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Signet Valentine Anthologies #2
Regency Valentine Vol. II
Five of the most beloved and highly-acclaimed Regency authors present this collection of delightful tales that captures all the romance and intrigue of the most passionate of holidays--St. Valentine's Day. This anthology of spirited ladies, dashing gentlemen, notorious rakes, and scandalous lovers will be savored all year long. Original.
A task for cupid by Carol Proctor
A waltz among the stars by Mary Balogh
The light within by Carla Kelly
The midsummer valentine by Sandra Heath
The legacy by Edith Layton
A task for cupid by Carol Proctor
A waltz among the stars by Mary Balogh
The light within by Carla Kelly
The midsummer valentine by Sandra Heath
The legacy by Edith Layton
296 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1991
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Mary Balogh
193 books6,425 followersMary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. She married her Canadian husband, Robert Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. She also enjoys watching tennis and curling.
Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling 'Slightly' sextet and 'Simply' quartet. She has won numerous awards, including Bestselling Historical of the Year from the Borders Group, and her novel Simply Magic was a finalist in the Quill Awards. She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling 'Slightly' sextet and 'Simply' quartet. She has won numerous awards, including Bestselling Historical of the Year from the Borders Group, and her novel Simply Magic was a finalist in the Quill Awards. She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award.
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May 3, 2020
4 Estrellitas. Aunque debo decir que de ésta antología sólo he leído el relato corto de Mary Balogh "A waltz among the stars", porque adoro a ésta autora, es mi favorita. El problema, como suele ser últimamente con éste género, es que lo he leído en inglés porque éste tipo de libros no se ven nunca en español y mi inglés deja mucho que desear como para haberlo entendido todo.
Éste relato nos cuenta una breve historia muy bonita, de las que siempre gustan en romance histórico. Como se puede adivinar por el título del libro, ésta antología son cuentos de San Valentin
Nuestros protagonistas son Caleb, el vizconde Brandon, y heredero de un marquesado, y Lady Barbara Hanover, hija mayor del duque de Durham. Caleb enviudó hace dos años, tras casarse con el amor de su vida, cuando se casaron, ella estaba enferma y ambos lo sabían, pero él la quería y su matrimonio sólo duró dos meses. También sabe que por su posición debe volver a casarse y seguramente será un matrimonio de conveniencia.
Hace unos meses, Caleb conoció a Lady Eve Hanover, hija pequeña del duque de Durham en Londres, y en ese momento le pareció una buena candidata, así que meses después, en febrero, acepta la invitación a una fiesta campestre por San Valentín, con el objeto de que pueda cortejar a Eve. Pero la vida de Caleb cambia cuando llega a Durham Hall y conoce a Lady Barbara.
Barbara Hanover, a pesar de ser la hija mayor de los duques de Durham, vive como una paria entre su familia en su gran mansión del campo. Para la familia es una extraña, la mantienen, pero si la ven, como si no la conocieran. Y éste proceder tiene que ver con el desliz que protagonizó ocho años atrás. Durante su primera temporada en Londres, conoció a Zachary, el heredero empobrecido de un simple baronet, y soldado. Lógicamente y debido a sus diferencias sociales, su familia no estaba por la labor de dicho enlace, pero estaban enamorados y en la noche de San Valentín hicieron el amor. Al poco tiempo a él lo llamaron a la guerra y murió durante la batalla de Talavera, y dejó a Barbara embarazada. Ella se enteró de la muerte de Zachary, a las pocas semanas de parir a su hijo Zach. Así que su desliz fue irremediable y cayó en la desgracia de parir a un bastardo.
Caleb y Barbara se conocen a la llegada de éste, y gracias a la intromisión del pequeño y dulce Zach. En otras circunstancias no se habrían conocido, Calen venía para cortejar a la hermana pequeña, pero Barbara y Zach tienen libertad de movimiento por la casa y la finca y nuestros protagonistas coincidirán varias veces durante la estancia de Caleb, y como es lógico, acabarán enamorados.
El relato ha sido muy bonito, pero muy breve, que es lo que más lamento cuando leo relatos cortos, que todo acaba rápido y siempre deseas algo más. En éste caso el relato ha tenido un equilibrio perfecto entre la historia, sus protagonistas y el romance, ha sido muy dulce y bonito. Pese a la dificultad de haberlo leído en inglés, no renunciaré y seguiré leyendo más relatos (y todos los libros que pueda) de Mary Balogh.
