The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

 The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn - 296 pages

She was in the wrong place...

Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised to discover a smugglers’ hideaway tucked inside a cave. But her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her bound and gagged on the captain’s bed…

He found her at the wrong time...

Known to society as a rascal and reckless privateer, Captain Andrew James Rokesby actually transports essential goods and documents for the British goverment. Setting sail on a time-sensitive voyage to Portugal, he's stunned to find a woman waiting for him in his cabin. Surley, his imaganation is getting the better of him.  But no, she is very real - and his duty to the crown means he's stuck with her.

Can two wrongs make the most perfect right?

When Andrew learns that she is a Bridgerton, he knows he will likely have to wed her to avert a scandal - though Poppy has no idea that he is the son of an earl and neighbor to her aristocratic cousins in Kent.  On the high seas, their war of words soon gives way to intoxicating passion.  But when Andrew's secret is revealed, will his declaration of love be enough to capture her heart...?

The Revenant by Kat Richardson

The Revenant by Kat Richardson - 464 pages
Greywalker Series (Book 9)

This final book in the series would be pretty incomprehensible as a standalone since there is little explanation of character relationships and Harper's greywalker status.  The plot goes forward at a breakneck speed and helps bring closure to Harper and Quin's fight with his father's evil dark project.  It is disappointing that this final book isn't on the level of the previous.  Parts of this book just read like a travelogue of Portugal.  There is  a lot of description of the country's back story and architectural details of locations that the characters don't really have a realistic way of knowing at that point in the story.  Plus most of the detail given isn't really relative at all to the action of the plot so it just throws the reader out of the story.