Kristi is the RITA® award winning author of Regency romance novels from a Christian worldview. Thanks to Bethany House and Litfuse for providing a free ebook for review. But it’s definitely Christian fiction, and the faith elements are handled especially well. The writing is excellent, with plenty of plot twists and turns, quirky characters and plenty of humour.

I obviously downloaded this immediately, and am planning to read it right after I finish this review …Ī Noble Masquerade will appeal to fans of historical romance, especially Regency romance. When I checked Amazon, I found I was right: Kristi Ann Hunter also has a free prequel novella available, A Lady of Esteem. It wasn’t as though I felt I was missing information, more that it felt like the characters had more history together than I was seeing on the page. There were times when it didn’t seem like A Noble Masquerade was the first novel in the series at all. You’ll just have to read it for yourself to find out what happens. Then the suspense plot takes hold, and I don’t want to say anything more because that would be a spoiler. Miranda finds herself fighting an attraction to Marlow, completely the wrong man, and getting to know Marsh through his letters … and finding herself attracted to him as well. Only the valet finds the letter and posts it, and a week later, Miranda gets a response from Marsh, the mysterious Duke of Marshington who no one has seen for nine long years. A single woman writing to a man is most unladylike.īut after one particularly stressful evening, in which Lady Miranda realises her shallow younger sister is going to eclipse her socially once she is “out”, Miranda finds herself in conversation with her brother’s new valet-his handsome new valet–and writing yet another letter to Marsh. For years, she’s been pouring her unladylike heart out to Marsh, her brother’s best friend since his school days. She has unladylike thoughts and sometimes does unladylike things, and she’s currently bemoaning her single state. Lady Miranda Hawthorne might be titled and have been raised to be a lady, but she’s not a lady at heart. It’s also got a strong suspense plot, and it’s no secret romantic suspense is my favourite genre. I really must read this again!Ī Noble Masquerade is Regency romance, my favourite historical period and one that is woefully underrepresented in Christian fiction. A Noble Masquerade was Kristi Ann Hunter’s debut novel, and it went on to win final in several awards, and won the 2016 Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Inspirational Romance. It’s Throwback Thursday, and today I’m sharing a review that originally appeared at Iola’s Christian Reads in September 2015.

A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter