A Winter Scandal

August 29, 2011
Bestseller Camp (An Affair Without End) launches a Regency trilogy with this sweet smalltown tale. Thea Bainbridge, a plain-faced “old maid” of 27, pines over Lord Gabriel Morecombe, who seems to have entirely forgotten the torrid kiss he and Thea shared 10 years before. Then Thea finds an abandoned baby in the church’s Nativity display, his clothes pinned with a brooch matching the Morecombe signet ring. Gabriel denies fathering the child and sweeps Thea away on a quest to find young Matthew’s parents and get back in time for the squire’s Christmas ball. Readers will enjoy the Austenesque details of village life as Camp piles up a soap opera’s worth of affairs and betrayals.

November 1, 2011
A vicar's daughter, Thea Bainbridge is considered long in the tooth and too much of a bluestocking to ever be wed. Her life with her brother, who replaced their father as vicar, is unbearably dull. Then Thea finds a live baby in the Christmas manger, and her world turns upside down. The baby's diaper is closed with a brooch with Lord Gabriel Morecombe's insignia on it, so Thea immediately assumes that that the infant is one of his illegitimate offspring. But Gabriel is as puzzled by the baby as Thea is. Together, they try to find the real parents. A neat mystery, a dollop of danger, and, of course, a steamy love story make Camp's latest Regency romance a sure crowd-pleaser.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)