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Windsor Diaries #3
A Lady Never Lies
Jocelyn Dunkirk is not your typical Victorian lady. She dresses in leather, wears goggles, and is not afraid to get a little grease under her fingernails. Gentlemen avoid her like a dirty rivet.
Richard Windsor, the Prince of Wales, travels through time to claim Jocelyn's heart, but if it isn't one challenge, it's another. He determines to be a constant, steady presence in her life, hoping to prove he'd make a worthy husband.
Jocelyn's facing a bucket full of problems. The prime minister wants her to assist in ending a coal strike before it cripples the nation while her father attempts to recover from a serious injury. Will Jocelyn's dedication to her country and family ruin the one chance she has at love?
Richard Windsor, the Prince of Wales, travels through time to claim Jocelyn's heart, but if it isn't one challenge, it's another. He determines to be a constant, steady presence in her life, hoping to prove he'd make a worthy husband.
Jocelyn's facing a bucket full of problems. The prime minister wants her to assist in ending a coal strike before it cripples the nation while her father attempts to recover from a serious injury. Will Jocelyn's dedication to her country and family ruin the one chance she has at love?
164 pages, Paperback
First published June 10, 2014
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Stephanie Burkhart
44Ìýbooks417ÌýfollowersJust a little about me: I was born in Manchester, NH but live in Castaic, California with my husband, and 2 sons. I have fond memories of Manchester, but have made California my home. I earned a BS in political science from California Baptist University in 1995.
I have been writing since I was 5, first making homemade comic books. Now, I work on creating short stories and novels. I spent 11 years in the US Army and over 7 years in Germany. Writing is a passion that still challenges me.
I have been writing since I was 5, first making homemade comic books. Now, I work on creating short stories and novels. I spent 11 years in the US Army and over 7 years in Germany. Writing is a passion that still challenges me.
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June 7, 2014
A Lady Never Lies by Stephanie Burkhart is a 2014 Desert Breeze Publication. I was provided a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Alice, Grayson, Edmund, Keira and Jocelyn and Richard are all back and they are having just a wee bit of trouble. A reporter has found out about their time tripping activities, Alice is pregnant and has been advised not to travel, and the ring Richard gave Jocelyn has blown up injuring her father badly. This is just in the first few chapters!!
As a refresher, Richard is the Prince of Wales and the keeper of time. Jocelyn is from the Victorian era, but without a mother's influence, her father doted on her. This gives Jocelyn a certain independence other young ladies of her time do not enjoy. However, the downside to that is she is still unmarried and men tend to shy away from her. But, not Richard. Richard wants to marry Jocelyn, but at the moment there are a plethora of problems.
A coal miners strike is threatening to throw the economy into a tailspin and so with her father in critical
condition, Jocelyn has been asked to try and negotiate with the miners. For the sake of her country she agrees, but what about Richard?
Sophia and Jax are on their own time tripping adventure as they deal with Jonas.
Meanwhile, Jack, the nosy reporter gets more than he bargained for when his interest in the time machine gets him a trip back into the past.
As Jocelyn struggles with her duty and Richard struggles with his, they will have to make a choice. In order to be together one will have to make a choice. Remain in their own time or leave it for a life in the past or a life in the future. Which one would you chose?
There was only one question .. I didn't know if Jocelyn would be angry with Richard or if Richard would feel guilty about the ring explosion. I guess there is no finger pointing or blame aimed at anyone, although we know Richard feels terrible. I wondered if that might come between the couple but it doesn't appear to have damaged the relationship.
Stay tuned for more adventures as the gang will have to prevent Jonas from ever meeting Nickola Tesla. The future of electricity could be at stake!
This is a fun series. I love the characters from the past being able to experience the future and this wonderful cast of adventurous characters. Although this is a series and as always it is beneficial to read in order you won't have any trouble picking up the thread and reading this one as a stand alone. This author has a a huge imagination and her stories are always highly entertaining. This series offers adventure and romance within a fantasy/ science fiction type setting and is truly delightful. I can't wait for the next book in the series.
