Lord Nightingale's Triumph (Zebra Regency Romance)

If ever you meet a too-top-lofty Duke, you'll be absolutely delighted at having first read this book. (Pun intended. You'll have to read the book to figure it out.) This is the third in the four-book series about Lord Nightingale's escapades, and is just pure and simple fun! The Duke of Sotherland had twin sons; Edward and Peter. However, the Duchess was incapable of living with the duke in happy matrimony or any other kind, for that matter, and so, unhappily, when the boys were seven years old, he allowed her to live elsewhere with Peter, the younger son. The boys never forgot each other, but had no way of knowing where the other was. When Edward met Eugenia (in Lord Nightingale's Love Song) it was at a country home he had leased for a short stay out of the city. To his surprise, his face was familiar to several of the local folks, among them the rector and his family of five daughters. The oldest of these, Mary, considered herself secretly engaged to Peter, who had been in the area for some time, hiring himself out to do occasional labor, before being accused of theft, and as suddenly leaving the area for parts unknown. It helps immensely for you to have already read books one and two in this four-book series that culminates in next month's Lord Nightingale's Christmas. It's virtually impossible to adequately summarize the plot of this perfectly delightful and charming book without exceeding the word count, so let me just advise you to get all four books, and settle in for a wonderful long weekend's worth of reading about love and happiness and joy. What more could one want?

I really enjoyed this,the third book in Judith's wonder- ful series.I loved Lord Peter's and Miss Mary Butterberry's sto- ry.I also loved the scenes between Delight and the Duke of So- therland.He made a wonderful dragon for her to tame.The scenes reminded me of the scenes between Shirley Temple and Lionel Bar- rymore in "The Little Colonel",and as always Lord Nightingale is at his most irascible,matchmaking best.