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Book Review
Oct. 18th, 2023 08:51 pmA Rogue by Night
by Kelly Bowen
This historical romance is set in Dover just after the Napoleonic Wars. Harland Hayward, Baron Strathmore, is both a doctor and a smuggler. Katherine Wright is part of a smuggling family and also a doctor (although, given the era, by a less formal and more circuitous route). She is working to get herself and her family out of the smuggling business. In order to get the funds for this, she agrees to partner with Harland for one last daring job. Over the course of this endeavor, the respect and attraction they feel for each other becomes love.
I liked this novel a lot. Both Harland and Katherine are strong, smart, very competent people who also have a lot of trauma from the war to contend with. I really liked how they worked through the scars of their pasts together. I also liked how realistic they were about their relationship. Plus, the smuggling plot made everything that much more exciting and suspenseful.
by Kelly Bowen
This historical romance is set in Dover just after the Napoleonic Wars. Harland Hayward, Baron Strathmore, is both a doctor and a smuggler. Katherine Wright is part of a smuggling family and also a doctor (although, given the era, by a less formal and more circuitous route). She is working to get herself and her family out of the smuggling business. In order to get the funds for this, she agrees to partner with Harland for one last daring job. Over the course of this endeavor, the respect and attraction they feel for each other becomes love.
I liked this novel a lot. Both Harland and Katherine are strong, smart, very competent people who also have a lot of trauma from the war to contend with. I really liked how they worked through the scars of their pasts together. I also liked how realistic they were about their relationship. Plus, the smuggling plot made everything that much more exciting and suspenseful.