This one gets 4.5 stars.
Alice, Grayson, Edmund, Keira and Jocelyn and Richard are all back and they are having just a wee bit of trouble. A reporter has found out about their time tripping activities, Alice is pregnant and has been advised not to travel, and the ring Richard gave Jocelyn has blown up injuring her father badly. This is just in the first few chapters!!
As a refresher, Richard is the Prince of Wales and the keeper of time. Jocelyn is from the Victorian era, but without a mother's influence, her father doted on her. This gives Jocelyn a certain independence other young ladies of her time do not enjoy. However, the downside to that is she is still unmarried and men tend to shy away from her. But, not Richard. Richard wants to marry Jocelyn, but at the moment there are a plethora of problems.
A coal miners strike is threatening to throw the economy into a tailspin and so with her father in critical
condition, Jocelyn has been asked to try and negotiate with the miners. For the sake of her country she agrees, but what about Richard?
Sophia and Jax are on their own time tripping adventure as they deal with Jonas.
Meanwhile, Jack, the nosy reporter gets more than he bargained for when his interest in the time machine gets him a trip back into the past.
As Jocelyn struggles with her duty and Richard struggles with his, they will have to make a choice. In order to be together one will have to make a choice. Remain in their own time or leave it for a life in the past or a life in the future. Which one would you chose?
There was only one question .. I didn't know if Jocelyn would be angry with Richard or if Richard would feel guilty about the ring explosion. I guess there is no finger pointing or blame aimed at anyone, although we know Richard feels terrible. I wondered if that might come between the couple but it doesn't appear to have damaged the relationship.
Stay tuned for more adventures as the gang will have to prevent Jonas from ever meeting Nickola Tesla. The future of electricity could be at stake!
This is a fun series. I love the characters from the past being able to experience the future and this wonderful cast of adventurous characters. Although this is a series and as always it is beneficial to read in order you won't have any trouble picking up the thread and reading this one as a stand alone. This author has a a huge imagination and her stories are always highly entertaining. This series offers adventure and romance within a fantasy/ science fiction type setting and is truly delightful. I can't wait for the next book in the series.
This one gets 4.5 stars.
January 10, 2015
4.5/5.0
While this third book in the Windsor Diaries can be read as a standalone there is a bit of confusion in the beginning if one has not read the previous books. However, the richly detailed world, the wonderful characters and the twisty plot more than make up for that bit of puzzlement as the reader quickly gets up to speed on the who, what, where and when of the overall story.
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While this third book in the Windsor Diaries can be read as a standalone there is a bit of confusion in the beginning if one has not read the previous books. However, the richly detailed world, the wonderful characters and the twisty plot more than make up for that bit of puzzlement as the reader quickly gets up to speed on the who, what, where and when of the overall story.
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November 16, 2015
A Lady Never Lies by Stephanie Burkhart is the third instalment in her Windsor Diaries series, and the first one I read.
The series is based in the UK (mainly London, as it follows the Windsors, who are part of the British monarchy) and one of its main themes is time travel, therefore the third person narrative follows story-lines which unfold both in 2011 and 1855, involving a myriad of characters from both eras, many of whom have fallen in love with each other.
The bulk of the story is told through dialogue.
Although I was captivated by the steampunk theme and the premise of a time machine and a strong female protagonist, unfortunately I really struggled getting into this book and nearly gave up on several occasions.
From the very first pages we encounter a vast host of characters, which are often referred to using different variants of their names and titles (e.g. Augustus, Gus, Gust, Gusto). Not having read the previous two books, and therefore being unfamiliar with them, I simply could not keep track of who they were and their relationship to each other. This did not improve as I persevered with the story, and at one point I ended up being extremely confused as two sets of characters had incredibly similar names - one being Jonas and Jones, who appeared in the same scene.
I also found the pace far too slow, with too much dialogue and too many trivial details; I feel that all in all the actual events could have been condensed into a short story or novelette. The language was rather arcane at times, but again this may not have been an issue had I read the series in order.
The steampunk element was not as prominent as I would have expected.
Some major concepts around the time machine were introduced as prime motivators but were then not explored further (e.g. its malfunction and its effects on Jack Brandon).
In my view, the Windsors, who come from 2011, seemed to be quite irresponsible in the use of the technology at their disposal, especially given their social position.
Having said all of that, on the positive side, two stand-out figures for me where Jack Brandon, the journalist from 2011, and Jax, the metalsmith from 1855. They were surprising in their actions, and seemed to have more depth to them. Also, the final cliff-hanger could lead to an interesting tale to follow, although I am not sure I am totally convinced by its premise.
Although this book was only OK for me, as we all have our own individual preferences, it might be something that you will enjoy. Personally, I would suggest reading this series in its entirety and in the correct chronological order, and for you to take advantage of the previews on Amazon, and other retailers.
[ARC received via GoddessFish Promotions]
The series is based in the UK (mainly London, as it follows the Windsors, who are part of the British monarchy) and one of its main themes is time travel, therefore the third person narrative follows story-lines which unfold both in 2011 and 1855, involving a myriad of characters from both eras, many of whom have fallen in love with each other.
The bulk of the story is told through dialogue.
Although I was captivated by the steampunk theme and the premise of a time machine and a strong female protagonist, unfortunately I really struggled getting into this book and nearly gave up on several occasions.
From the very first pages we encounter a vast host of characters, which are often referred to using different variants of their names and titles (e.g. Augustus, Gus, Gust, Gusto). Not having read the previous two books, and therefore being unfamiliar with them, I simply could not keep track of who they were and their relationship to each other. This did not improve as I persevered with the story, and at one point I ended up being extremely confused as two sets of characters had incredibly similar names - one being Jonas and Jones, who appeared in the same scene.
I also found the pace far too slow, with too much dialogue and too many trivial details; I feel that all in all the actual events could have been condensed into a short story or novelette. The language was rather arcane at times, but again this may not have been an issue had I read the series in order.
The steampunk element was not as prominent as I would have expected.
Some major concepts around the time machine were introduced as prime motivators but were then not explored further (e.g. its malfunction and its effects on Jack Brandon).
In my view, the Windsors, who come from 2011, seemed to be quite irresponsible in the use of the technology at their disposal, especially given their social position.
Having said all of that, on the positive side, two stand-out figures for me where Jack Brandon, the journalist from 2011, and Jax, the metalsmith from 1855. They were surprising in their actions, and seemed to have more depth to them. Also, the final cliff-hanger could lead to an interesting tale to follow, although I am not sure I am totally convinced by its premise.
Although this book was only OK for me, as we all have our own individual preferences, it might be something that you will enjoy. Personally, I would suggest reading this series in its entirety and in the correct chronological order, and for you to take advantage of the previews on Amazon, and other retailers.
[ARC received via GoddessFish Promotions]
September 21, 2014
Most of the action in A Lady Never Lies takes place during 1855, but some of its important elements come from and happen in 2011, thanks to the invention of time machine. As much as this book is listed under the Steampunk Romance genre, the time travel aspect of it adds another dimension to it.
Different and interesting elements of this novel are: gadgets created in one time and used in another, romance and true love that unites people of different centuries, women with strong characters, and men who act and react nobly.
The main character of the story, Lady Jocelyn Dunkirk-Ridgecroft of Queen Victoria’s time, falls in love with Richard Windsor, the crown prince in 2011, through their meeting during a time travel incident. Richard gives her a special ring which Jocelyn takes off since it becomes too hot to keep on her finger. Suddenly the ring explodes and burns and hurts Jocelyn’s father Lord Ridgecroft very badly.
