Counterfeit Lady [Mass Market Paperback]

Dawn Mactavish (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2009

When the daughter of an austere Methodist minister is talked into taking her friend’s place at a fashionable Regency masquerade, friendship—and desire—demand she continue the deception.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 291 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books; Original edition (November 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843963212
• ISBN-13: 978-0843963212
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,612,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars delightful Regency romantic romp, November 1, 2009

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This review is from: Counterfeit Lady (Mass Market Paperback)

In 1815 Lady Clara orders her reluctant paid companion Alice to pretend to be her at a masquerade ball. Clara wants confirmation that the man she is to meet Nigel Farnham is as ugly as rumors state; but cannot ignore the toady since her aunt Lady Pembroke insists she must pay attention to him.

Nigel dances with the lady he assumes is Clara and finds himself spellbound. However, before everyone unmasks, his dance partner flees. When Clara vanishes, Alice is forced to keep up her masquerade to avoid a scandal. Nigel pursues Alice as Clara while another aristocrat also goes after her. However when Clara returns as if nothing has happened she decides she wants Nigel and if destroying Alice's reputation will achieve her objective so be it as a companion is expendable.

Counterfeit Lady is a delightful Regency romantic romp starring a wonderful lead couple and several purposely stereotypical self centered support characters like Clara and Alice's cold Minister dad. The story line is fast-paced from the opening dialogue with a coaxing Clara unaware of her companion's inner debate in which Alice the imp argues with Alice the minister's daughter whether she should or she should not masquerade. Dawn MacTavish provides an amusing historical as readers will relish the imp winning the argument.

Harriet Klausner

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars PG-13 Historical Romance, November 30, 2009

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This review is from: Counterfeit Lady (Mass Market Paperback)

I liked this book until 1/2 way through and then I found myself skimming the pages. The concept was interesting Lady Clara is off to meet her lovers and talks her paid companion Alice to pretend to be her at a masquerade ball and meets an handsome Earl When Lady Clara does not return from that night Alice pretend to be Lady Clara in order to find her. When it all fall apart Alice's her evil father locks her away and the Earl sets off to find her...

At the end of the book it was noted she writes under other name as well Dawn Thompson which sound little more my style but while I was searching...I found that author had passes away in 2008. Here is a list of her book that I am off to find .... The Ravencliff Bride, The Waterlord, Lord of the Deep, The Marsh Hawk (Leisure Historical Romance) and Prisoner of the Flames (Leisure Historical Romance).

2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written., September 13, 2011

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This review is from: Counterfeit Lady (Kindle Edition)

I liked the idea of the book but the execution and editing left something to be desired. It felt like the author used her Thesaurus a little too much and got stuck using the same words over and over and over. Gel, fie, bounderer are just some of the words that stood out.

This is the first book I've read of this author's work and I probably won't read another one.