Prince Gabriel-of-the-long-somewhat-silly-name from a manufactured duchy in Europe, and he is everything a Prince Charming ought to be, although not, in fact, initially charming. The prince, meanwhile, is a prince from a foreign country who is overseeing some English real estate - a castle, to be exact - full of peculiar relatives and a menagerie of exotic animals. The book tells the story of Katherine "Kate" Daltry, her step-sister Victoria, and how a dog bite led to Kate trading places with her step-sister in order to win the approval of a prince for Victoria's marriage to her fiancé, Algie. If I had to suggest a date, it would probably be somewhere around 1813, during the Regency. There are many ways that princes found wives, but it is doubtful that any of them ended up with a castle and an English bride in just this way. A Kiss at Midnight, I cannot emphasize too firmly, is a fairy tale, not an historical novel. For that reason, I allowed myself more freedom with language than I have in previous historical novels. Here's a bit of the author's note at the end of the book:Ī fairy tale exists in a kind of timeless hour, caught between today and yesterday. While looking for a little something like to perk me up at the bookstore, I grabbed a copy of A Kiss at Midnight, which is kind of like a fairy tale retelling and kind of like a Regency romance and both and neither of those things at once. " when you're an Eloisa James character, that is. Kellyrfineman "Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you.
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