Richard in the meantime has been late in returning to Jocelyn’s time, which Jocelyn takes as the lack of his affection. Unbeknownst to her, Richard hasn’t been back because the time machine he traveled in had broken down and they had to rebuild it. When Richard returns, Jocelyn acts coldly to him and is not sure she wants to live with him in the future, since his ring was the thing that hurt her father, and she isn’t sure if she wants to leave Lord Ridgecroft in the delicate condition that he’s in. Moreover, both Jocelyn and Richard feel serious responsibility to the needs of the country in their own time periods. But all this is only the setup. The real story happens after this with Queen Victoria giving Jocelyn the job of ending the coal miners� strike and making the mine owners grant some rights to the workers. Will Jocelyn and Richard rekindle their love with everything negative thrown at them is up to the reader to find out.
Truth is this small review cannot do justice to this novel with excellent character depictions, creative twists and turns of the plot, and the numerous challenges and unbelievable incidents written so well that they feel acceptable, such as time travel that messes up the history and family members Jocelyn had never heard of who suddenly emerge out of her father’s backstory.
A Lady Never Lies is speculative fiction at its best with a complex yet believable plot and striking features of steampunk mixed with science fiction.I enjoyed reading it, greatly.
Different and interesting elements of this novel are: gadgets created in one time and used in another, romance and true love that unites people of different centuries, women with strong characters, and men who act and react nobly.
The main character of the story, Lady Jocelyn Dunkirk-Ridgecroft of Queen Victoria’s time, falls in love with Richard Windsor, the crown prince in 2011, through their meeting during a time travel incident. Richard gives her a special ring which Jocelyn takes off since it becomes too hot to keep on her finger. Suddenly the ring explodes and burns and hurts Jocelyn’s father Lord Ridgecroft very badly.
Richard in the meantime has been late in returning to Jocelyn’s time, which Jocelyn takes as the lack of his affection. Unbeknownst to her, Richard hasn’t been back because the time machine he traveled in had broken down and they had to rebuild it. When Richard returns, Jocelyn acts coldly to him and is not sure she wants to live with him in the future, since his ring was the thing that hurt her father, and she isn’t sure if she wants to leave Lord Ridgecroft in the delicate condition that he’s in. Moreover, both Jocelyn and Richard feel serious responsibility to the needs of the country in their own time periods. But all this is only the setup. The real story happens after this with Queen Victoria giving Jocelyn the job of ending the coal miners� strike and making the mine owners grant some rights to the workers. Will Jocelyn and Richard rekindle their love with everything negative thrown at them is up to the reader to find out.
Truth is this small review cannot do justice to this novel with excellent character depictions, creative twists and turns of the plot, and the numerous challenges and unbelievable incidents written so well that they feel acceptable, such as time travel that messes up the history and family members Jocelyn had never heard of who suddenly emerge out of her father’s backstory.
A Lady Never Lies is speculative fiction at its best with a complex yet believable plot and striking features of steampunk mixed with science fiction.I enjoyed reading it, greatly.
June 8, 2014
A Lady Never Lies has a great cast of characters. While Jocelyn Dunkirk is born in Victorian times she is a better fit for modern life. Her Father has allowed her more freedom than most of the women in her time and men find her just a little intimidating. Not the case for Richard Windson. He is a time traveler from the present and he is really taken with her. This is book three in the series and it is Richard and Jocelyn's story. Look for problems, the loss of a important character and the set up for the next story. This is book three in the series. I have not read book one and two and I strongly recommend that you read them first. I was a little lost throughout the entire book. There are hints about backstory but I never really got a good handle on all of the important characters or the change in history that made Richard Windsor the heir to the British Throne. I will be going back to see what I missed in the first two book as I really want to read book four.
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December 13, 20144.5 stars
While this third book in the Windsor Diaries can be read as a standalone there is a bit of confusion in the beginning if one has not read the previous books.
