My love for the Regency is a peculiar thing to me, simultaneously worth examination and worth ignoring the impulse to examine too deeply a thing that has become so entwined into my life. Year after year it snowballed until that was my exclusive romance genre for many years (until the last several years when I have begun experimenting roundly).

And I think that is where I fell, at least a little bit, in love with the Regency era. Through my roommate/friend’s influence, I also read Jane Austen for the first time. Pirates by Linda Lael Miller was one of our favorites, so much so that we recorded our own book on tape for it.

In college, burnt out from the sheer volume of reading, my roommate and I began picking up novels from grocery stores and gas stations and experimenting with the variety of romance. I am sure I enjoyed it at the time but when I started to see Derek Craven popping up in Romancelandia Twitter (and then heard a lively discussion on Fated Mates) I figured it was time to revisit this book and see (or remember) what all the fuss was about.Īs a preteen and teenager I read YA specific romances until I veered off course into non-fiction and more contemporary fiction.

I had read this at least a decade ago after discovering Lisa Kleypas and enjoying her. But here, in a perilous shadow-realm of ever-shifting fortunes, even a proper “mouse” can be transformed into a breathtaking enchantress-and a world-weary gambler can be shaken to his cynical core by the power of passion…and the promise of love. And now duty demands he allow Sara Fielding into his world-with her impeccable manners and her infuriating innocence. But curiosity has enticed the prim, well-bred gentlewoman out of her safe haven-and into Derek Craven’s dangerous world.Ī handsome, tough and tenacious Cockney, he rose from poverty to become lord of London’s most exclusive gambling house-a struggle that has left Derek Craven fabulously wealthy, but hardened and suspicious. In the shelter of her country cottage, Sara Fielding puts pen to paper to create dreams. She stood at danger’s threshold-then love beckoned her in.

Read dreaming of you by lisa kleypas