The Earl's Secret

December 1, 2006
Tired of the trouncing he has recently been receiving in the " Scottish Monthly" " Gazette," David Lansdale, the Earl of Treybourne and essayist for London's " Whiteleaf's Review," has come to Edinburgh to meet with his rival political essayist, A. J. Goodfellow, to see if the two of them can work out some kind of truce. Using the name "David Archer," Lansdale arrives at the magazine's offices hoping he can find out exactly who the mysterious Goodfellow is, but the first person he crosses paths with is Anna Fairchild. Realizing that if he discovers her secret--she is really the one writing Goodfellow's essays--it will ruin everything for which she has worked so hard, Anna does her best to throw the charming Mr. Archer off track. Two beautifully matched protagonists engage in a wonderfully amusing literary and romantic battle of the wits in Brisbin's latest deftly crafted Regency novel, the perfect mix of history and romance.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)