The Charmer: An Assassins Guild Novel

C.J. Archer

Nov 2013 · Assassins Guild Book 1 · C.J. Archer

About this ebook

This book is also available in the ASSASSINS GUILD BOX SET. By purchasing the set, you get 4 books at a lower price than you would buying them individually.

Elizabethan England: He was the last man she needed, but the only one she wanted. 

Orlando Holt has never assassinated a woman before. The lovely, feisty Lady Lynden will be his first. She's supposed to be a vicious murderess, but when Orlando begins to have doubts, he sets out to discover the identity of the person who hired him. What he learns will turn his world upside down, and propel him headlong into love with a woman who is immune to his charms. 

Twice widowed by the age of twenty-four, Lady Susanna Lynden has had enough of charming men. Her last husband knew all the right things to say to get her to the marriage bed…then made her life miserable. Money may be scarce and her house falling down around her, but the exotic fruit from her orange trees will keep poverty away. Except someone is thwarting her at every turn. Someone who may even want her dead.

Ratings and reviews

My husband's Google account is on my phone. I'm reviewing this from there. I can't believe any of the reviews for this book are real. Rarely do I put a book down (I'll suffer through) but this one o just couldn't go on. Bad, bad, bad writing. Did not feel it was in the period it stated it was in. Language was completely modern. Totaly unbelievable. Too long! They never got to the point. It just went on and on and on.... Book could've been half as long.

The story was very entertaining and I enjoyed it immensely. However, in the second half of the book there are sections missing. I would have given it 5 stars if it had been complete.

A sweet story, but predictable. The language was disturbingly American and 20th century, so it should have been written in a contemporary setting. The author tried, but it's only minimally a 'historical' romance.

About the author

1 Million books sold

C.J. Archer has loved history and books for as long as she can remember and feels fortunate that she found a way to combine the two with her writing. She has at various times worked as a librarian, IT support person and technical writer but in her heart has always been a fiction writer. C.J. spent her early childhood in the dramatic beauty of outback Queensland, Australia, but now lives in suburban Melbourne with her husband and two children.