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While this third book in the Windsor Diaries can be read as a standalone there is a bit of confusion in the beginning if one has not read the previous books.
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September 13, 2016
I would like to thank the author for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.
A Lady Never Lies is the third story in The Windsor Diaries series. I have not read the previous stories, this did not seem to be a problem in following this tale. The Windsor family are the adult children of the modern day British Royal family. With the permission of the government they use a time machine to travel back to Victorian England. This story centers on a young woman from the Victorian time period named Jocelyn Dunkirk. She is a noble lady of unconventional character who is more interested in tinkering and inventing with her father and trying to help clean the air of coal dust and smoke, than with sticking with expected protocol and gender roles. Richard Windsor is the modern day Prince of Wales and next in line to the throne. During his travels through time, he fell hard for Jocelyn but duty required he leave her, and now he is returning to her time to capture her heart.
The story opens on the night of the wedding of Edmund Windsor, Richards brother, and his new bride Keira, a woman from the Victorian time. Like Richard, Edmund fell for a woman out of his time. He chose to stay with her in her time and marry her. While at the wedding, the ring Richard left Jocelyn with to prove his affection, began acting strange and heating up. When she removed it from her fingers, her father noticed it sparking. As he leaned over the ring to inspect it, ash from his cigar fell on the ring and it causes a massive explosion. The ballroom is rocked and Jocelyn is thrown backwards, injuring her ankle. When she recovers her wits, she finds her father badly injured and burned. Festivities are halted as the Lord Ridgecroft, Jocelyn’s father, is carried from the room. At this moment Richard Windsor returns in time to see the woman he loves, terrified and angry that the ring he gave her caused this event, rushing out after her father.
The Lord Ridgecroft’s injuries are severe, but there is no time to dwell. The coal miners of England are on strike and the country is quickly starting to suffer. Parliament assigns Jocelyn to help convince the miners and the bosses to settle and she must be off to handle this business in her father’s place. What she did not expect to learn is that an unknown male cousin will be set to inherit her father’s title and lands if he were to succumb to his injuries. Due to a condition in her grandfather’s will, only males may inherit. So now Jocelyn must meet this cousin and take his measure while he accompanies her on the mission to settle the coal miners strike. During all of this stress, Jocelyn must decide where her heart lies. Can she be with Richard? He cannot stay in her time, but she cannot leave her father behind.
This book was described as steampunk, though I don’t find it to be so. Yes Jocelyn tinkers with a couple of items, which don’t get much description, and there seem to be steam engines, it is more like a time travel story with a small nod to steampunk. I was hoping for more on that front.
The bones of the story were good. Though I felt it lacked the support to be great. It was a quick read with little atmosphere or description. The love scenes were short and lacked description or heat. The personalities of the characters were not developed, nor were the relationships. To me it felt very rushed and I could have used much more detail to get me invested. I was never able to latch onto a character’s motivation for why they behaved the way they did and in the case of the main character, was conflicted in her behavior. She repeatedly said nothing mattered but being with her father, but didn’t argue or second guess the trip to deal with the strike. I suppose duty to country is important, but without enough insight to understand the characters, it made little sense.
I loved the idea of the story, but I just wanted more from it. It does end with a tie-in to bring the reader back for the next story and I may start from the first and read the series to see if the characters get more fleshed out with time.
A Lady Never Lies is the third story in The Windsor Diaries series. I have not read the previous stories, this did not seem to be a problem in following this tale. The Windsor family are the adult children of the modern day British Royal family. With the permission of the government they use a time machine to travel back to Victorian England. This story centers on a young woman from the Victorian time period named Jocelyn Dunkirk. She is a noble lady of unconventional character who is more interested in tinkering and inventing with her father and trying to help clean the air of coal dust and smoke, than with sticking with expected protocol and gender roles. Richard Windsor is the modern day Prince of Wales and next in line to the throne. During his travels through time, he fell hard for Jocelyn but duty required he leave her, and now he is returning to her time to capture her heart.
