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Lady Caraway's Cloak
WILL A FOOLISH LIE BEGET A FIERY LOVE?
Lady Serena Caraway had always prided herself on being sensible and level-headed. Yet when the estate she calls home passed from her late brother to a distant relation, Robin, the new Lord Caraway, Serena did a most foolish thing: She wrote to him at his residence abroad--not as a young lady, which would have been shocking enough, but in the guise of the Caraway Estate bailiff. She only meant to write once. She never intended to continue deceiving him. But his replies were so engaging, his grasp of every situation so keen, that before she knew it she had put pen to paper once more. Only now, Serena is at her wit's end. For Lord Caraway has returned to England and wants very much to know what has become of his bailiff.
Which leaves Serena crossing swords with a tall, dark and devastatingly handsome earl who makes it dangerously clear that he won't rest until he uncovers the truth--and every other dazzling secret the mysterious and enticing Lady Caraway has to hide...
Lady Serena Caraway had always prided herself on being sensible and level-headed. Yet when the estate she calls home passed from her late brother to a distant relation, Robin, the new Lord Caraway, Serena did a most foolish thing: She wrote to him at his residence abroad--not as a young lady, which would have been shocking enough, but in the guise of the Caraway Estate bailiff. She only meant to write once. She never intended to continue deceiving him. But his replies were so engaging, his grasp of every situation so keen, that before she knew it she had put pen to paper once more. Only now, Serena is at her wit's end. For Lord Caraway has returned to England and wants very much to know what has become of his bailiff.
Which leaves Serena crossing swords with a tall, dark and devastatingly handsome earl who makes it dangerously clear that he won't rest until he uncovers the truth--and every other dazzling secret the mysterious and enticing Lady Caraway has to hide...
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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Hayley Ann Solomon
26 books7 followersHayley Solomon lives in the beautiful river city of Wanganui on the North Island of New Zealand together with her three adorable sons—Raoul, Raphael and Rhaz—and the love of her life, husband Clive. Her home is filled with music—from the lilting strains of Vivaldi and Bach, to the virtuoso violin performances of 'twinkle twinkle little star' by her five year old son.She spends many nights star and planet gazing—the southern skies are heavenly—and enjoys reading, camping and learning classical guitar.
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March 9, 2014
There's this funny thing about books... they're influenced by their authors. It's actually kind of amazing how a good writer can make a book THAT much better, and a not-so-good writer can kill it, completely.
This is the latter.
It would've been a good book, but... nope, it would never have been a good book.
First, the cover. Tim Robbins looks NOTHING like the long haired, swashbuckling pirate/lord in the book, and yet there Timmy is, on the cover. GAG. Then next to him it says, "A scandalous deception leaves a lady caught between love and lies". Referring, of course, to her pretending to be the castle bailiff and writing to advise the lord about the goings-on at the estate. Except it really was never scandalous in the book, as nobody found out about it. And that 'scandal' was overshadowed the entire time by three other potential-but-not scandals: his lordship actually being a reknown pirate, the captain not really courting the heroine, and the foiled plot by a prince introduced twenty pages from the end.
Second, the author thinks everyone in the world is moronic. NOBODY knows that Lord Robin who wears a red ribbon in his hair and spends all his time on his ship 'The Albatross' is really a pirate called 'Robin Red-Ribbon'. Already the book is ridiculous.
Then there's the fact that the book is supposed to be a love story utilizing the writing theme of correspondence, but yet AGAIN there are no letters in this book (save one at the end, to try to explain away the hoax). Frustrating to someone who got the book for THAT theme.
Then there's the 'false' bailiff, Gabriel Addington. WHERE did the name Gabriel come from? We're never told. Weird.
The book is called 'Lady Caraway's Cloak' which is actually a double entendre: both the 'mantle' of aloof knowledge and sensibility that keeps her away from me, and the cloak he pulls her handwriting out of and realizes she's the bailiff. Except she's NOT sensible - the author has her blathering and babbling every time Lord Robin mentions the bailiff. And a sensible woman would tell the truth from the moment he arrived home.
Then there was the author. GAH, I had to skim like MAD, because she over-described every thought, mannerism used, inner turmoil, outward manifestation of EVERY character in the scene. If it were pertinent, sure... but she was just talking to talk, half the time.
Skip it. Not worth the time.
This is the latter.
It would've been a good book, but... nope, it would never have been a good book.
First, the cover. Tim Robbins looks NOTHING like the long haired, swashbuckling pirate/lord in the book, and yet there Timmy is, on the cover. GAG. Then next to him it says, "A scandalous deception leaves a lady caught between love and lies". Referring, of course, to her pretending to be the castle bailiff and writing to advise the lord about the goings-on at the estate. Except it really was never scandalous in the book, as nobody found out about it. And that 'scandal' was overshadowed the entire time by three other potential-but-not scandals: his lordship actually being a reknown pirate, the captain not really courting the heroine, and the foiled plot by a prince introduced twenty pages from the end.
Second, the author thinks everyone in the world is moronic. NOBODY knows that Lord Robin who wears a red ribbon in his hair and spends all his time on his ship 'The Albatross' is really a pirate called 'Robin Red-Ribbon'. Already the book is ridiculous.
Then there's the fact that the book is supposed to be a love story utilizing the writing theme of correspondence, but yet AGAIN there are no letters in this book (save one at the end, to try to explain away the hoax). Frustrating to someone who got the book for THAT theme.
Then there's the 'false' bailiff, Gabriel Addington. WHERE did the name Gabriel come from? We're never told. Weird.
The book is called 'Lady Caraway's Cloak' which is actually a double entendre: both the 'mantle' of aloof knowledge and sensibility that keeps her away from me, and the cloak he pulls her handwriting out of and realizes she's the bailiff. Except she's NOT sensible - the author has her blathering and babbling every time Lord Robin mentions the bailiff. And a sensible woman would tell the truth from the moment he arrived home.
Then there was the author. GAH, I had to skim like MAD, because she over-described every thought, mannerism used, inner turmoil, outward manifestation of EVERY character in the scene. If it were pertinent, sure... but she was just talking to talk, half the time.
Skip it. Not worth the time.
October 26, 2012
Very stilted writing and the plot was all over the place.
November 17, 2020
A strong female charactor in a good regency novel. Male character was well written.
December 16, 2020
3 stars - it would’ve been 4, but it devolved into a caper at the end... I came here for romance, not historical heist jobs...
November 11, 2011
Yes, this took place in the Regency era but there didn't seem to me to be much romance.
June 22, 2016
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