The Governess Affair

Courtney Milan

Apr 2012 · The Brothers Sinister Book 1 · Courtney Milan

About this eBook

The start of a critically acclaimed historical romance series by New York Times bestselling author Courtney Milan...

Hugo Marshall earned the nickname "the Wolf of Clermont" for his ruthless ambition--a characteristic that has served him well, elevating the coal miner's son to the right hand man of a duke. When he's ordered to get rid of a pestering governess by fair means or foul, it's just another day at work.

But after everything Miss Serena Barton has been through at the hands of his employer, she is determined to make him pay. She won't let anyone stop her--not even the man that all of London fears. They might call Hugo Marshall the Wolf of Clermont, but even wolves can be brought to heel...

The books in the Brothers Sinister series:
½. The Governess Affair (free prequel novella)
1. The Duchess War
1½. A Kiss for Midwinter (a companion novella to The Duchess War)
2. The Heiress Effect
3. The Countess Conspiracy
4. The Suffragette Scandal
4½. Talk Sweetly to Me

Ratings and reviews

This feels like reading a nice fanfiction. The historical setting feels a bit off with all the modern sentence structures and vocabularies, but probably it's not fair to me to criticize a story which is probably written for self-indulgence of romance and love fantasies.

I picked up this book because it was a short story and I was bored. I started to read and I became somewhat intrigued by the stubbornes of the young lady portrayed in the story and how she heed no warning. I liked her. The humor got me and before I knew I had to read it until the end. I loved it. I recommend it, although it is somewhat dark because it touches on rape and that is sad, but at the same it leaves you with a sense of hope. I did love it.

Short story, but it gives a good insight to what Milan's writing style is. She's got a terrific way with words and plots, and I'd actually ended up reading everything else that she'd written because I liked this so much. One thing that I love about the author is that her research for her books, often based on real events or social issues at the time, are very meticulous and in depth, much more so than many other authors of the same genre.

About the author

 Courtney Milan is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical romance. Her books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist.

Courtney lives in the Rocky Mountains with her husband, a medium-sized dog, and an attack cat. Before she started writing historical romance, she experimented with various occupations: computer programming, dog-training, scientificating.... But her favorite job is the one she's now doing full time--writing romance.

If you want to know when Courtney's next book will come out, please visit her website at http://www.courtneymilan.com, where you can sign up to receive an email when she has her next release.