Read This Book: A Hero for Miss Hatherleigh

Last updated on: April 25, 2019 at 7:00 am by Kelley Mathews

Read This Book: A Hero for Miss Hatherleigh 2019-04-24T21:25:58-05:00 Kelley Mathews

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My Thoughts

I’m a not-so-secret Regency romance reader. Maybe it’s my childhood fascination with Princess Diana and love for British history (I can list way too many English monarchs in order), but something about the setting appeals to me. You have to be careful, however, since many Regencies are just bodice-rippers with unnecessary and graphic scenes. (Why!?) That’s why Carolyn Miller is such a gift: her Regency series avoid such gratuitous content while immersing the reader in the setting, scenery, and culture of the period. She creates likeable, well-developed characters with faults and weaknesses we can all identify with. And in this story, she throws in a subplot dealing with the duel between a burgeoning science of paleontology and the church it apparently threatened. Lots of creativity and suspense along with the usual misunderstandings that advance a period romance.

Miller’s ability to incorporate matters of faith in a natural, effective way gives her an edge over the secular romance writers. Church and faith played a major role in that time period—more for some than for others, as now—it naturally fit into the culture of the early 19th century in England. Authors who ignore it miss an integral part of real life during that time.

A Hero for Miss Hatherleigh debuts a new series, Regency Brides: Daughters of Aynsley. The next two are scheduled for release in July and November. But Miller’s resumé includes six other Regency Bride titles, three in A Legacy of Hope and three in A Legacy of Grace. So there’s plenty more to enjoy while you wait for the new ones. I featured them in my 2018 year-end post about favorite books of the year, so it’s no surprise that I’ve enjoyed her newest.

Carolyn Miller

A little about Carolyn:

She’s Australian! She and her family (married with four kids, like me) live in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. A longtime lover of Regency romance, she has won a number of Romance Writers of American (RWA) and American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) contests as well as the Australian Omega Christian Writers Award. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Australasian Christian Writers. Her favorite authors are classics like Jane Austen (of course!), Georgette Heyer, and Agatha Christie, but she also enjoys contemporary authors like Susan May Warren and Becky Wade.

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