Books by Kelly Bowen and Complete Book Reviews
Kelly Bowen. Grand Central/Forever, $6 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4555-8381-2
A bitter revenge scheme provides the chance for new love in Bowen’s promising debut historical. Gisele Whitby has the poor fortune to be married to Adam Levire, the sadistic Marquess of Valence. To escape her husband, she fakes her own death in a...
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Kelly Bowen. Grand Central/Forever, $8 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4555-8383-6
Bowen’s impish sense of humor is expressed by lively, entertaining characters in this wickedly witty Regency. Eleanor, Dowager Duchess of Worth, and her comely young companion, Jenna Hughes, are left to their own devices by the duchess’s son,...
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Kelly Bowen. Grand Central/Forever, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4555-8388-1
Bowen strikes gold with her third Lords of Worth Regency (after A Good Rogue Is Hard to Find). This story has it all: romance, suspense, wit, and Bowen’s trademark smart and slightly quirky characters. Josephine “Joss” Somerhall is a fiercely...
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Kelly Bowen. Grand Central/Forever, $5.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4555-3679-5
Bowen's irresistible Regency is like the most popular debutante at the ball: pretty, witty, mysterious, and full of coquettish allure. From the first line to the happy dénouement, Bowen builds enough romantic heat to melt midwinter snow. A dead man...
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Kelly Bowen. Forever, $5.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4555-6337-1
In her second Season for Scandal novel (after Duke of My Heart), Bowen once again sets up one of her fabulous Regency-era women in such unusual circumstances that it’s no wonder the eponymous duke finds her irresistible. To keep order in London’s...
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Kelly Bowen. Forever, $5.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-1-4555-6341-8
Bowen’s third Season for Scandal Regency (after A Duke to Remember) is a single-sitting read whose main characters are as diverting as they are seductive. Once Lady Angelique Archer is introduced, everything else takes a backseat to her heady...
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Kelly Bowen. Forever, $7.99 mass market (464p) ISBN 978-1-4789-1859-2
In the appealing second Devils of Dover Regency (after A Duke in the Night), Bowen brings together two wounded souls who cannot heal without each other. Rose Hayward is an artist, revealing the hidden beauty of her subjects through her paintings....
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Kelly Bowen. Forever, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-1-4789-1862-2
Bowen’s slightly loopy third Devils of Dover novel (after Last Night with the Earl), set in 1820 but with only lip service paid to the class strictures of the era, introduces a couple entangled in the smuggling that was rife on the English coast in...
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Kelly Bowen. Forever, $15.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-5387-1815-5
Bowen (the Lords of Worth series) draws on the lives of Nancy Wake and Josephine Baker and the 2018 discovery of a Paris apartment untouched since WWII in this rich historical tale. Lia Leclaire learns she has inherited a Paris apartment from her...
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