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Bath Trilogy #2
Bath Charade
Miss Carolyn Hardy adored novels of the most romantic sort--and longed for a man to equal their dashing heroes. With her beauty and charm, Carolyn had a swarm of suitors to search among. There was the wealthy Brandon Manningford. The rakish Viscount Lyndhurst. The daunting Duke of Cumberland. And most handsome and romantic of all, an actual gypsy prince who called himself only Salas.
How eager Carolyn was to find her heart's desire. How willing she was to risk danger to do it. How angry she was at her guardian, the elegant Sydney Saint-Denis, for trying to keep her in check. And how little did she realize how much more startling and wonderful true love could be than romantic fiction.
How eager Carolyn was to find her heart's desire. How willing she was to risk danger to do it. How angry she was at her guardian, the elegant Sydney Saint-Denis, for trying to keep her in check. And how little did she realize how much more startling and wonderful true love could be than romantic fiction.
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 1991
About the author
Amanda Scott
176 books385 followersAmanda Scott, USA Today Bestselling Author and winner of Romance Writers of America’s RITA/Golden Medallion (LORD ABBERLEY'S NEMESIS) and Romantic Times’ Awards for Best Regency Author and Best Sensual Regency (RAVENWOOD'S LADY), Lifetime Achievement (2007) and Best Scottish Historical (BORDER MOONLIGHT, 2008), began writing on a dare from her husband. She has sold every manuscript she has written.
Amanda is a fourth-generation Californian, who was born and raised in Salinas and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Mills College in Oakland. She did graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in British History, before obtaining her Master’s in History from California State University at San Jose. She now lives with her husband and son in northern California.
As a child, Amanda Scott was a model for O’Connor Moffatt in San Francisco (now Macy’s). She was also a Sputnik child, one of those selected after the satellite went up for one of California’s first programs for gifted children. She remained in that program through high school. After graduate school, she taught for the Salinas City School District for three years before marrying her husband, who was then a captain in the Air Force. They lived in Honolulu for a year, then in Papillion, Nebraska, for seven. Their son was born in Nebraska. They have lived in northern California since 1980.
Scott grew up in a family of lawyers, and is descended from a long line of them. Her father was a three-term District Attorney of Monterey County before his death in 1955 at age 36. Her grandfather was City Attorney of Salinas for 36 years after serving two terms as District Attorney, and two of her ancestors were State Supreme Court Justices (one in Missouri, the other the first Supreme Court Justice for the State of Arkansas). One brother, having carried on the Scott tradition in the Monterey County DA’s office, is now a judge. The other is an electrician in Knoxville, TN, and her sister is a teacher in the Sacramento area.
The women of Amanda Scott’s family have been no less successful than the men. Her mother was a child actress known as Baby Lowell, who performed all over the west coast and in Hollywood movies, and then was a dancer with the San Francisco Opera Ballet until her marriage. Her mother’s sister, Loretta Lowell, was also a child actress. She performed in the Our Gang comedies and in several Loretta Young movies before becoming one of the first women in the US Air Force. Scott's paternal grandmother was active in local and State politics and served as president of the California State PTA, and her maternal grandmother was a teacher (and stage mother) before working for Monterey County. The place of women in Scott’s family has always been a strong one. Though they married strong men, the women have, for generations, been well educated and encouraged to succeed at whatever they chose to do.
Amanda Scott’s first book was OMAHA CITY ARCHITECTURE, a coffee-table photo essay on the historical architecture of Omaha, written for Landmarks, Inc. under her married name as a Junior League project. Others took the photos; she did the research and wrote the text on an old Smith-Corona portable electric. She sold her first novel, THE FUGITIVE HEIRESS - likewise written on the battered Smith-Corona in 1980. Since then, she has sold many more books, but since the second one she has used a word processor and computer. Twenty-five of her novels are set in the English Regency period (1810-1820). Others are set in 15th-century England and 14th- through 18th-century Scotland, and three are contemporary romances. Many of her titles are currently available at bookstores and online.
Amanda is a fourth-generation Californian, who was born and raised in Salinas and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Mills College in Oakland. She did graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in British History, before obtaining her Master’s in History from California State University at San Jose. She now lives with her husband and son in northern California.
