Lady Serena's Surrender

by Jeanne Savery

Jeanne Savery, author of thirteen Zebra Regencies, continues to delight readers. Here, she tells of Serena Dixon, who is forced to marry a man she's never met...and finds herself surrendering to love.

Genres: Regency, Romance, Clean Romance, Historical Romance

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Jeanne Savery has lived and travelled in Great Britain with her spouse, an American Professor of British Politics. An American herself, she is descended from the English (via her father) and the Scots (via her mother).

She first read the Regency Romances of Georgette Heyer while living in Sidcup, Kent. She reread them while living in Whitstable, Kent. The dialogue was charming, but the detail was forbidding: No mistakes! That's the watchword.

For library research, she amassed (and read) a library of diaries, letters, memoirs, yearbooks, etc., from the era. For field research, she (and her spouse) repeatedly crisscrossed the island of Great Britain. Their two daughters fondly recall a family jaunt (with bed and breakfast) in August, 1973: London to Pembroke to Chester to Carlisle to Stirling to Edinburgh to Hawick ... to London.

She published her first Regency Romance in 1991. Since then, she has published more numerous novels and novellas.

She has received the Reader's Choice Award and been awarded the Holt Medallion. She is a member of Novelists, Inc. and Romance Writers of America.

Reviews

[Eden · Rating 5 out of 5]

2019 - bk 146. Book #2 of the White Tiger Series (I also refer to this as "The Six" series. Ian Stewart, is mourning the death of his brother, when his father informs him that the wedding contract between Serena Dixon and his brother is now to be fulfilled by himself. Believing he if fulfilling a mysterious vow made to Jamie on his death bed, Ian resigns himself to a new bride, little knowing that she does not wish to wed. This was one of the first regencies I read that so clearly described the fact that women were not legally alive as individuals in England, that although they had just received the right to agree or disagree to a particular groom, that most did not know they had that right - and in most cases that right was not enforceable. Add to that was the psychological abuses Serena and her mother suffered, this is one of the heaviest books of the series. It isn't lighthearted, but it is enchanting in how Ian goes about convincing Serena that all men are not her father and how marriages best work in cordial partnership tempered heavily by love. Sahib the tiger has his hands in convincing Serena that she has fallen in love with Ian and that they can make marriage work. Well worth the read, particularly on a sunny day.

[Kathleen Burns · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed it. Purchased two others.