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Katherine, When She Smiled (Regency Charades Book 3) Kindle Edition
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Lord Charles Ramsey is home from the wars and ready to settle down. He’s looking for a suitable wife – a nice, easy-going lady, a ‘jolly girl’. The last thing he needs is a complicated, clever, critical young lady with secrets.
Katherine and Lord Charles each have their own plans. But novel writing is more difficult than it looks, and finding a suitable wife is less straightforward than Charles imagined. And romance isn’t always where you expect it to be.
(Author’s Note: Katherine, When She Smiled takes place in the same universe as my previous Regency romances. It occurs after the events of A Feather To Fly With and Regency Road Trip, but before The World’s a Stage. This is a stand-alone novel, and can be read and enjoyed without having read the previous works. It is a traditional Regency and contains no sex scenes.)
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 8, 2015
- File size1856 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B016CRSLUU
- Publisher : (October 8, 2015)
- Publication date : October 8, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 1856 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 189 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1719813744
- Best Sellers Rank: #192,481 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4,663 in Regency Historical Romance
- #5,218 in Regency Romances
- #6,269 in Romantic Comedy (Kindle Store)
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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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You are warned that this is a 4- to 5-star book to me, but I doubt it would be across the board to all romance readers. If you've enjoyed, in the past, those Signet and Zebra traditional Regencies put out in the 1980s and 1990s, this is perfect for you. You need to enjoy rather quiet, witty low-key humor and romance. A comedy of manners, so to speak.
This is Harmon's third full-length Regency novel and fits into their timeline as following the first one ( A Feather To Fly With ) and its companion novella ( Regency Road Trip, a novella ), but it occurs chronologically before her second novel ( The World's a Stage ). You don't have to have read any of her previous work to enjoy this new one, but for those who have read FEATHER, you'll enjoy knowing that Lord Charles, the H of this one, is the younger brother of that one's H, Arthur, Duke of Winton.
Charles has been a career soldier. His father had left him an estate outside the lovely little village of Piddledean (!) and the Piddledeanians have been waiting years and years and years for him to come and take up the reins of it. Especially the Piddledeanian young ladies and their parents, who assume Charles must definitely be in need of a wife, preferably one from Piddledean.
Meanwhile, our heroine Katherine, a native of Piddledean, is struggling to keep hearth and home together after discovering that her recently-deceased father had been having to supplement their family income by writing Gothick romances. Of all things! Father had been a renowned scholar, an expert in the classics and Homer. But finances are not looking so good and when she discovers a half-finished manuscript in his desk she makes the decision to finish it.
Katherine, mind you, doesn't confide in the rest of the family. She's the sensible one and doesn't want them upset, so it's a heavy burden on her young shoulders. And there you are. We have Charles, newly arrived in Piddledean; Katherine with her secrets and her amusing struggle to finish up that Gothick sensation novel; Katherine's suitor, the young vicar; the unexpected visit of Charles' sister and brother-in-law along with a female friend of theirs; Hans, the artist brother of Cleo, h of FEATHER, doing his usual artist thing; Katherine's siblings and aunt; as many Piddledeanians as needed to round out the story, one in particular being Katherine's fair-weather friend whose obsession with marrying leaves no room for friendship anymore.
All in all, this is a very entertaining story with great characters and an amusing storyline. It's my favorite so far in the series. I'm hoping Harmon is encouraged to write more and more and more of these little stories.
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Several of the previous books characters are in this one and provide the initial familiarity to start us off.
In the end, I loved this book even more than the previous one.
Thank you Joyce


























