A Seaside Summer by Josi S. KilpackMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This collection goes right up there with my other Regency Anthology favorites: A Country Christmas and Spring in Hyde Park.
The New Countess by Kilpack
A marriage of convenience story that starts ten months after the wedding and well into the pregnancy of their first child. Diane has been the perfect countess for her husband, but she is exhausted and looking forward to a nice holiday with the three children, free from schedules and protocol. Unfortunately, a few weeks after her arrival at her seaside retreat, the earl arrives unexpectedly and upsets all her plans. It's back to elaborate dinners, socializing, and little time spent with their children. Can she learn to compromise without losing herself in his demands? I love that as they learn to communicate their needs/desires with each other, they grow closer together and better understand one another. It was a beautiful, more mature love story.
Mishaps and Memories by Keyes
A vicar's daughter is granted a week to socialize among the ton and perhaps attract the interest of a peer, but her hopes are dashed by a rude gentleman who assigns her a disastrous nickname that follows her back to the country. But she turns the tables on the gentleman when she finds him wrecked on the shore without a memory of who he is: she simply tells him that he is their servant. After his memory returns and all is explained, will they choose love and forgiveness or offense and misery? I wasn't sure that I would like the lying heroine, but she was very relatable and I like the way she learned from the experience. Mr. Carlisle was a jerk the first time they met, but we got to see his development as well. It was a more frustrating read than the others, but the characters did spend some good times together.
Moonlight Summer by Moore
A woman with a new step-family tries to enjoy her holiday by the sea, but her parents are determined to see her married off so she can chaperone her two younger stepsisters. But she's more intrigued by the man she keeps meeting, often in the moonlight by the seashore, who is not accepted anywhere, though he's a lord. Will she choose duty over heart? The characters were nice, her family's designs become more clear, and their moonlight conversations were sweet.
Overall, a collection of sweet, traditional Regency romance novellas that I had to finish in an afternoon.
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