The Impossible Ward
A heart-warming Regency adventure story

This was a nice little read with not much of a story but a simple love take between a marquis and an ordinary girl who later finds out she belonged to a noble class......more

I tell you what, this book might really be 3.5 stars except for the way Ms. Mack knows how to spin her heroes. Woo! She gets the brooding man down pact! And I'm trash for it. In keeping with regency romance and the final understanding and kiss not being (typically) until the last page, Mack makes su......more

Not bad, but frustrating in parts because, as so often seems to happen with non-British writers of fiction set in Regency England, it clearly hasn't been Britpicked. Sigh. There are other reasons too, but meh, I read this sort of thing for unchallenging literary comfort food, so I won't dwell on it.......more

Impossible to turn a unwanted but not forgotten country bumpkin into a wealthy lady to be presented to the ton in London. A huge chore but the last wish of her father whom she never met. Marianne was never seen by her father because her mother died in childbirth and it was too painful for him. He al......more

The story begins with a Marquess named a trustee of a woman who is 22, was never acknowledged by her father, no one knew he was even married. Marianne was raised by her maternal grandparents whose income came from her father. All of this was unknown to her because she thought her father had died in......more