The Lady’s Masquerade (A Regency Romance Book)
Publisher Description
Good girls don't go snooping where they don't belong.
But Lady Delia Scarborough never claimed to be a good girl.
Lady Delia Scarborough wants her sister back from the grave.
Since that can't happen, she'll settle for the next best thing…
Making sure her sister's murderer does not go free.
Lady Delia's happy to play the part of maid as long as it gets her inside the home of Kieran Dearborne, Duke of Cowanfield.
He may be able to fool his young daughter into thinking he's innocent, but he can't fool Delia.
She knows a murderer when she sees one.
But the attraction that blossoms between them throws her plans into chaos.
The more Delia gets to know the Duke, the more she thinks his innocence is no act.
But every clue she uncovers points to him, and he acts strangely whenever she's around.
Delia will do anything to avenge her sister's death, but that means putting her own life in peril.
Can the duke's love pull Delia back from the brink of danger?
Or was her fate sealed the moment she stepped into the Duke's home?
Customer Reviews
The Ladys Masquerade
A wonderful story
Not what it could have been
I felt like it needed to be longer more added to it. Characters needed to be more fleshed out more developed, making the reader care about what is happening.
The Bad guy/villain needed to be introduced in some way WAY before the reveal at the end, because I found what did happen disappointing because up until that point the only other man who had been introduced was the friend of the duke from the beginning. More foreshadowing was needed because as previously stated the villain/bad guy came out of no-where with a flimsy motive for wanting her dead. And besides he could have just killed her in the bed and that would have solved all his problems. A proper motive also needed to be established along with at least 2 other possible theories and more evidence brought to light, because the Blurb made it sound like there were several more things than were actually discovered.
The book ‘the Haunting of a Duke’ by Chasity Bowlin (which is no longer available on iBook I don’t think) does this sort of plot really well (despite the fact that that story features ghosts, Spirits & murder). It builds slowly and even features small snippets from the villain’s and other character’s POVs. Evidence is scattered throughout alongside character development and the growing relationship between the Main Female and Main Male leads feels natural and not overly rushed.
Overall it this story had good bones and an interesting idea, but the execution wasn’t what it could have been.