My Lady Deceiver

by June Francis

“FOR MOST LOVE IS A DREAM, AND JUST AS UNLIKELY TO COME TRUE.”

For Philippa Cobtree there was no future in dreaming of Guy Milburn. She was betrothed to his brother Hugo and there could never be anything between them.

But it was Guy who had found her in Canterbury—filthy, hungry and weary to the bone, her home burnt down and her serfs in revolt.

Guy had rescued her and Guy had won her love—but how could they forget Hugo who lay between them?

It seemed the only way out of this dilemma was to embark on a most daring deception...

Genres: Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Medieval, Romance

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Although, June was born in the seaside resort of Blackpool, she has lived all her life in the port of Liverpool, home of the Beatles. One of four children, her love of stories began when her father told her 'The Little Match Girl', which left her in floods of tears, but also with a desire to make up stories, herself. As soon as she could read she was doing a three mile walk to the local library. She passed the scholarship to Liverpool Girls' College where her English teacher told her that she had a great imagination. Despite this, June did not believe she could ever be an author, so on leaving school, she became a cash clerk. She married at twenty-two, has three sons, ran a church playgroup for ten years and it wasn't until her youngest started school that she joined a Writers' Club and turned her hand to writing articles about What She Knew for a woman's magazine. But her first love had always been books and eventually she wrote her first two medieval romances for Mills & Boon. After doing another two, she had an urge to write a family story set in Liverpool during WWII. This was bought by another publisher. Since then she has had thirty-three books published.

Reviews

[Laiba · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story and development was good but the ending was so rushed and like the problem magically solved itself???

[Ria · Rating 5 out of 5]

The scene is 14th Century England where after a riot including the serfs on her father's land Philippa Cobtree finds herself alone with her maid Rose after her father is murdered during the trouble.
Enter Guy who finds her lost and alone with Rose and who is the brother to Hugo who she has been betrothed to years before.
Guy intends to give her safe escort to Hugo's home where they will wed but he doesn't bank on falling in love with Philppa and she with him.
Reluctantly they part as Guy wants to do the right thing and give her up to Hugo but after a quirk of fate Rose is mistaken for Philippa by Hugo and instantly falls head over heels for him.
So the intrepid and wily Philippa hatches a plot for both of them to get the right man they want to marry.
Rich in historical detail this is a wild and fun romp full of adventure, derring do and an all round feel good storyline.
A must for romantics at heart and for those who enjoy a well written, ripping yarn.

[Janice Smith-gentry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story.

This is a very good book. The emotions of the characters are well described as well as the time and environment the story takes place in. However the ending seemed a little rushed. Overall it is one I would recommend to others.