Join the adventure as the triplets Fire, Wind and Ice finally meet their matches!
Through the Fire
When two people have walked through fire, can love bring the healing and help they need? Discover what happens when the sharp-tongued sister meets a handsome doctor with a delicious Scottish burr.
Melting the Ice
Disillusioned by his past, a duke sets out to find a bride in a manner more suited to generations past—through his solicitor. A ton beauty who turns down every proposal she receives is rumoured to be holding out for a Duke. She rejects his impersonal proposal, and is then forced into his company every day…
With the Wind
Already secretly married, the third triplet decides to cross the ocean in search of her missing husband. The journey and the investigation uncover painful surprises. Will the ship’s Captain somehow stand in the way of her lost love’s return?
Like many writers, Elizabeth Johns was first an avid reader, though she was a reluctant convert. It was Jane Austen's clever wit and unique turn of phrase that hooked Johns when she was "forced" to read Pride and Prejudice for a school assignment. She began writing when she ran out of her favorite author’s books and decided to try her hand at crafting a Regency romance novel. Her journey into publishing began with the release of Surrender the Past, book one of the Loring-Abbott Series. Johns makes no pretensions to Austen’s wit but hopes readers will perhaps laugh and find some enjoyment in her writing. Johns attributes much of her inspiration to her mother, a retired English teacher. During their last summer together, Johns would sit on the porch swing and read her stories to her mother, who encouraged her to continue writing. Busy with multiple careers, including a professional job in the medical field, author and mother of small children, Johns squeezes in time for reading whenever possible.
I really enjoyed these three books. I had read Fire's story previously but enjoyed reading it a second time. I love that I got all three books from the series in a boxed set. Each was the perfect blend of romance and suspense. The characters were wonderful and their adventures delightful.
Warning spoiler: There are some bad characters in the first two novels. An orphanage houses unwed mother's that causes some village problems. The villain in Ice runs a brothel and some murders occur.