So Christina Dodd can write romcoms! Case in point: A Daughter of Fair Verona (#1,251), a riff on the classic Romeo and Juliet. What if they didn't die at the end, but instead settle into becoming leading lights in Verona society, running a successful wine business and raising a passel of kids?
Lady Rosaline is their oldest daughter, and the sensible one in the family. She's successfully matched off her three previous fiancés with their ideal mate while adroitly avoiding matrimony herself. Until her parents match her with the infamous Duke Stephano. He's already outlived three wives, so Rosie is going to be his good luck charm. Too bad for him when he turns out dead with a knife in his chest in the Montague's garden at the couple's betrothal party. Since everyone suspects Rosie of wielding the knife (she didn't, as much as she would have liked to!) she has to get to the bottom of things. To complicate matters even more, Rosie finally meets her one true love! Could things get any worse? Well, yes, they can!
A really fun romp of a read. I'll read anything by Christina Dodd that comes out in this series, and lucky for us, it looks promising!
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