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The Corinthians Series #1
Lord Harry's Angel
When the fabulously rich and lovely Angela Walters wed Major Harry Davenport, the sixth earl of Castleton, they both knew the terms of the agreement: Angela would get the title her father wanted for her, while the good major would get the hard cash he so desperately lacked. Now, if only Angela could remember to listen to reason and not to her foolish heart. Original Regency Romance.
224 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1993
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Patricia Oliver
25 books16 followersPatricia Oliver is a pen name of Patricia De La Fuente. Between 1993 and 2002 she wrote for the Signet Regency Romance imprint and for Jove under her other pseudonym Olivia Fontayne.
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October 25, 2025
Read: 10/24/25
Setting: Regency England
Trope: injured solider, MOC, fortune hunter
This was bad!
The H was horrid! He was a snob and had a disgust of tradesmen. He hates that he has to marry for money (ok) and he has no desire of mixing his blood with a daughter of trade ( a**hole!). I hated him from the beginning and my opinion never changed.
I loved the h! She was clever and witty, except when choosing to marry the H. It made no sense! She saw his disgust of her. She finally agreed to the marriage because she wanted children then he informs her that he already has an heir. So what does she do? Well, marry him, of course 🤷♀️ So she gets to stay a virgin all while paying the bills of people who disrespect her daily. 👍 Her husband avoids her and her MIL is super crazy. Now, the H did show her some respect in the marriage but that's it! This was not a romance!
conclusion: This was a waste of a great h! It's a shame she's stuck in such a bad story
Setting: Regency England
Trope: injured solider, MOC, fortune hunter
This was bad!
The H was horrid! He was a snob and had a disgust of tradesmen. He hates that he has to marry for money (ok) and he has no desire of mixing his blood with a daughter of trade ( a**hole!). I hated him from the beginning and my opinion never changed.
I loved the h! She was clever and witty, except when choosing to marry the H. It made no sense! She saw his disgust of her. She finally agreed to the marriage because she wanted children then he informs her that he already has an heir. So what does she do? Well, marry him, of course 🤷♀️ So she gets to stay a virgin all while paying the bills of people who disrespect her daily. 👍 Her husband avoids her and her MIL is super crazy. Now, the H did show her some respect in the marriage but that's it! This was not a romance!
conclusion: This was a waste of a great h! It's a shame she's stuck in such a bad story
June 30, 2018
When Major Harry Davenport, the new earl of Castleton Abbey, returned to his home, he found the estate in disrepair and mortgaged to the hilt. The news was bitter and the solution given to him was unacceptable. He had to marry money if he wanted to save the family name.
Miss Angela Walter was a cit’s daughter. It did not matter that she was the granddaughter of an earl, educated in the ways of a hostess, smart and beautiful. She was a trader’s heiress and at a time when class distinctions mattered, it left a bitter taste in the mouth of the nobleman.
Unfortunately, there were two strikes against this romance. I struggled in my attempt to like Harry. He remained aloof for much of the story. He had a temper. To be honest, Angela had a temper, too, except I found her reasons for getting upset justified.
The upside to this emotional narrative was just that. It was emotional. Lots of tension. Trust issues. Frustration. It may not make sense when I say it was well-written but it was and I finished the story because I needed their HEA.
I wasn’t sure if I should rate it 1-3 stars depending on what Harry said, did or didn’t do. Instead, I am rounding it off at 2.
Miss Angela Walter was a cit’s daughter. It did not matter that she was the granddaughter of an earl, educated in the ways of a hostess, smart and beautiful. She was a trader’s heiress and at a time when class distinctions mattered, it left a bitter taste in the mouth of the nobleman.
Unfortunately, there were two strikes against this romance. I struggled in my attempt to like Harry. He remained aloof for much of the story. He had a temper. To be honest, Angela had a temper, too, except I found her reasons for getting upset justified.
The upside to this emotional narrative was just that. It was emotional. Lots of tension. Trust issues. Frustration. It may not make sense when I say it was well-written but it was and I finished the story because I needed their HEA.
I wasn’t sure if I should rate it 1-3 stars depending on what Harry said, did or didn’t do. Instead, I am rounding it off at 2.
February 3, 2015
My dearest Patricia Oliver, I have a feeling that you and I are going to have a bit of a love/hate relationship...
I was pleasantly surprised when I picked up this book from the Patricia Oliver collection of Regencies that I have, and found that it was written in the classical, humour-filled and old fashioned style reminiscent of Georgette Heyer. I was pulled in from the beginning by the unusual setting (the heroine is a Cit's daughter who agrees to an arranged marriage with an Earl) and the brewing plot. I knew I was in for something good and out of the ordinary, and overall I really, really enjoyed it.
Unfortunately there were a few things in the second half of the books that marred my enjoyment considerably. For thing, I never warmed up to the hero. He was a stuck-up, proud and overbearing toplofty Earl, and remains stuck-up, proud, overbearing and toplofty until the very end. I enjoy a brooding, disagreeable hero who gets un-starched by the heroine as much as the next Regency fan, but I had serious problems with the fact that Harry lacked any character development. His attitude led to a painful scene of domestic rape between him and the heroine (not explicit, but implied), and although he repents and would probably never do anything so horrid again, we never get to see his full redemption, and things between him and Angela are left hanging at the end. There is seriously an entire chapter missing, because if ever a book needed a proper make-up, love declaration scene, it's this one, and it doesn't have one. The ending is not sad, but it's unfinished. According to the person from whom I bought the collection of Oliver books, this one is supposed to the first of a series including fifteen novels. So I thought that perhaps things were left hanging in this one but completed in the next book, but after having now read the second book, I am sorry to think that the author does not plan on returning to these characters, and the only way to make the ending satisfactory is for me to pull out a pen and manually write "I LOVE YOU, ANGELA!" as the proper ending on the last page.
