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Katherine, When She Smiled (Regency Charades Book 3) Kindle Edition

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Katherine Rose has a secret. She was shocked to discover that her late father, a famous scholar, was secretly the author of lurid Gothic novels. These novels, wildly popular though critically disparaged, are her family’s main source of income. His last novel is unfinished and soon due at the publisher! In the family’s dire financial straits, Katherine must take up the fallen pen and finish the manuscript of a form of literature she has always disdained, while all around her the neighborhood goes mad over the arrival in their midst of a handsome and single young lord.

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.)
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  • 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
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 1,191

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Joyce Harmon
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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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Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2015
I'm the kind of romance reader who can enjoy hot sex between H and h when it's appropriately placed in the story. But I don't like it when the story itself is just a vehicle to allow the H and h to go at it in the backseat, front seat, hood and everywhere else they can think of. So fuddy-duddy me appreciates a reading break from sex that a book like Harmon's gives me.

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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Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2022
This book is a bit standalone from the first two Regency Charade books(A Feather To Fly With and Regency Road Trip), so it's possible to enjoy it without reading them first, but I highly recommend doing so anyway. It will give you a better understanding of one of the recurring characters, plus they are great books. Where "A Feather To Fly With" has a bit of a madcap plot reminiscent of Georgette Heyer, this book has a gentler, slower pace. It is set in a small village, and the humor derives from the human foibles of the various characters, similar to Jane Austen's books. Katherine, the heroine, is in a bit of a financial pickle, since her father has passed away, but she has a scheme to fix things! The hero is a bit of a hermit, he just wants to be left quietly alone in the country, but fat chance when the young unmarried ladies of the neighborhood see an eligible gentleman in their midst. Katherine, is about the only one who isn't trying to catch him. she's preoccupied with her own problems. The writing flows well. It's nice to see someone still writing traditional closed-door Regencies, a genre I will never get tired of.
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2020
I loved this book. The author created a heroine that is truly likable. Unlike so many heroines in historical novels who prove how independent they are by acting like idiots and in a totally inappropriate manner for anything set in regency England, in this book Katherine demonstrates her competence by what she does for others in an independent and selfless way. The hero is also very likable. not brooding, not overly heroic, just a really likable , handsome guy. In fact, all the characters in this book were likable. And I loved the clever way the author juxtaposed the story with the “gothic novel” Katherine is secretly writing in order to save her families finances. In that novel within this book, the characters are so typical of most romance stories – the heroine is so clueless you want to strangle her, and the other characters are all too typical – hero, villain, etc. Not in “Katherine When She Smiled” wherein all the characters are multi-faceted, and therefore more realistic. Finally, the title of the book is taken from a very sweet episode in this book. I highly recommend this book. One caveat, the author needs to ask for a better editor, there were misspellings that should have been caught by a competent editor – that’s their job.
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2022
As with too many ebooks, no one seems to have bothered to proofread. (As a former editor and a current proofreader, this bugs me.) However, the story was a lot of fun. Harmon includes a lot of humor, her characters are interesting and occasionally unconventional but not outrageously so, and if some of the romances are easily spotted, well, it's fun to see how everything eventually works out.
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2023
Charles the veteran assumes control of his rural estate and becomes involved with his neighbors. Katherine solves her father mysterious income and become part of his secret. Antic by the youngsters Han and Jack make for lots of light moments and a mysterious puzzle to solve. Clean reading fun.
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2022
This one.didn't grab me as much as the other books did. Although I did like the book, it was.just a.little slower than the others. I loved all the characters and it made for an Interesting read. Going to go on to the next in the series.
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2023
A good old fashioned Regency with likable characters, a realistic quaint village, and an excellent storyline. I am enjoying this series very much and highly recommend it!

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Anne Marsh
5.0 out of 5 stars Fun read!
Reviewed in Canada on December 3, 2020
It seemed a little slow to start. Though looking back, the groundwork was necessary. Once it got going I thoroughly enjoyed it. Toward the end I laughed as it all came together.
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
ideaman
5.0 out of 5 stars Really Enjoyed This
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2020
Much like when I stumbled over Dorothy Mack and Edith Layton when I stumbled over Joyce Harmon I fell in love. These are sweet, but avoid saccharine by having unusual characters and quirky plots. I like Katherine very much - she had so much unsought responsibility thrust on her and bore it resolutely. Moreover, she made a good fist of it, and emerges as a strong woman depicted in a time when women had little autonomy (many writers of this genre write 21C women and just shove them in the regency period paying scant attention to the mores of the time; what Harmon does is show strong women within the constraints of the time, and that's a hard gig to pull off). On the back of this I've read A Feather to Fly with (another strong women who gets where she needs to go by bending the rules, but never being seen to do so). I'll be sad when I finish the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
Reviewed in Spain on June 22, 2020
Nice,very witty and clean story.I did really enjoy this story .The personality of all the characters was so well define,even the secondaries,and the story never got boring. It was a pleasure reading every page of this book.
Rekha
5.0 out of 5 stars Cozy , fluffy light clean Sweet regency romance
Reviewed in India on December 8, 2019
This is the first book I have read of the author. I almost didn't pick it up due to its title but I am glad I did read it for i have seen very few books with the actual regency flavour without typos and modern words. This book gives you flavour of Jane Austen style. I found myself imagining in Piddledean Village with all the characters. Though the story is well narrated, I would have loved more interactions between main protagonists, it seemed as rushed romance between them towards the end. No spoilers here. I would definitely recommend reading this book and now I am going to read more of the author's work
Elizabeth
5.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed it
Reviewed in Australia on January 5, 2021
Characters are well written - humorous, quirky, complex people. Joyce Harmon's world is a great place to escape to.
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