THE EARL’S MISTRESS by Liz Carlyle

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Can you judge a book by its cover? An old question to be sure, and with romances, I believe you can. Historical romances, anyways. This book is as lush and ripe as its cover.

This is my first book by Carlyle, and apparently, it is also her last romance. Booklist gave it a starred review, (and I concur) and also featured an interview with the author, who seems ready to move on to other things. Luckily, she has 22 novels already published so I’m bound to stumble across another.

The premise of this book is that the young widow Isabella Aldridge has been forsaken by her husband’s family after his death. Her parents are gone, and she has a young stepsister and half-sister to look after. She found a job as a governess for a woman of questionable repute, and when that child goes off to school, Isabella agrees to take another job as governess for the earl, Wiliam Mowbrey.

But when she arrives at his country estate, he takes one look at her and has a different idea altogether. He wants her for his mistress, but she is so shocked she runs away. She quickly realizes that she doesn’t have many options; good families won’t hire her and she needs an income, so she ends up his mistress.

This being a romance, they fall in love but fight their feelings until the very end. Lots of psychological torment and hot kinky sex precedes the happy ending, making this a really fun read.

10/14 Stacy Alesi, AKA the BookBitch

THE EARL’S MISTRESS by Liz Carlyle. Avon (August 26, 2014). ISBN 978-0062100306. 400p.

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