Éste relato nos cuenta una breve historia muy bonita, de las que siempre gustan en romance histórico. Como se puede adivinar por el título del libro, ésta antología son cuentos de San Valentin
Nuestros protagonistas son Caleb, el vizconde Brandon, y heredero de un marquesado, y Lady Barbara Hanover, hija mayor del duque de Durham. Caleb enviudó hace dos años, tras casarse con el amor de su vida, cuando se casaron, ella estaba enferma y ambos lo sabían, pero él la quería y su matrimonio sólo duró dos meses. También sabe que por su posición debe volver a casarse y seguramente será un matrimonio de conveniencia.
Hace unos meses, Caleb conoció a Lady Eve Hanover, hija pequeña del duque de Durham en Londres, y en ese momento le pareció una buena candidata, así que meses después, en febrero, acepta la invitación a una fiesta campestre por San Valentín, con el objeto de que pueda cortejar a Eve. Pero la vida de Caleb cambia cuando llega a Durham Hall y conoce a Lady Barbara.
Barbara Hanover, a pesar de ser la hija mayor de los duques de Durham, vive como una paria entre su familia en su gran mansión del campo. Para la familia es una extraña, la mantienen, pero si la ven, como si no la conocieran. Y éste proceder tiene que ver con el desliz que protagonizó ocho años atrás. Durante su primera temporada en Londres, conoció a Zachary, el heredero empobrecido de un simple baronet, y soldado. Lógicamente y debido a sus diferencias sociales, su familia no estaba por la labor de dicho enlace, pero estaban enamorados y en la noche de San Valentín hicieron el amor. Al poco tiempo a él lo llamaron a la guerra y murió durante la batalla de Talavera, y dejó a Barbara embarazada. Ella se enteró de la muerte de Zachary, a las pocas semanas de parir a su hijo Zach. Así que su desliz fue irremediable y cayó en la desgracia de parir a un bastardo.
Caleb y Barbara se conocen a la llegada de éste, y gracias a la intromisión del pequeño y dulce Zach. En otras circunstancias no se habrían conocido, Calen venía para cortejar a la hermana pequeña, pero Barbara y Zach tienen libertad de movimiento por la casa y la finca y nuestros protagonistas coincidirán varias veces durante la estancia de Caleb, y como es lógico, acabarán enamorados.
El relato ha sido muy bonito, pero muy breve, que es lo que más lamento cuando leo relatos cortos, que todo acaba rápido y siempre deseas algo más. En éste caso el relato ha tenido un equilibrio perfecto entre la historia, sus protagonistas y el romance, ha sido muy dulce y bonito. Pese a la dificultad de haberlo leído en inglés, no renunciaré y seguiré leyendo más relatos (y todos los libros que pueda) de Mary Balogh.
February 23, 2021
This was my second time reading this book. Though I read all of the short stories, Mary Balogh’s A Waltz Among The Stars was the only one I enjoyed. Yes, GR friends, even Carla Kelly’s novella (gasp!) was barely middle of the road.
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A Duke’s daughter did the unthinkable and gave birth to a son. For years she had been banished to another part of her parents’ estate; living, but not living with no future. Until one day the widower, Viscount Brandon, made his presence known.
He had come to court Lady Eve, Barbara’s younger sister, and make her an offer. I was happy to see happenstances veer in a different direction.
With a little more than 60 pages, Mrs. Balogh took me on a swoon worthy journey with an endearing forever after.
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A Duke’s daughter did the unthinkable and gave birth to a son. For years she had been banished to another part of her parents’ estate; living, but not living with no future. Until one day the widower, Viscount Brandon, made his presence known.
He had come to court Lady Eve, Barbara’s younger sister, and make her an offer. I was happy to see happenstances veer in a different direction.
With a little more than 60 pages, Mrs. Balogh took me on a swoon worthy journey with an endearing forever after.
January 18, 2015
Mary Balogh's "A Waltz Among the Stars" unites two lonely souls in the Valentine's holiday season very sweetly within the parameters of the short story. The portrayal of the heroine's energetic young son was true to life and added some humorous relief to the emotional tale.
February 8, 2014
I wrote in depth about "A Waltz Among the Stars" by Mary Balogh for Heroes and Heartbreakers.
