Wicked Widow by Amanda Quick

Madeline Deveridge is known to the ton as the "Wicked Widow." Everyone knows that she killed her husband, even if it was ruled an accident that he died in a house fire. She doesn't go out in Society, generally, but she has come out to force Artemis Hunt to help her find her maid, a girl who was kidnapped from the pleasure gardens that are run by him (of course, a secret from the rest of the world.)
Artemis isn't too happy to be pulled into the caper. He doesn't want anything to ruin his perfectly crafted plans for revenge and Madeline is poised to do just that.

Three stars

This book came out April 4, 2000

Vanza #

Follows I Thee Wed

Followed by Lie By Midnight

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I Thee Wed by Amanda Quick

Emma Greyson is not at a good time in her life. She sold her grandmother's cottage and invested the money in a ship that has not come in. Until it does, she's working as a lady's companion. But at the current house party, she is feeling rather pressured. One of the gentleman is chasing her and now he's ended up dead.

Edison Stokes is at the same house party. He's looking for a book that was stolen from a very powerful dead man. Once he sets eyes on Emma, he knows she can help. So he gives her an alibi for when the man was murdered. The two travel back to London together with Edison hiring Emma to help him m get ahold of the book. As they work together, their attraction grows stronger.

Three stars

This book came out April 6, 1999

Vanza #2

Follows With This Ring

Followed by Wicked Widow

Borrowed as audiobook from  Audible

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With This Ring by Amanda Quick

Beatrice Poole's uncle, who was supposed to provide a dowry for her cousin but he died in a brothel right after supposedly purchasing a pair of mythic rings. She appeals for help from Leo Drake, who knows a few things about myths since his family has always been known as the "Mad Earls of Monkton." Together they look through the slums and brothels of London whilst falling in love. Not my favorite Amanda Quick but one of the better ones.

Three stars

This book came out in 1998

Vanza #1

Followed by I Thee Wed

Borrowed as audiobook from Audible Premium Plus

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Lie by Moonlight by Amanda Quick

Concordia Glade thought that she had landed the perfect job. She had just been fired from her last position and working as a teacher to four girls at an out of the way castle seemed like a dream come true. Except that the dream was more like a nightmare. The girls kept telling her that their last teacher disappeared mysteriously and Concordia is beginning to think that she's about to do the same. She and the girls concoct a plan to escape. Their pyrotechnics display annoys Ambrose Wells who has come to the castle in order to disrupt the plans of a master criminal. Ambrose uses his Vanza training to help right wrongs and this is a huge speed bump.

Concordia and Ambrose will have to work together to save the girls and maybe even fall in love along the way.

Vanza #4

Three stars

This book came out in 2005

Follows Wicked Widow

Audiobook from Audible Plus catalog

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