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Secrets of the Night Paperback

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Book 4 of 13: Mallorens & Friends

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When a wealthy heir to the large estate of Wenscote decides to donate his land to a strict puritan sect, the locals immediately hatch a plan to stop him. Since there is no rival heir, they must make one. It's up to the young wife of the present estate owner to get pregnant and pass the child off as her husband's. Her planned lover-to-be, however, incites passions she never expected.

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Book 4 of 13

Mallorens & Friends
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English
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16.51 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm
ISBN-10

156895770X
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978-1568957708
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Jo Beverley is widely regarded as one of the most talented romance writers today. She is a four-time winner of Romance Writers of America's cherished RITA Award and one of only a handful of members in the RITA Hall of Fame. She has also recieved the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Born in England, she now lives with her husband and two sons in Victoria, British Columbia, just a ferry ride away from Seattle, WA. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The fourth installment of Beverley's delightfully spicy Georgian era Malloren series is skillfully plotted and fast paced. Scarred in a carriage accident as a teenager, reclusive Rosamunde Overton, a talented horse breeder, has a passion for her husband's holdings. When they are threatened, she vows to go to any length to save them, even to the extent of rescuing a gorgeous stranger from the side of the road and demanding sex as a reward so that she'll conceive and prevent her husband's estate from going to his heir, a member of a fanatical religious cult. The stranger turns out to be Lord Brand Malloren, who also has a passion for animal husbandry and farm management, and is utterly fascinated by the mysterious masked, married woman who rescues and seduces him. Only Beverley could turn such an improbable plot and what appears to be a hopelessly ill-fated meeting into a captivating feel-good romance. Readers need not have read others in the series to fully enjoy this one. Diana Tixier Herald --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 156895770X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1568957708
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 658 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm

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Jo Beverley is one of today's top authors of historical romance, and one of only twelve members of the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. She sets her bestselling novels in her native England, and has a degree in English history.

Her 40 novels have won just about all the awards in romance , including 5 RITA awards, the top award in romance, and 2 career achievement awards from Romantic Times. Reviews regularly include words like masterful, thrilling, and even sublime.

She writes historical romance novels and novellas set in her native England in the middle ages, the Georgian period, and the Regency, often with mystery and adventure elements, and sometimes with a little magic. Readers have been known to argue about which of her main series is best --the Malloren series, set in the 1760s, or the Company of Rogues books, set in the Regency. The Company of Rogues series begins with An Arranged Marriage. The Malloren series begins with My Lady Notorious. Most of her novels can be enjoyed as stand-alones.

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Marilyn Rondeau

Could Not Put it DowN!

Reviewed in Canada on February 27, 2002

I mean really, who else could come up with this story? A young gently bred Lady married to an older man who seemed on his last legs and in order to save the manor and the people must have an heir which the older gent cannot seem to provide.
Rosamund Overton and her cousin, Lady Diana, come up with a plan to find a likely candidate at a masquerade ball but Rosamunde chickens out and flees the event.
On her way home she comes across a man along the side of the road. Playing the good samaritan she picks him up and brings him to her cousins dower house and after cleaning him up a bit, recognizes a likely candidate who could possibly 'do the deed'.
It sounds a little cold blooded, but then this is a MALLOREN and things are just bound to HEAT up!
The story is wonderful, the characters are so well fleshed out, and what more could you expect? This is another of Jo Beverley at her best - but when is she not? Definitely a keeper.

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Barks Books

A very romantic romance about two good people

Reviewed in Canada on May 19, 2000

I don't like reading about adultery in my romances, nor do I like opening up a book only to find it's smack dab in the middle of a series. This book fits both scenarios but, much to my surprise, I couldn't tear myself away from it.
Rosa is married to Digby, a sickly, older man, who has been unable to impregnate her. When Digby dies their home will pass into the hands of a nephew who belongs to a fanatical religious cult. In order to prevent this Digby encourages Rosa to find herself a handsome young man to get her with child.
Sheltered Rosa loves Digby but he's always been more of a protector than a lover. When she was seventeen she was gravely injured and her face was scarred. Digby saved her life by proposing marriage. Because of her scars she has been living life as a hermit and, although she is frightened by Digby's request, it reawakens her adventurous nature and she agrees to his plan.
So Rosa dons a mask and heads to a masquerade ball to find an "easy" man. But the men she meets repulse her and she decides to head back to the safety of her home. This is where she finds the hero who is laying unconscious in the middle of the street. She brings him to a friends' home and nurses him throughout the night. When he awakens he has no memory but is so grateful to the still masked Rosa that he offers her payment. She's very attracted to him and impulsively decides to ask him to make love to her and he agrees. During their time together something unexpected happens -- they fall in love.
What follows is a very sensuous love story written with wry humor about two wonderful characters caught in an impossible situation. I ached for them and was not turned off at all by the adultery plot because of the way it was presented and because all of the characters involved were warm, loving and kind people. I couldn't tear myself away from this love story until the last quarter when the couple faced a necessary separation and an intrigue subplot took over center stage. I'm very glad I read this story and I can honestly say that it stands alone very nicely if you haven't read the previous "Malloren" books.

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Dr W. Richards

Enjoyable love triangle with a difference!

