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A Feather To Fly With (Regency Charades Book 1) Kindle Edition
... it's a scam!
Proper young ladies make their fortune by marrying it. Not Cleo - she's going to make her fortune by stealing it!
She'll take part in the London social whirl, dances and visits to the opera and delicate flirtations, and pose as a young lady on the Marriage Mart. But that's all an act. Her real plan is much more complex. And not exactly legal.
He's not just a Duke - he's a scientist!
Arthur knows it's time to settle down. So he scientifically sets about finding a suitable wife and duchess. Some sweet biddable young thing to bear his children and manage his estate, and leave him alone with his telescope.
That's what he's looking for. Instead he finds Cleo.
If you like your romance sweet, lighthearted and funny, with unconventional characters you'll long remember, you'll love A Feather To Fly With.
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- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 23, 2014
- File size1316 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B00IMMIUVY
- Publisher : Joyce Harmon (February 23, 2014)
- Publication date : February 23, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 1316 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 211 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #304,458 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,806 in Historical Regency Fiction
- #6,765 in Regency Historical Romance
- #8,075 in Regency Romances
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About the author

Joyce Harmon has been from one side of the galaxy to the other (slight exaggeration) and seen a lot of strange stuff (very true). Since retiring from the Navy, she has worked as a winery tour guide, a journalist for a local newspaper, selling collectibles on eBay, and making candles - and always, always, a writer. She shares her rural Virginia home with two haughty and indolent cats and one clever, busy dog, and is haunted by a noisy crowd of characters, all clamoring to be written down and set loose into the world. She accommodates them as quickly as she can. She is the author of the Passatonnack Winery mysteries, and the Regency Charades series of Regency romances. Mary Bennet and the Bingley Codex is the first novel of the Regency Mage series, historic fantasy starring Mary Bennet, the studious and overlooked middle daughter of Pride and Prejudice. Other books in the series include Mary Bennet and the Wickham Artifact, out now, and soon to be released: Mary Bennet and the Beast of Rosings Park,and Mary Bennet and the Shades of Pemberley.
Joyce blogs occasionally at http://joyceharmon.wordpress.com/ , mostly about her dog.
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Cleopatra Cooper is the heroine. She is my favorite type of woman strong, capable, not afraid to bend the law if her family is hungry or lacking shelter, doesn't cry easily nor fall apart at the least little blip in life. She is perhaps written a tad to naive about slights to her family name as she is very aware of the disgrace her Mother gave her family by running off with the Art teacher. Though she has a plan on how to acquire money, for the family, so they can finally put all the constant moving from place to place behind them the writer made her just not believable in her ability not to be a tad bitter about the loss of her Fathers money & all his life's work by a unscrupulous English man. No one is that single minded in pursuit of bettering themselves. Overall I did find her mostly believable.
The secondary characters tale of how they came to be with the family was a nice touch. My only regret was not being able to quite figure out who Peter Barton is amongst the family. He isn't her brother like Han is yet lives with them.
I very much enjoyed the character/hero Arthur who came to life quite realistically off the page. I also enjoyed the lively conversation of he & Cleo as well as the mistaken identity of Arthur when they first meet & then are officially introduced by his friend Justin.
Not having the chance of becoming friends among girls of their own age I thought the writer was just padding the plot to have Felicity, a true blonde beauty out for her first season, befriending Cleo. Nor did I believe her Mother would allow Felicity to be friends with Cleo as different as she was. I'm afraid the reality is it was every young girl for herself, mummy behind her all the way pushing & pushing to make that "grand" match. I'm thankful I didn't live in those days or in England where Love was a 4 letter word over the preferred word CASH. It was a nice touch & fit into the plot exceptionally well. But I think I am quibbling about this small detail.
I really find I enjoy the Victorian novel where romance is almost an after thought & the novel has such a strong plot. I found I couldn't put it down wondering how Cleo was going to find a way to achieve her goals & not marry. I enjoyed very much the way the author didn't over load the plot with endless description of houses, rooms, dresses, food, drink, these bog a novel down. Instead the author chose to have the characters move the plot as they rightfully should. I found it interesting that the men who danced with a woman the night before were to send flowers to the girls they danced with. It was in Victorian times that the meaning of flowers was very much in vogue when a bouquet was sent. But the author just decided not to make use of this in the novel which was OK it gave the information I the reader needed to know & showed how Arthur was unskilled at the ins & outs of polite society during the Season.
If like me you prefer a strong plot, no sex, interesting characters & a great ending, best I've read in awhile, then I heartily recommend this book! At the very end of the Authors bio in the back it mentions she is working on a sequel I wish she had mentioned a title but I'll certainly be watching for it to come out.
This took some chapters in for me to really appreciate it. At first, the hero, Arthur Ramsay, Duke of Winton, seemed too beta, too innocent, too much of a scientific bent and too ignorant of the ways of society in the Upper Ten Thousand that I was afraid I wouldn't enjoy the story. But I persevered and was rewarded with a very good read that only became even better as the story progressed.
There's a mystery in this, two sweet romances, many endearing characters, excellent dialogue, understated humor and wit. It's well worth the read and I'm grateful to the fellow romance reader who recommended it to me. (Thanks, Rappleyea!)
Maybe it's a 4.5 star work but I couldn't bring myself to give it a full 5 stars. I guess my hesitation to do so is based on the slow start I had on the road to enjoying it. BTW, don't be expecting a completely realistic look at 19th century people of the peerage. This duke and his mother, for example, are way too nice to have ever existed in the rarefied ranks of dukes and duchesses, but, hey, it's just a story and a fun one at that.
Like the song says, “But if you try sometimes you just might find, you get what you need.” In this beguiling romp, everyone has needs. Arthur needs a bride fit to be a duchess and to correct the Royal Society’s expert on planetary orbits. Cleo Cooper needs courage to follow her plan and settle her family’s finances. Felicity Harwell needs a brilliant match and a good friend, if only it could be the same person. Justin needs to be taken a bit more seriously than he’d like to admit and a shepherd’s staff. Observing how these needs combine to reach the felicitous happy ending is quite the adventure.
This truly is regency romance in the classic tradition. There are plots, schemes, moments perilous to reputations and of course, tangles of the heart that must be sorted out. It isn’t a breathless ride, but you will find yourself catching and holding your breath, releasing it with a laugh that might give away the fact you’re not working.
The characters carry this tale so you forget they are not really Originals, except for their time and place and how adroitly they maneuver beyond the clichés. Their manner and interaction are totally believable and obligingly kind without losing their spirit and becoming wax caricatures. And, joy of joys, there is only one jealous cat, and everyone totally ignores her - ha - so there! The secondary characters never deteriorate to two dimensions and sensible solutions to fumbles and missteps renew your faith in humanity.
Ms. Harmon’s writing is crisp and her atmosphere created with a subtle hand. She places you in the moment without using lengthy personal monologues or contrived conflict. I never felt she was juggling flaming pineapples to keep me from looking too closely at the plot or characters. Instead, I felt invited to take my leisure, to appreciate the fact “society is composed of some very silly people.” This is a rare gift in these days of modern heroines in regency dresses coupled with sensitive new-age rakes. She takes four people with their assorted needs, dependants, relations and resources, then proves the adventure of reaching the happily ever after IS the soul of romantic literature. That you can have that adventure walking briskly or strolling socially is something she never loses sight of so you don’t either.
Definitely a keeper, I can’t wait to find more books from Ms. Harmon, I hope she plots and plans as quickly as Chloe does!


























