Jane Ashford
Author of The Bargain
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Jane Nancy LeCompte writes romance novels as Jane Ashford and Jane LeCompte.
Series
Works by Jane Ashford
The Arts and Crafts Computer: Using Your Computer as an Artist's Tool by Janet Ashford (2001-09-08) (1713) 1 copy
Doubleday Romance Library #36: Come November, Bluestocking, The Hidden Spring (1980) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- LeCompte, Nancy Jane
- Other names
- LeCompte, Jane
Ashford, Jane - Birthdate
- 1948-08-20
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
- Birthplace
- Eaton, Ohio, USA
- Places of residence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Occupations
- romance novelist
- Awards and honors
- RT Career Acheivement Award Nomination (twice)
- Short biography
- Nancy Jane LeCompte was born in 20 August 1948 in Eaton, Ohio, USA. She discovered Georgette Heyer in junior high school and was entranced by the glittering world and witty language of Regency England. That delight was part of what led her to study English literature and travel widely in Britain and Europe. She has lived in New York, Boston and LA, her writing life punctuated by breaks where the fates intervened and swept her off in different directions. Today, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Jane has written historical and contemporary romances as Jane Ashford and Jane LeCompte. Her books have been published in England, Spain, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and Latvia, as well as the U.S. She is a two-time nominee for a Career Achievement Award by Romantic Times Magazine. Away from romance writing for several years, she recently completed a new historical. - Disambiguation notice
- Jane Nancy LeCompte writes romance novels as Jane Ashford and Jane LeCompte.
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Reviews
A Gentleman Ought to Know
by Jane Ashford
A Regency Romance with the right blend of intrigue, mystery, action, and adventure which I definitely enjoyed.
Overall, it was a satisfying story with well-rounded characters who were easy to wish the best for.
While this was fourth book in the Duke's Estates series, don't worry. It can easily be read on it's own.
Thank-you to Sourcebooks Casablanca via NetGalley for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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by Jane Ashford
A Regency Romance with the right blend of intrigue, mystery, action, and adventure which I definitely enjoyed.
Overall, it was a satisfying story with well-rounded characters who were easy to wish the best for.
While this was fourth book in the Duke's Estates series, don't worry. It can easily be read on it's own.
Thank-you to Sourcebooks Casablanca via NetGalley for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.
#AGentlemanOughttoKnow #NetGalley… (more)
Lord Randolph Gresham has come to town to find a wife. It should only take him one season. Verity Sinclair has managed to convince her family that she can have one season to find someone with whom she can have adventures, not a country vicar. But the two of them keep meeting and keep finding things in common.
Charming read.
Charming read.
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Charlotte Deeping met her best friends when they went away to school and they’ve been the closest of friends since. They solved mysteries and enjoyed each other, but now, Charlotte is the only one who remains unmarried. She didn’t do well on the marriage mart because of her ‘prickly’ personality. Now, at home in the country, with none of her friends nearby, she’s a tad on the bored side. If she just had a mystery to solve or something to keep her occupied, she’d get through it all. It is hunting season, and her family is a renowned breeder of hunting horses, so maybe someone or something of interest will show up at the annual hunt.
Laurence Lindley, the Marquess of Glendarvon, is good friends with Charlotte’s brother, Stanley, who invited him to be a house guest for the annual hunt. Laurence hasn’t had a very happy life, but although he constantly thinks of what happened in terms of scandal, it really wasn’t. He was only four when his parents were gruesomely murdered. He never, ever, talks about it. It isn’t a secret, exactly, he just doesn’t wish to discuss it and doesn’t tell people about it. He is excited for the hunt since it is one of his favorite ways to pass the time – and he loves being able to gallop across the countryside on his excellent mount, Ranger. He even finds himself enjoying the ‘prickly, Miss Charlotte Deeping.
Charlotte learned about Laurence’s parents and she also learned from both him and her brother that it was a very private matter for him and he didn’t want to talk about it. However, Charlotte just couldn’t leave a good mystery alone no matter anyone else’s feelings about it. Then, to add another mystery, there was an odd finding at the estate of her good friend Cecelia and her husband the Duke of Tereford. When Laurence seems to recognize the find, Charlotte is off and running – and dragging all of them along with her – whether they wanted to come along or not.
I enjoyed the basic story and most of the characters. I didn’t care for Charlotte at all – I found her to be bit*** rather than prickly. She could have been a great character with a great romance, but she just didn’t cut it for me. I found her to not only be bit***, but she seemed to have no respect for, nor kind thoughts about any male. The book was filled with male-bashing and that just makes me want to put the book down. Yes, I know feminism is the theme of the day right now, but – does being for females actually mean being against males? Every female in this book had nothing but negative things to say about the males. It just made me really sad.
Can I recommend this book? Well – yes and no. If you don’t mind a prickly, male-bashing female lead who steps on everyone’s wishes and then acts as if she is the injured party, then yes, I do recommend it because the mystery and bones of the story are good. Otherwise, I can tell you that I enjoyed the bones of the story, I disliked Charlotte, and I would not read it a second time.
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