Midsummer Eve at Rookery End [Kindle Edition]

Elizabeth Hanbury (Author)

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One Midsummer Eve, three Regency love stories......

Midsummer Eve is the traditional time for love divination, when gentlemen and ladies can hope to meet their true love. Lord and Lady Allingham hold a lavish ball every year at their country estate, Rookery End, for the Regency ton to celebrate this custom. Amid this romantic setting, six people are about to fall in love...

Siren's Daughter:

Following her disagreeable aunt's demise, Deborah King attends the midsummer ball where she encounters Sir Benedict Catesby. Can Deborah and Sir Benedict overcome past bitterness and let love triumph second time around?

Blue Figured Silk:

The handsome Marquess of Shaftesbury is renowned as a rake and a gambler. When the Marquess arranges an assignation with an attractive widow in the garden, his encounter does not turn out as he expected...

A Scandal at Midnight:

Young governess Verity Brook accompanies Miss Amelia Gardiner to the ball and receives a shocking letter. Verity must act to avoid a scandal, but the only person she can turn to is the arrogant Sir Tristan Millforte - the nonpareil Amelia is to marry.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 201 KB
• Publisher: E-scape Press Limited; 2 edition (September 1, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003AZY5C6
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #171,120 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Elizabeth Hanbury writes Regency/historical romance with swoonworthy heroes, sparkling heroines and a dash of wit and humour.

Visit her web-site at www.elizabethhanbury.com for more information.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 3 Enchating Tales, November 12, 2009

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Alexandra Cenni "Poisoned Rationality" (hamilton, nj USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midsummer Eve at Rookery End (Print on Demand (Paperback))

I won this as part of a RWA prize pack from a recent contest on Anna DeStefano's blog and was a little puzzled at first. This is a slim volume, just at 95 or so pages long and from a publisher and author I had never heard of before. Still, regency short stories peak my interest always!

The stories are, to put it simply, magical. Arguably the easiest to believe is 'Siren's Daughter', since its about two once upon a time lovers and a big big misunderstanding, but I found I liked 'Blue Figured Silk' more because I could feel Shaftesbury's shock and jolt of awareness from Hanbury's writing. And it also has one of the cutest, if silliest, jokes at the very end.

'A Scandal at Midnight' was cute, and I think if it had been longer would have been extremely pleasing. Its the shortest story of the three however and has the least depth. The running theme of a 'misunderstanding' drawing the lovers together is stretched to its limits this time I think.

This does however make me sad that a fellow reviewer comrade of mine read her full length novel, Ice Angel from Robert Hale for Romance Readers at Heart. These samplings of her writing are very good and have a definite charm to them that makes me eager to try longer works of hers.