Jack of Clubs

By Barbara Metzger

Book Overview

Years ago, Captain Jack Endicott's half-sister vanished after a carriage accident. He now sets out to honor his father's dying wish and find her. Jack plans to open a lavish gaming parlor and hire only beautiful ladies to deal cards, possibly finding his sister. All he needs is a little luck. Instead he finds prim schoolteacher Allie Silver, who needs a guardian for one of her most precocious pupils. With such an unlikely duo, all bets are off in a wild game of romance.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451218051
• ISBN13: 9780451218056
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

jACK OF CLUBS

I ENJOYED THE BOOK VERY MUCH AND I HOPE THE READ MORE BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR.

enjoyable but...

Overall I enjoyed the book. It was funny, and the chemistry between the characters was steamy without being trashy. I like a regency romances that expand my vocabulary- it makes me feel like reading romances isn't totally wasting my brain. I did feel that the story dragged a little in the middle, and based on other regencies I've read, I think they didn't emphasize enough how beyond the pale it would have been for him to open the Red and Black and at the same time they over emphasized her expectation of still being treated like a lady after becoming a governess. Also some of the exchanges felt too modern. Still the pluses out numbered the minuses.

Not her best but Metzger's second rate

is still my idea of a wonderful time. The only thing that might keep it from my keeper shelf was the heroine. I got tired of her harping about her Good Name and not being seen with the hero so that her reputation might be preserved. She came across as a ninny. I didn't see what Jack found attractive....She did redeem herself slightly by dealing well with Harriet the demon child and later on, she's less of a pill. I almost put it down, which never happens with Metzger. But the hero, the secondary characters the fun of the Metzger style make it worth the money.