Booklist Reviews ENCHANTING THE LADY

Issue: December 1, 2007

Enchanting the Lady.

Kennedy, Kathryne (Author)

Jan 2008. 336 p. Love Spell, paperback, $6.99. (0505527502).

In a Victorian England where magic dwells, Sir Terence Blackwell ignores the prejudice against

“werepeople” to faithfully serve Prince Albert, protecting him from harm, especially the danger caused by

the relics of Merlin, artifacts forged by the grand wizard himself and too powerful for humans, magic

bearing or not, to possess. He can’t believe the day he smells relic magic within the prince’s own palace,

nor that its scent clings so strongly to a striking debutante, Lady Felicity Seymour, taking her tests to

inherit her ducal title. Terence is willing to risk anything to discover the lady’s ties to the relic, although he

never realized anything could include his heart. The first in Kennedy’s Relics of Merlin series, the novel

takes a number of fairy tales, most notably Beauty and the Beast, and delightfully turns them on their

collective ear. Playful prose carries the reader through this well-crafted, sexy romp of a story sporting an

engaging cast.

— Nina C. Davis