“I just love Carla Kelly's books. Regular people--aka, those not earls, barons, dukes or marquesses--need romance too, even in historical times. And Kelly gives us what we want.
Somewhere in the midden of my office I have MARRYING THE CAPTAIN by Kelly. I bought it, but didn't get around to reading it right away, and now--who knows where it is? But it is the first book about the three bastard daughters of an evil viscount, or marquess or some such. I read THE SURGEON'S LADY, the second book, and loved it. And now, I have read the third book, MARRYING THE ROYAL MARINE, and loved it as well. So much that I went back and read TSL, and am going to dig through my cave and find MTC so I can read it too.
This is the youngest sister. She's grown up while her sisters have married and had children, so it's at least 3 years since the last book. Polly is shipping out to Portugal to join the naval surgeon's wife (and the surgeon, of course) and help with the work there. On the same ship is a Lt. Col. of the Royal Marines, on a quest to interview ordinary ranks of marines to gather ideas about how they might fight more efficiently. She gets desperately seasick, the marine standing guard outside her door alerts the colonel--and we're off. This is just a lovely, lovely--very adventurous--story. I liked it a lot.”
