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Who Lies Beneath in Rebecca Ross's Dreams Lie Beneath?

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Summary  In the realm of Azenor, there is a fortress in the clouds that was the Seren Duchy. But the Duke was assassinated by his closest friends. As they fled the mountains, the dying Duke cast a curse upon the land, making it so the people's nightmares would come to life among the streets of each town and village when each new moon rose. To fight these nightmares, magicians were designated as wardens at each place to protect the people. Clementine "Clem" Madigan grew up as a magician and warden apprentice to her father until two brothers of one of the other duchies challenges him for his position. After losing their home to the Vesper brothers, Clem makes it her mission to get close to one of them and find anything to take the Vesper family down, getting her home back in the process.  But as she infiltrates one of the brother's homes and becomes his warden partner while wearing a glamour, Clem's character is tested again and again so that even she is wondering j...

For Love or Jewels: The Curiosity Keeper Book Review

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  I enjoyed  The Curiosity Keeper  because it had a decent story. It's Book 1 of the Treasures of Surrey series, but the other two books in the series seem to be about other characters that are in Fellsworth, perhaps later or before Book 1 takes place; I don't remember coming across any of them in  The Curiosity Keeper . Since the rest of the series doesn't relate to Camille and Jonathan, I won't be reading them. The stories don't grab me the same way. Summary The Curiosity Keeper by Sarah E. Ladd is a Regency romance that alternates between two points of view: that of Camille Iverness, a shop owner's daughter in London, and that of Jonathan Gilchrist, the village apothecary in Fellsworth and heir to Kettering Hall. One night, Jonathan's father is robbed of his Bevoy Ruby and he suspects the man who sold it to him is to blame. He demands that Jonathan meet up with an old acquaintance Jonathan dislikes to track down the ruby and prevent the family's ruin....