Romantic suspense is a extremely popular now. If you grew up with or learned to love TV shows such as Man From U.N.C.L.E., CSI, or NCIS, this book will remind you of those nail-biting episodes. Ericson's writing is superb, loaded with details and plot twists, but the romance takes center-stage, which is what I like. 

Regency-era romance can be predictable, and it takes a good writer to hold my attention when I can guess how the plot will go. In this book, Whitmore uses well-developed characters to keep the reader engaged. The hero checks all the boxes--strong and commanding with any antagonist but sensitive and humorous with those under his protection.

Sarah May Warren definitely inherited her mother's talent for writing a fast-moving rom-com that engages the reader. While several authors have hopped on the house renovation bandwagon, Sarah put a fresh spin on it with casting her heroine as a TV personality. As for the hero, I think readers will identify with Daisy's audience and vote to keep him in view. 

This story blends several tropes that historical romance readers love--a wounded hero, a marriage of convenience, a woman caring for an abandoned baby, and saving the home from a grasping relative. The secondary characters support the plot without taking it over, and the setting (a failing estate in the post-Civil War South) makes it realistic.