The story opens on the night of the wedding of Edmund Windsor, Richards brother, and his new bride Keira, a woman from the Victorian time. Like Richard, Edmund fell for a woman out of his time. He chose to stay with her in her time and marry her. While at the wedding, the ring Richard left Jocelyn with to prove his affection, began acting strange and heating up. When she removed it from her fingers, her father noticed it sparking. As he leaned over the ring to inspect it, ash from his cigar fell on the ring and it causes a massive explosion. The ballroom is rocked and Jocelyn is thrown backwards, injuring her ankle. When she recovers her wits, she finds her father badly injured and burned. Festivities are halted as the Lord Ridgecroft, Jocelyn’s father, is carried from the room. At this moment Richard Windsor returns in time to see the woman he loves, terrified and angry that the ring he gave her caused this event, rushing out after her father.
The Lord Ridgecroft’s injuries are severe, but there is no time to dwell. The coal miners of England are on strike and the country is quickly starting to suffer. Parliament assigns Jocelyn to help convince the miners and the bosses to settle and she must be off to handle this business in her father’s place. What she did not expect to learn is that an unknown male cousin will be set to inherit her father’s title and lands if he were to succumb to his injuries. Due to a condition in her grandfather’s will, only males may inherit. So now Jocelyn must meet this cousin and take his measure while he accompanies her on the mission to settle the coal miners strike. During all of this stress, Jocelyn must decide where her heart lies. Can she be with Richard? He cannot stay in her time, but she cannot leave her father behind.
This book was described as steampunk, though I don’t find it to be so. Yes Jocelyn tinkers with a couple of items, which don’t get much description, and there seem to be steam engines, it is more like a time travel story with a small nod to steampunk. I was hoping for more on that front.
The bones of the story were good. Though I felt it lacked the support to be great. It was a quick read with little atmosphere or description. The love scenes were short and lacked description or heat. The personalities of the characters were not developed, nor were the relationships. To me it felt very rushed and I could have used much more detail to get me invested. I was never able to latch onto a character’s motivation for why they behaved the way they did and in the case of the main character, was conflicted in her behavior. She repeatedly said nothing mattered but being with her father, but didn’t argue or second guess the trip to deal with the strike. I suppose duty to country is important, but without enough insight to understand the characters, it made little sense.
I loved the idea of the story, but I just wanted more from it. It does end with a tie-in to bring the reader back for the next story and I may start from the first and read the series to see if the characters get more fleshed out with time.
November 3, 2015
“A Lady Never Lies� by Stephanie Burkhart is part of the ‘Windsor Diaries� series that feature intrepid time-travelers from the royal family and those who become enmeshed in their adventures. A tragic accident puts Jocelyn Dunkirk and her future in jeopardy, and Richard Windsor’s return to the past is complicated by his obligations to both the woman who has captured his heart, and the kingdom that he is to rule someday. The future of energy production is still altered and there are hints that more forces are at work than the Windsors had planned for, including a nosy newspaper reporter named Jack Brandon and the professor’s son, Jonas Byron. One way or another, the Windsors� attempt to change the society back to the way it was is well under way…or is it?
This is another imaginative steampunk tale that continues to speculate on the effects of time-travel and the way society would change if it was dependent on a different form of energy. The intriguing inventions that are described make one wish that they still existed and the flowering relationships between the Windsors and those they encounter continue to mature. It gets a little confusing keeping track of who is from which era and I think a legend would be useful, especially since some characters are referred to by one name and then another, plus the necessity of setting up the leading couples of subsequent series gets a little awkward as more characters are added to the time-traveling jaunts.