One of the main reasons why I read Regency romance, is for that, the romance. And if I can't bring myself to like the hero or the heroine, I feel that I can't enjoy the book to its full potential. I would have given Lord Harry's Angel and un-shameful full five stars had it not been for those ^^ issues, because the plot was compelling, the secondary characters were fun and the story was well-written. I am glad to have discovered another Regency author who can pull off the traditional style tastefully, and I very much look forward to reading more books by her.
I was pleasantly surprised when I picked up this book from the Patricia Oliver collection of Regencies that I have, and found that it was written in the classical, humour-filled and old fashioned style reminiscent of Georgette Heyer. I was pulled in from the beginning by the unusual setting (the heroine is a Cit's daughter who agrees to an arranged marriage with an Earl) and the brewing plot. I knew I was in for something good and out of the ordinary, and overall I really, really enjoyed it.
Unfortunately there were a few things in the second half of the books that marred my enjoyment considerably. For thing, I never warmed up to the hero. He was a stuck-up, proud and overbearing toplofty Earl, and remains stuck-up, proud, overbearing and toplofty until the very end. I enjoy a brooding, disagreeable hero who gets un-starched by the heroine as much as the next Regency fan, but I had serious problems with the fact that Harry lacked any character development. His attitude led to a painful scene of domestic rape between him and the heroine (not explicit, but implied), and although he repents and would probably never do anything so horrid again, we never get to see his full redemption, and things between him and Angela are left hanging at the end. There is seriously an entire chapter missing, because if ever a book needed a proper make-up, love declaration scene, it's this one, and it doesn't have one. The ending is not sad, but it's unfinished. According to the person from whom I bought the collection of Oliver books, this one is supposed to the first of a series including fifteen novels. So I thought that perhaps things were left hanging in this one but completed in the next book, but after having now read the second book, I am sorry to think that the author does not plan on returning to these characters, and the only way to make the ending satisfactory is for me to pull out a pen and manually write "I LOVE YOU, ANGELA!" as the proper ending on the last page.
One of the main reasons why I read Regency romance, is for that, the romance. And if I can't bring myself to like the hero or the heroine, I feel that I can't enjoy the book to its full potential. I would have given Lord Harry's Angel and un-shameful full five stars had it not been for those ^^ issues, because the plot was compelling, the secondary characters were fun and the story was well-written. I am glad to have discovered another Regency author who can pull off the traditional style tastefully, and I very much look forward to reading more books by her.
September 6, 2016
Patricia Oliver is one of my favorite regency authors. Her writing is superb. I only wish that her books were available on kindle. The small font of paperback traditional regencies is too hard on my eyes.
Lord Harry's Angel is marriage of convenience story rightly done. Both hero and heroine are people to be admired and you know that they deserve their HEA.
Lord Harry's Angel is marriage of convenience story rightly done. Both hero and heroine are people to be admired and you know that they deserve their HEA.
May 10, 2018
Lord Harry's Angel by Patricia Oliver (1993)
Major Harry Davenport inherited after his brother's death. He was now the sixth Earl of Casleton. But that didn't really matter much as Mr. John Hamilton, solicitor and man of business to the Earls of Castleton for the past forty odd years explained that he was very deep in debt. Probably close to 100,000 pounds in debt and that the only way out was marriage. Marriage to a Cit's daughter. Having been in town only two days he laughed at the idea but seeing that was the only way, he agreed to let Mr. Hamilton make inquires. Drastic measures and all that.
Angela Walters had been trained to be a lady by her mother who had been an earl's daughter but disowned when she married Angels's father. Upon meeting Major Davenport (as she like to think of his as instead of Lord Castleton) and having some unusual feelings for him, she agree to marry him.
Harry put all of his efforts into building up his estate with the money given to him and Angela worked to not show to Harry what her foolish heart was telling her.
Lovely story. Happy Reading! ReadingGenie
Major Harry Davenport inherited after his brother's death. He was now the sixth Earl of Casleton. But that didn't really matter much as Mr. John Hamilton, solicitor and man of business to the Earls of Castleton for the past forty odd years explained that he was very deep in debt. Probably close to 100,000 pounds in debt and that the only way out was marriage. Marriage to a Cit's daughter. Having been in town only two days he laughed at the idea but seeing that was the only way, he agreed to let Mr. Hamilton make inquires. Drastic measures and all that.
Angela Walters had been trained to be a lady by her mother who had been an earl's daughter but disowned when she married Angels's father. Upon meeting Major Davenport (as she like to think of his as instead of Lord Castleton) and having some unusual feelings for him, she agree to marry him.
Harry put all of his efforts into building up his estate with the money given to him and Angela worked to not show to Harry what her foolish heart was telling her.
Lovely story. Happy Reading! ReadingGenie
October 4, 2025
less making love more physical assault
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