Our protagonists are a widower and a single mother. Caleb White, Viscount Brandon, has finally decided to set aside his grief, two years after the death of his wife. Lady Barbara Hanover, the mother of a seven year-old boy conceived on Valentine’s Day eight years earlier, wonders if life holds anything more for her than her secluded life on her father’s ducal estate. Two people waking up to the realization that
…Valentine’s Day was different. It was a day for lovers, a day for two people, a day when relatives and friends counted for very little. Just that one other. That one dearly beloved other.
What Caleb and Barbara have in common is they’ve both lost love and endured years of empty loneliness. Other than that, however, they could scarcely be more different. Caleb is visiting the Duke of Durham’s primary seat in order to court Lady Eve Hanover, the duke’s youngest daughter. Barbara is mourning the loss of her memories of her soldier-lover, the father of her son Zachery, a casualty of the Battle of Talavera, Spain, 1809.
She was forgetting Zach, and she was restless and longing for something to which she could not—or dared not—put a name. And Valentine’s Day was always the worst day of all. She dreaded it and wished it past already.
As so often happens in Balogh’s stories, a child is the bridge that joins a couple and so it is here. Caleb is delighted by Zachery’s boyish enthusiasms, teaching him how to sail a boat and train his first puppy but he’s certainly not unmindful of Barbara’s serene blonde beauty, even though,
“I am the skeleton in the family closet,” she said.
He looked steadily at her. “Are you?” he said. “But you have a lovely son.”
When Barbara shares that she is not sorry, because her son is all she has of her fallen love, Caleb not only understands, he says, “I have no such memento of my wife. I envy you.” Caleb’s family is warm and demonstrative, quite a contrast to Barbara’s life on the outside of her family circle. Again and again, Balogh writes of the tension between Barbara’s single-minded devotion to her son and her yearning to love and be loved, as when she says, almost in shock after Caleb rescues her son from a dunking, “I have nothing else in the world. Only him.” Barbara believes that her status as an unwed mother is the only measure defining her, dooming “her to living on the fringes of life.” She thinks poignantly that there was “no end to her disgrace, as there was an end to his grief.” She confides to Caleb that she wishes she could dance “among the stars.”
Balogh has an unerring ability to extract the true nature of love between a man and a woman, often delineating it as it unfolds. Attracted to Barbara’s mature loveliness, Caleb captures what caused it:
Eight years before, she had probably been exceedingly pretty, as her sister was now. But in those eight years, suffering and love had etched character into her face, and calmness and knowledge of life into her eyes. And she was beautiful as a result.
Barbara has her dance with Caleb—he visits her home one evening and teaches her how to waltz. When he kisses her as one might “kiss a dear sister,” Barbara throws herself into his arms and returns his kiss with yearning and passion. Readers of Balogh know that in her stories physical intimacy often presages a meeting of hearts and minds. It’s a bellwether of what’s to come. Of course Barbara is embarrassed and Caleb is not quite ready to step across the threshold and leave conventionality behind. When Caleb visits Barbara on Valentine’s Day, bringing a gift for her young son, she smiles and says nothing. Her heart is too full.
She smiled again as he turned to leave the house. She said nothing. She could not. She was waging too fierce a battle against tears. She did not believe that she had ever felt more lonely in her life.
But Balogh, with consummate skill, lightens the scene. Barbara’s heart may be breaking, again, but the new puppy has widdled and life goes on. True love cannot be denied, though, and Caleb comes back to her house to offer Barbara his hand and his heart. She turns him down quite definitely, reminding him once again of her circumstances and saying that it is impossible for her to rejoin respectable society or for her son to become Caleb’s stepson. Caleb is a man in love and he will not be denied, not if Barbara loves him.
He caught her by the shoulders and spun her around to face him. “You are a woman who loved unconditionally,” he said. “Zach is a product of that love.”
Barbara tells Caleb she loves him and she takes her place beside him, her betrothed, at her parents’ Valentine’s Day ball, coming full circle to her earlier wish to take a star out of her pocket and waltz under it. As Caleb tells her, stars “are meant to be danced among,” not hidden in pockets.
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Our protagonists are a widower and a single mother. Caleb White, Viscount Brandon, has finally decided to set aside his grief, two years after the death of his wife. Lady Barbara Hanover, the mother of a seven year-old boy conceived on Valentine’s Day eight years earlier, wonders if life holds anything more for her than her secluded life on her father’s ducal estate. Two people waking up to the realization that
…Valentine’s Day was different. It was a day for lovers, a day for two people, a day when relatives and friends counted for very little. Just that one other. That one dearly beloved other.