Reviewed in Canada on December 9, 2000

This is the first Jo Beverley book I have read, and it's also more than half-way through a series. It's a credit to Beverley as a writer, though, that I didn't realise it was towards the end of the Malloren series until I read her author's notes at the end.
Rosamunde Overton is married to a man much older than she is, and who is not expected to live long; they have no children, and the heir is a member of a Puritanical sect whom no-one wants to inherit the land. So hints aplenty have been dropped: Rosa should get herself pregnant by whatever means possible, so that the baby can be passed off as her husband's. By pure chance, Lord Brand Malloren has been drugged and dumped in the middle of a bog; Rosa finds him, rescues him and, as payment, demands his sexual services. And what begins as pure sex turns into something more.
But Brand has no idea who his temporary mistress is, and Rosa is determined that they will never meet again. But she reckons without Malloren determination, and the resourcefulness of Brand's elder brother, Bey.
This is certainly an enjoyable book, though I wouldn't call it memorable; it has none of the haunting qualities of a Mary Jo Putney, or of Balogh at her best. I also felt that some descriptive passages were rushed: I had to read some of the action sequences several times to understand what had happened. Beverley also skips over elements of the story very quickly, losing the sense of suspense and failing to take advantage of opportunities for angst or romantic scenes. And I still don't know, for example, just how Brand managed to be at Wenscote in time to save Rosa from attack, since the last time we saw Brand he was headed somewhere else entirely. His presence was neither explained at the time nor in retrospect.
Having said that, I do intend to read the other Malloren books, and in particular - since I guessed from this book who Bey, Lord Rothgar's, own particular Nemesis would be - Bey's own story.

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jean ward

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2016

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Loved this book.

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2014

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All I can say about author Jo Beverley's novel Secrets of The Night, is after finishing half the book I downloaded on my Kindle 10 more of her books. Yes I thought this book was that good. I loved the Hero, Brand and the Heroine, Rosie. I could go on and on about how wonderful and believable the characters were, or how incredible good the story was but just go out and get the book you will see for yourself.

The premise of the book is about how Rosie, Rosamunde Overton who being married at sixteen to an elderly man is still childless after seven years of marriage. When her elderly husband's inability to sire an heir threatens everyone she cares for, young Rosie is forced is forced into a daring deceit at a scandalous masquerade. But then her nerve fails and she flees, ready to give up all hope ... until she rescues an injured nobleman who just might be the answer to her prayers Although Lord Brand Malloren lives far above the station of the mysterious lady who has taken him captive and captured his heart, he's only too willing to follow her lead. Rosie too has fallen in love, but her reckless plan depends on secrecy. For to reveal herself could cost her everything.

This was the first novel of Ms. Beverley I have read and Secrets of the Night is part of a series of books called Malloren World. Each book in the series can be read separately, this was book four in the series and as I stated was my first novel by this author. I strongly recommend this book for an entertaining romance read. On a passion scale I would put this at a 6.

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Interesting time period and engaging characters

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020

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This is my second favorite in the Malloren family series. The characters are warm and caring. Brand, the third brother, is not an uber alpha male like Rothgar, but a steady man interested in land management. He finds a perfect mate even though she is married to an older man on the brink of death. There path to happiness is convoluted but ends happily.

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britgirl

An improvement to a couple of her other books...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2015

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Sir Digby Overton is having trouble impregnating his young 23 year old wife, Rosamunde. In order to prevent the title and home in Wenscote falling to a nephew, the Puritan Edward Overton, he instructs her to get pregnant by bedding some young buck. Rosamunde is hesitant, but agrees. Instead of finding someone at a masquerade, she happens upon a young man, lying unconscious in the road. She brings him back to nurse him to health, much to the dismay of her staff, who believes the young man must be notorious and cannot be trusted. Rosamunde ignores her staff, and sets him up in her own bedroom to take care of him. However, she doesn't want him to know who she is, and wears a mask in his presence.

Lord Brand Malloren has little to no memory as to where he is, nor how he came to be lying in the road. He realises the people taking care of him aren't being completely honest and are using false names, but he is grateful for their help. When the masked Rosamund aka Mrs Gillsett asks him to repay her kindness with a 'tupping,' Brand agrees. Once turns into a few times and Brand finds himself falling for her. He wants to know more about her and asks that she runs away with him. Rosamunde is tempted, but remembers her obligations to her husband and cannot comply.

Rosamunde's friend, the Duchess of Arradale, discovers her predicament and informs Rosamunde of who Brand really is (the brother of a powerful marquess). It's more reason for Rosamunde to say goodbye and forget about him. Brand is drugged and left in a barn, with a message sent to the Marquess of Rothgar, who just happens to be staying in the inn Rosamunde is staying in. More fake names are used and Rosamunde hopes Rothgar won't persue her. But her nephew knows something isn't right and is determined to find out the truth, keen to ensure the title and estate fall to him sooner rather than later.

Brand comes to and is angered that he'd been drugged. Rothgar is out for blood, but Brand is determined to sort this out himself as he has now fallen head over heels for her.

Overall, the book was much of an improvement compared to another I'd read of Jo's recently. It was a pity it was actually shorter than her other one.

Brand and Rosamunde are a great couple, who you find yourself rooting for from the start.

4/5

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SusanF

Amazing Book & Series!

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2021

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What an amazing series, definitely one of the best I’ve read! Filled with so many wonderful characters, each book (every one so different from the previous) leaves this reader craving more stories of the Malloren world. Loved Brand & Rosamunde’s story; what an emotional journey! ❤️📚❤️

Highly recommend this author’s work to anyone who has not read her books.

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