I love that the women have such pivotal roles and are not consigned to secondary positions, despite the strictures imposed by society’s mores. It would probably be difficult to read this story as a stand-alone, because there are so many threads connecting to the other tales, but it is great to get updates on the progress of the other couples. The author does a nice job of evoking the atmosphere of historical England as it works through the growing pains of industrialization, and she provides thought-provoking scenarios of ‘what-ifs�. I think that the landscape is getting a bit crowded with the displaced time travelers and I am curious how things are going to be ultimately resolved but, given the epilogue to this story, I doubt that is going to happen in the near future…or is that the distant past?
A copy of this story was provided to me for review
This is another imaginative steampunk tale that continues to speculate on the effects of time-travel and the way society would change if it was dependent on a different form of energy. The intriguing inventions that are described make one wish that they still existed and the flowering relationships between the Windsors and those they encounter continue to mature. It gets a little confusing keeping track of who is from which era and I think a legend would be useful, especially since some characters are referred to by one name and then another, plus the necessity of setting up the leading couples of subsequent series gets a little awkward as more characters are added to the time-traveling jaunts.
I love that the women have such pivotal roles and are not consigned to secondary positions, despite the strictures imposed by society’s mores. It would probably be difficult to read this story as a stand-alone, because there are so many threads connecting to the other tales, but it is great to get updates on the progress of the other couples. The author does a nice job of evoking the atmosphere of historical England as it works through the growing pains of industrialization, and she provides thought-provoking scenarios of ‘what-ifs�. I think that the landscape is getting a bit crowded with the displaced time travelers and I am curious how things are going to be ultimately resolved but, given the epilogue to this story, I doubt that is going to happen in the near future…or is that the distant past?
A copy of this story was provided to me for review
October 22, 2015
This is a fabulous steampunk series. A Lady Never Lies is book 3 in the Windsor Diaries series. I don't often stray much from contemporary novels, but when it comes to Stephanie Burkhart's series, I am always on board. If you've never tried this genre, her books are a wonderful place to start.
I recommend reading Victorian Scoundrel and A Gentleman and A Rogue before tackling this one, even though this can be read as a stand alone novel, especially if you are a fan of continuity. If that kind of thing doesn't bother you, by all means go ahead and read this one, you'll enjoy it either way.
In this book the usual cast of characters are present from the other books, but the main focus is on Jocelyn Dunkirk (from the past) and Richard, the Prince Of Wales (from the present). An accident at the beginning of the book shapes the actions here, and results in a terrible injury for a focal character.
Jocelyn is a woman ahead of her time. She's definitely out of place in Victorian times, and it is her close relationship with her father that keeps her from jumping through time to be with Richard Windsor, the Prince of Wales.
It is a ring that Richard gave her that caused the accident at the beginning of the book that sets the ball rolling.
More time travel causes more problems in the future, especially when one of the time travelers tries to change history which will leave readers anxious for the next book to see what is going to happen next.
These books are short but the pacing is fast and never slows down. Once you are involved in the story it is hard to put it down.
I recommend reading Victorian Scoundrel and A Gentleman and A Rogue before tackling this one, even though this can be read as a stand alone novel, especially if you are a fan of continuity. If that kind of thing doesn't bother you, by all means go ahead and read this one, you'll enjoy it either way.
In this book the usual cast of characters are present from the other books, but the main focus is on Jocelyn Dunkirk (from the past) and Richard, the Prince Of Wales (from the present). An accident at the beginning of the book shapes the actions here, and results in a terrible injury for a focal character.
Jocelyn is a woman ahead of her time. She's definitely out of place in Victorian times, and it is her close relationship with her father that keeps her from jumping through time to be with Richard Windsor, the Prince of Wales.
It is a ring that Richard gave her that caused the accident at the beginning of the book that sets the ball rolling.
More time travel causes more problems in the future, especially when one of the time travelers tries to change history which will leave readers anxious for the next book to see what is going to happen next.
These books are short but the pacing is fast and never slows down. Once you are involved in the story it is hard to put it down.
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