What Caleb and Barbara have in common is they’ve both lost love and endured years of empty loneliness. Other than that, however, they could scarcely be more different. Caleb is visiting the Duke of Durham’s primary seat in order to court Lady Eve Hanover, the duke’s youngest daughter. Barbara is mourning the loss of her memories of her soldier-lover, the father of her son Zachery, a casualty of the Battle of Talavera, Spain, 1809.
She was forgetting Zach, and she was restless and longing for something to which she could not—or dared not—put a name. And Valentine’s Day was always the worst day of all. She dreaded it and wished it past already.
As so often happens in Balogh’s stories, a child is the bridge that joins a couple and so it is here. Caleb is delighted by Zachery’s boyish enthusiasms, teaching him how to sail a boat and train his first puppy but he’s certainly not unmindful of Barbara’s serene blonde beauty, even though,
“I am the skeleton in the family closet,” she said.
He looked steadily at her. “Are you?” he said. “But you have a lovely son.”
When Barbara shares that she is not sorry, because her son is all she has of her fallen love, Caleb not only understands, he says, “I have no such memento of my wife. I envy you.” Caleb’s family is warm and demonstrative, quite a contrast to Barbara’s life on the outside of her family circle. Again and again, Balogh writes of the tension between Barbara’s single-minded devotion to her son and her yearning to love and be loved, as when she says, almost in shock after Caleb rescues her son from a dunking, “I have nothing else in the world. Only him.” Barbara believes that her status as an unwed mother is the only measure defining her, dooming “her to living on the fringes of life.” She thinks poignantly that there was “no end to her disgrace, as there was an end to his grief.” She confides to Caleb that she wishes she could dance “among the stars.”
Balogh has an unerring ability to extract the true nature of love between a man and a woman, often delineating it as it unfolds. Attracted to Barbara’s mature loveliness, Caleb captures what caused it:
Eight years before, she had probably been exceedingly pretty, as her sister was now. But in those eight years, suffering and love had etched character into her face, and calmness and knowledge of life into her eyes. And she was beautiful as a result.
Barbara has her dance with Caleb—he visits her home one evening and teaches her how to waltz. When he kisses her as one might “kiss a dear sister,” Barbara throws herself into his arms and returns his kiss with yearning and passion. Readers of Balogh know that in her stories physical intimacy often presages a meeting of hearts and minds. It’s a bellwether of what’s to come. Of course Barbara is embarrassed and Caleb is not quite ready to step across the threshold and leave conventionality behind. When Caleb visits Barbara on Valentine’s Day, bringing a gift for her young son, she smiles and says nothing. Her heart is too full.
She smiled again as he turned to leave the house. She said nothing. She could not. She was waging too fierce a battle against tears. She did not believe that she had ever felt more lonely in her life.
But Balogh, with consummate skill, lightens the scene. Barbara’s heart may be breaking, again, but the new puppy has widdled and life goes on. True love cannot be denied, though, and Caleb comes back to her house to offer Barbara his hand and his heart. She turns him down quite definitely, reminding him once again of her circumstances and saying that it is impossible for her to rejoin respectable society or for her son to become Caleb’s stepson. Caleb is a man in love and he will not be denied, not if Barbara loves him.
He caught her by the shoulders and spun her around to face him. “You are a woman who loved unconditionally,” he said. “Zach is a product of that love.”
Barbara tells Caleb she loves him and she takes her place beside him, her betrothed, at her parents’ Valentine’s Day ball, coming full circle to her earlier wish to take a star out of her pocket and waltz under it. As Caleb tells her, stars “are meant to be danced among,” not hidden in pockets.
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February 25, 2013
I only read Balogh's "A Waltz Beneath the Stars," which is the tale of a young widower who has resolved to remarry despite his continuing grief. His family thinks the Lady Eve, only daughter of a nearby Duke, would be most suitable. But when he arrives at the Duke's estate, he finds that Eve is not the Duke's only daughter after all. Her older sister lives in disgrace in the nearby dower house, and he falls in love with her instead of making a dutiful match with Eve. Their romance is only a few days, which would ordinarily annoy me, but they are so clearly in tune with each other and desperate for companionship that the fast pace made sense. I also liked how Eve was treated--she was annoyed at losing a suitor, but she wasn't the villain of the piece.
Sweet.
Sweet.
October 2, 2021
A very short novella.