As a child, Amanda Scott was a model for O’Connor Moffatt in San Francisco (now Macy’s). She was also a Sputnik child, one of those selected after the satellite went up for one of California’s first programs for gifted children. She remained in that program through high school. After graduate school, she taught for the Salinas City School District for three years before marrying her husband, who was then a captain in the Air Force. They lived in Honolulu for a year, then in Papillion, Nebraska, for seven. Their son was born in Nebraska. They have lived in northern California since 1980.
Scott grew up in a family of lawyers, and is descended from a long line of them. Her father was a three-term District Attorney of Monterey County before his death in 1955 at age 36. Her grandfather was City Attorney of Salinas for 36 years after serving two terms as District Attorney, and two of her ancestors were State Supreme Court Justices (one in Missouri, the other the first Supreme Court Justice for the State of Arkansas). One brother, having carried on the Scott tradition in the Monterey County DA’s office, is now a judge. The other is an electrician in Knoxville, TN, and her sister is a teacher in the Sacramento area.
The women of Amanda Scott’s family have been no less successful than the men. Her mother was a child actress known as Baby Lowell, who performed all over the west coast and in Hollywood movies, and then was a dancer with the San Francisco Opera Ballet until her marriage. Her mother’s sister, Loretta Lowell, was also a child actress. She performed in the Our Gang comedies and in several Loretta Young movies before becoming one of the first women in the US Air Force. Scott's paternal grandmother was active in local and State politics and served as president of the California State PTA, and her maternal grandmother was a teacher (and stage mother) before working for Monterey County. The place of women in Scott’s family has always been a strong one. Though they married strong men, the women have, for generations, been well educated and encouraged to succeed at whatever they chose to do.
Amanda Scott’s first book was OMAHA CITY ARCHITECTURE, a coffee-table photo essay on the historical architecture of Omaha, written for Landmarks, Inc. under her married name as a Junior League project. Others took the photos; she did the research and wrote the text on an old Smith-Corona portable electric. She sold her first novel, THE FUGITIVE HEIRESS - likewise written on the battered Smith-Corona in 1980. Since then, she has sold many more books, but since the second one she has used a word processor and computer. Twenty-five of her novels are set in the English Regency period (1810-1820). Others are set in 15th-century England and 14th- through 18th-century Scotland, and three are contemporary romances. Many of her titles are currently available at bookstores and online.
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January 13, 2018
Horrible.
This young lady Carolyn spouts off about a character in her book bring idiotic when she herself is the exact same. Firstly, not listening to anyone telling her how dangerous Viscount Lyndhurst is and being nearly raped by him. Then picking up a Gypsy and trying to pass him off as a gentleman. I don't recommend this book. The first book in this trilogy was good. This one is horrible.
This young lady Carolyn spouts off about a character in her book bring idiotic when she herself is the exact same. Firstly, not listening to anyone telling her how dangerous Viscount Lyndhurst is and being nearly raped by him. Then picking up a Gypsy and trying to pass him off as a gentleman. I don't recommend this book. The first book in this trilogy was good. This one is horrible.
July 31, 2026
I actually got only the first few chapters at the end of the first book as a teaser and that main character gives me no desire to finish. That’s also why I’m not putting spoiler on since these are just the opening chapters I read.
She gets forcibly kissed and felt up then turns around and immediately dismisses it. She literally thinks to herself, “Lyndhurst was not really dangerous, after all. It was only the dark garden and her own active imagination that had made him seem so.” You kidding me? He went full boob grab under your dress while you were trying to fight off his kiss and that was just your active imagination? SMH
Her rescuer states he knows more about British males nature’s than she does (since he is one) and she dismisses it. By the end of the teaser, she’s had her attention caught by a handsome “Gypsy” man and she’s all I wanted to teach Sydney (the previously mentioned rescuer who tried to teach her a self defense move right after saving her) and this guy might be the way to prove it. Teach him a lesson about what? That he said he knows more about how men think than you do? So this is just gonna be more farcical, annoying, and dumb from there?
Yeah I’m out. She’s TSTL
It’s kind of a disappointment too, bc the author had written Sydney in the previous book as kind of a dark horse, hidden depths type character, which interested me. But then she paired him with this person and now I’m afraid the execution on his character would have disappointed me too so maybe it’s a good thing I don’t get to know more about him.
