, states the lady is his betrothed, Laird’s mother is ecstatic, though she questions Anne as to the truth of the matter. What is the poor lady to do? But claim she’s his betrothed and plan a way to break the engagement as soon as humanly possible.
Only Laird doesn’t want to break his mother’s heart, so for now, until he or Anne can come up with a better plan, they’re going through with the engagement. The tail twists and turns in the wonderfully-described settings of 1815 England and I felt I was poor Anne, trying to find my family roots, engaged to an earl with the most dubious reputation, and falling in love at the same time. Thanks to Miss Caskie for giving me characters to love and an urge to find my own earl to engage!
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About the Reviewer:
Terry Spear is the author of urban fantasy werewolf romantic suspenses, HEART OF THE WOLF, April 2008, and DON’T CRY WOLF, April 2009. A retired lieutenant colonel with the USAR, she makes award-winning teddy bears and writes paranormal and historical novels for adult and teen audiences alike.
“The vulpine couple's chemistry crackles off the page, but the real strength of the book lies in Spear's depiction of pack power dynamics, as well as in the details of human-wolf interaction. Her wolf world feels at once palpable and even plausible” says Publishers Weekly of HEART OF THE WOLF.
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