The copy I got only had Mary Balogh's story "A Waltz among the Stars"
A cute story. The Hero is a widower, who's wife was ill when he married her, they barely are married a month before she passes away. The heroine is the 'disgraced' daughter of a Duke. She has a child out of wedlock. Her lover was killed in the war before they could be married.
The Hero has been invited along with others to a house party as a potential husband for the heroine's younger sister. The heroine is not included in the party because of her disgrace. she lives in the dower house on the estate. The Hero catches a glimpse of her and her son when he arrives and is intrigued enough to seek her out. From then on he finds any excuse to call on her and her son.
Its a short lovely heartwarming read.
The copy I got only had Mary Balogh's story "A Waltz among the Stars"
A cute story. The Hero is a widower, who's wife was ill when he married her, they barely are married a month before she passes away. The heroine is the 'disgraced' daughter of a Duke. She has a child out of wedlock. Her lover was killed in the war before they could be married.
The Hero has been invited along with others to a house party as a potential husband for the heroine's younger sister. The heroine is not included in the party because of her disgrace. she lives in the dower house on the estate. The Hero catches a glimpse of her and her son when he arrives and is intrigued enough to seek her out. From then on he finds any excuse to call on her and her son.
Its a short lovely heartwarming read.
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September 27, 2025I read Mary Balogh's story which was a quick encounter between a grieving widower and a shunned single mother who lost her lover in Talavera. Sweet with puppies. I wanted some resolution with the sister he was supposed to woo.
November 18, 2017
A walk among the stars
October 5, 2019
A waltz among the stars by Mary Balogh
reprint
April 12, 2020Read/own Balogh a Waltz among the Stars in rerelease A day among the Stars
July 17, 2022
A waltz among the stars was a nice second chance romance from both widowers. It was a nice story of pain and finding love again.
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April 23, 2023Five short Valentine stories by five different authors. A quick read but very enjoyable
August 30, 2023
A short and sweet, easy read.
July 29, 2022
I didn’t even like Balogh’s.
June 16, 2019
This is a pleasant compilation of short Regency stories by some of the best names in this genre. This book was first published in 1992.
A TASK FOR CUPID (Carol Proctor)
Denzil Huntingford has two problems: He is in love with Miss Amabel Penworth and he has no idea how to woo her. Worse than that, he is shy and is socially inept (can't maintain social chatter). Denzil's Grand-mama, the Marchioness of Witley, decides to take him in hand and teach him what he needs to know. There ensues a tiresome number of pages in which Grand-mama tries various approaches with her grandson. This was a tedious story.
A WALTZ AMONG THE STARS (Mary Balogh)
The Duke of Durham has two daughters; the elder one, Lady Barbara Hanover, is barred from society because she had a child (Zachary) out-of-wedlock. She lives in the dower house on the duke's property but stays out of the main house. The younger one is Eve and she is expecting Lord Caleb White, a lonely widower, to pay her address and ask for her hand in marriage. Things do not go as planned; this is a story rich in emotion and grace.
THE LIGHT WITHIN (Carla Kelly)
American-born Quaker Blessing Whittier is in England searching for answers regarding her husband's maritime death. The British Admiralty is ignoring her day after day. Lord Thomas Waggoner is trying to reel in his spend-thrift older brother before he spends his entire inheritance. He decides to kidnap his brother's paramour, hoping to let her know that his brother is almost bankrupt. He gets the next-door American Quaker instead and things evolve from there.
This is a well-written story that seems a bit silly.
THE MIDSUMMER VALENTINE (Sandra Heath)
A mysterious masked stranger danced with Georgina Hartford at a midsummer ball and suddenly disappeared immediately thereafter. Georgina has never forgotten him and often dreams of the enchanting night. While visiting her sister, she decides to crash the betrothal party of a neighbor: Sir Richard Marriot. At his ball, he recognizes Georgina. There seemed to be too many coincidences to make this a realistic and satisfying plot.
THE LEGACY (Edith Layton)
Ex-Captain in His Majesty's Light Hussars, Valerian Blackwood, and his cousin Bolton Blackwood have come to visit their old uncle who has one interest in life -- hunting antiquities. Bolton is convinced that the manor (he will eventually inherit) is being systematically stripped of its valuables (and replaced with reproductions). Aghast, Bolton wants Valerian to help him investigate. Bolton gets his comeuppance at the end. However, the story was dull.