She gets forcibly kissed and felt up then turns around and immediately dismisses it. She literally thinks to herself, “Lyndhurst was not really dangerous, after all. It was only the dark garden and her own active imagination that had made him seem so.” You kidding me? He went full boob grab under your dress while you were trying to fight off his kiss and that was just your active imagination? SMH
Her rescuer states he knows more about British males nature’s than she does (since he is one) and she dismisses it. By the end of the teaser, she’s had her attention caught by a handsome “Gypsy” man and she’s all I wanted to teach Sydney (the previously mentioned rescuer who tried to teach her a self defense move right after saving her) and this guy might be the way to prove it. Teach him a lesson about what? That he said he knows more about how men think than you do? So this is just gonna be more farcical, annoying, and dumb from there?
Yeah I’m out. She’s TSTL
It’s kind of a disappointment too, bc the author had written Sydney in the previous book as kind of a dark horse, hidden depths type character, which interested me. But then she paired him with this person and now I’m afraid the execution on his character would have disappointed me too so maybe it’s a good thing I don’t get to know more about him.
August 17, 2022
I love the cover artwork, artist my favorite Regency Romance book genre covers.
The hero seems to want romantic heroes in her life after reading romance novels. Interesting her interactions with the Hero of the story. But the storyline was lost more than once with addition of appearance of Prince of Wales, etc. Disjointed. Confusing where the story was going.
The hero seems to want romantic heroes in her life after reading romance novels. Interesting her interactions with the Hero of the story. But the storyline was lost more than once with addition of appearance of Prince of Wales, etc. Disjointed. Confusing where the story was going.
September 2, 2022
Really a 3.5. Even though the heroine is involved in many things that she should not be, her frustration with her situation is easily understood. The author was able to describe the absolute boredom and lack of any self determination by women in the regency period. The description of the companion was a frightening reminder of what little control a woman had of her future.
May 2, 2018
I enjoyed it, but thought the first book in the trilogy was better. It did keep me reading though, and I'm reading the third in the series. The main character didn't grab me as much as the first book's, but I still enjoyed it. And on thinking it over the next day - it's been growing on me.
November 21, 2025
The fop and the firebrand, who would think it. Like the continuation of characters.
April 22, 2021
I LOVED following Sydney finding his girl. He was such a compelling character in the first book to this series, and once I saw who the main hero was for the second novel I began it then and there. The heroine is feisty, the relationships between the main and secondary characters well rounded and detailed intricately, and the dialogue is exceptional. It was so much fun to take a peak at the Royal family at this time, and see just what effect their craziness would have had on those of the aristocracy that had to brush shoulders with them. Just a really good time!
July 8, 2013
A pleasant story with an intricate plot, interesting characters and a couple who fall in love.
The heroine is fun, impulsive, fights boredom by making mischief. Her favorite target for practical jokes is the hero, a long time childhood friend. She has always been of the mind that she must always do what she is ordered not to do.
The hero has worked long and hard to control the temper he was born with, finally finding Chinese techniques the most useful. The one person who tests his temper is a childhood friend turned beautiful woman. When her larks sparks his emotions, he is not certain if he should throttle her or kiss her senseless.
Written similar to Herye's stories, but for the modern reader, the character interactions, crisp dialogue and interesting day-in-the-life events (such as a visit from the Prince Regent) provide for a pleasant plot unpredictability.
I have read all three of the books in the series and thoroughly enjoyed each one.
Really is nice to read a series of romance novels that don't rely upon sex to sell the story.
The heroine is fun, impulsive, fights boredom by making mischief. Her favorite target for practical jokes is the hero, a long time childhood friend. She has always been of the mind that she must always do what she is ordered not to do.
The hero has worked long and hard to control the temper he was born with, finally finding Chinese techniques the most useful. The one person who tests his temper is a childhood friend turned beautiful woman. When her larks sparks his emotions, he is not certain if he should throttle her or kiss her senseless.
Written similar to Herye's stories, but for the modern reader, the character interactions, crisp dialogue and interesting day-in-the-life events (such as a visit from the Prince Regent) provide for a pleasant plot unpredictability.
I have read all three of the books in the series and thoroughly enjoyed each one.
Really is nice to read a series of romance novels that don't rely upon sex to sell the story.
March 18, 2010
This was the first time in all my years of reading of regency romances that I read one with kung fu fighting, shallow lecherous jerks and gypsy 'princes' given a realistic treatment, and where the royal family of the time is portrayed as active characters within the plot. That said, I have to admit it was a fun read, with an odd mix of fantastic and realistic elements.
March 30, 2016
I like this more than the first entry in the series. The hero and heroine were likable and the things they did seemed to arise from their personalities rather than being forced on them so that the plot could advance.
April 1, 2017
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