A TASK FOR CUPID (Carol Proctor)
Denzil Huntingford has two problems: He is in love with Miss Amabel Penworth and he has no idea how to woo her. Worse than that, he is shy and is socially inept (can't maintain social chatter). Denzil's Grand-mama, the Marchioness of Witley, decides to take him in hand and teach him what he needs to know. There ensues a tiresome number of pages in which Grand-mama tries various approaches with her grandson. This was a tedious story.
A WALTZ AMONG THE STARS (Mary Balogh)
The Duke of Durham has two daughters; the elder one, Lady Barbara Hanover, is barred from society because she had a child (Zachary) out-of-wedlock. She lives in the dower house on the duke's property but stays out of the main house. The younger one is Eve and she is expecting Lord Caleb White, a lonely widower, to pay her address and ask for her hand in marriage. Things do not go as planned; this is a story rich in emotion and grace.
THE LIGHT WITHIN (Carla Kelly)
American-born Quaker Blessing Whittier is in England searching for answers regarding her husband's maritime death. The British Admiralty is ignoring her day after day. Lord Thomas Waggoner is trying to reel in his spend-thrift older brother before he spends his entire inheritance. He decides to kidnap his brother's paramour, hoping to let her know that his brother is almost bankrupt. He gets the next-door American Quaker instead and things evolve from there.
This is a well-written story that seems a bit silly.
THE MIDSUMMER VALENTINE (Sandra Heath)
A mysterious masked stranger danced with Georgina Hartford at a midsummer ball and suddenly disappeared immediately thereafter. Georgina has never forgotten him and often dreams of the enchanting night. While visiting her sister, she decides to crash the betrothal party of a neighbor: Sir Richard Marriot. At his ball, he recognizes Georgina. There seemed to be too many coincidences to make this a realistic and satisfying plot.
THE LEGACY (Edith Layton)
Ex-Captain in His Majesty's Light Hussars, Valerian Blackwood, and his cousin Bolton Blackwood have come to visit their old uncle who has one interest in life -- hunting antiquities. Bolton is convinced that the manor (he will eventually inherit) is being systematically stripped of its valuables (and replaced with reproductions). Aghast, Bolton wants Valerian to help him investigate. Bolton gets his comeuppance at the end. However, the story was dull.
April 3, 2020
Balogh - "A Waltz Among the Stars"
October 18, 2015
1 Carol Proctor - A Task for Cupid page 7 / 84
Not a bad story but not very memorable as well . 2.5 stars
2 Mary Balogh - A Waltz Among the Stars page 85 / 154
Original story and skilfully told 5+ stars
3 Carla Kelly - The Light Within page 155 / 217
If you read Miss Whittier Makes a List ( I did ) you will probably appreciate this story more than those who did not 4 stars
4 Sandra Heath - The Midsummer Valentine page 219 / 296
Sweet story 4 stars
5 Edith Layton - The Legacy page 297 / 351
Not bad , not good 2,5 stars
Not a bad story but not very memorable as well . 2.5 stars
2 Mary Balogh - A Waltz Among the Stars page 85 / 154
Original story and skilfully told 5+ stars
3 Carla Kelly - The Light Within page 155 / 217
If you read Miss Whittier Makes a List ( I did ) you will probably appreciate this story more than those who did not 4 stars
4 Sandra Heath - The Midsummer Valentine page 219 / 296
Sweet story 4 stars
5 Edith Layton - The Legacy page 297 / 351
Not bad , not good 2,5 stars
December 30, 2012
Short story. Light Within by Carla Kelly only. 60 pages.
I just have the ebook for this one story, which is a very sweet PG love story about an American Quaker and a poor English Lord. I don't think I've ever read this author before, but plan on reading more of her stuff.
I just have the ebook for this one story, which is a very sweet PG love story about an American Quaker and a poor English Lord. I don't think I've ever read this author before, but plan on reading more of her stuff.
July 16, 2013
Rating for: A Waltz Among the Stars by Mary Balogh
March 25, 2017
I have only read A Waltz Among the Stars by Mary Balogh. There is not a standalone entry for this short story so am using this Anthology which includes it.
Cute for a short story. It always feels rushed & a little unrealistic when a hole love story is put into a short story. So it was cute for what it could be.
Cute for a short story. It always feels rushed & a little unrealistic when a hole love story is put into a short story. So it was cute for what it could be.
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April 25, 2017Read the Balogh story. Just lovely.
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