ENCHANTED BY MOONLIGHT by Sandra Sookoo

Title:  ENCHANTED BY MOONLIGHT

Series:  Fortune and Glory #0.5

Author:  Sandra Sookoo

Publisher:  New Independence Books

Publish Date:   04.14.2020

Category /Genre:  Historical Romance

Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content

Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused

Received from:  Sandra Sookoo 

Goodreads link: Enchanted by Moonlight

Date completed: 03.21.2020

Description from the publisher:

Sometimes, the romance of a lifetime starts with one perfect night.

It’s the year 1885 and the world has just begun giving up its ancient secrets. Miss Charlotte Blakely is a librarian in Rome. She’s researching evidence of the fabled Veil of Veronica, but her time abroad is drawing to a close. Her viscount father is dying and has called his children home, yet a chance encounter with a stranger one balmy night might change her direction.

Mr. Everett Desmond is the English ambassador to Rome. He’s dashing and would have been daring had he gone down a different path, but being jilted at the altar sent him far from England and sordid memories. Now, life has grown staid and boring. When he literally crashes into a pretty lady on the street, he’s intrigued enough to further an acquaintance.

Desire flares after a couple of moonlit strolls, and a kiss at the Trevi fountain irrevocably changes both of their lives. Budding romance blooms beneath the heat and they find themselves enchanted enough to land into potential scandal. Is it a love to last a lifetime or is it merely a moonlight indiscretion? Only they can decide what they truly want for the future.

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ENCHANTED BY MOONLIGHT is the first book in the Fortune and Glory series.  This could be read as a stand-alone romance and has a satisfying conclusion, but Everett and Charlotte’s adventures do continue in the book in the series.

This is the first book I have read from Sandra Sookoo and I devoured it!

I loved Everett and Charlotte from the moment I met each of them individually, to their meet-cute, and on to the last page.  Their story is smoking hot!!  Beside the word passion in the dictionary should be a universal buy-link so that anyone wanting to understand the word could just read this book.  And that scene at the Trevi fountain that is mentioned in the blurb?  It is fun, sweet, and oh-so-romantic.  Every couple hopes to have that type of epic date in their courtship.

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Fortune and Glory Series:

0.5  Enchanted by Moonlight

1.      Ladies Prefer Adventure

Also from Sandra Sookoo:

·         Act of Pardon

·         Andie’s Halloween Fright

·         Andy’s Gift

·         Angel’s Master

·         Angels, Demons, and Designer Shoes

·         The Apothecary’s Assistant (Enduring Legacy #6)

·         Be Amused

·         Be Mine, Maybe?

·         Bedded by the Devil of Derbyshire

·         Blink

·         Blocking the Bride

·         Cairo Nights

·         Caribbean Heat

·         Changing Tides

·         Chasing Love and Magic

·         A Christmas Interlude

·         Claiming His Wife

·         Come Hither

·         Courtesans and Thieves

·         The Cradlemaker

·         Damaged Cargo

·         Date Night

·         Date Night, Twice Told

·         Dead Ruby Slippers

·         Demons and Stilettos Are a Girl’s Best Friend

·         Disenchanted Christmas

·         Dragons at Dawn

·         Dressed in White (Colors of Scandal #1)

·         The Eighth Night

·         Embracing the Lemonade Life

·         Fatal Pursuits

·         Foodies Guide to Kitchen Magic

·         Fractured

·         The Haunting of Amelia Pritchart

·         Hollywood Dreams and Buttercream

·         Hooked Up Over Spring Break

·         Hunter’s Moon Magic

·         A Kiss at Christmas

·         Lady Isabella’s Splendid Folly (Fortunes of Fate #7)

·         The Lady’s Chocolatier

·         Life Suddenly

·         Lord Atherby’s Parlor Games

·         The Magic of Gingerbread (Christmas Wishes #5)

·         Marking Time

·         The Matchmaker Wager

·         Miss Spencer and the Con Man

·         No Biting Allowed (Unexpected Reality #1)

·         No Such Thing

·         Not Just Make Believe

·         Nurturing that Spark

·         Off the List

·         Once a Pirate

·         Once Upon a Hero

·         Operation Wedding Crash

·         Perfect Homecoming 

·         Remembering Andy 

·         Ricochet 

·         Rocket’s Red Glare

·         Safe from the Flames 

·         Set Aflame

·         Stories of a Naughty Duchess

·         Storm Tossed Rogue (Men of the Marque #1)

·         Sweeter than Sugar

·         To Love a Sea Rogue

·         The Trouble with Love

·         An Unexpectedly Delicious Christmas

·         Unraveled Souls

·         Wagering on Christmas

·         Warped Perceptions

·         Wedgie Tales and Panty Lines

·         The Widow’s Maestro

·         Winging It

·         Winner Takes All

·         Winning His Life

·         Wishful Thinking

Afternoon Treats Series:

1.      Old Habits

2.      Proper Women Don’t

3.      Out for a Spin

4.      Hole in One

5.      Private Screening

Darrington Family Series: 

1.      Marriage Minded Lord

2.      To Bed or to Wed

3.      The Bridal Contract

Destiny Series: 

1.      Adrift

2.      Consumed

Eight Realms Series: 

1.      Courted by the Vampire

2.      Charmed by the Werewolf

3.      Captured by the Dragon

Entwined Tales Series:

1.      It Must Be Magic

2.      It Must Be Love

Fang Shui Series:

·         The Art of Fang Shui

·         Vegetarian at Midnight

Francesville Series:

1.      Coming Up Daffy

2.      Twelve Kisses Later

Holiday Magic Series: 

1.      Exiles from Christmas

2.      Cupid in Blue

3.      Five Leaf Clover

4.      No Such Thing

5.      Midsummer Night’s Steve

6.      Tail on the Moon

Lords of Happenstance Series: 

1.      What the Stubborn Viscount Desires

2.      What a Wayward Lord Needs

3.      What the Dashing Duke Desires

Lords of the Night Series: 

1.      Devil Take the Duke

2.      Bitten by the Earl

3.      Adrift with the Viscount

Redemption Cove Series:

1.      Two Mr. Rights

2.      A Perfect Arrangement

3.      The Engagement Present

Scandal in Surrey Series:

1.      Lady Parker’s Grand Affair

2.      The Bride’s Gambit

3.      Misfortune’s Lady

4.      Miss Bennett’s Naughty Secret

Scandalous Shorts Series:

1.      Library Tryst 

2.      Bedroom Assignation

3.      Staircase Encounter

4.      A Garden Affair

Thieves of the Ton Series: 

1.      Captivated by an Adventurous Lady

2.      Engaged to a Scandalous Earl

3.      Married on a Wicked Morning

4.      Intrigued by an Ancient Pedigree

4.5 Beguiled on a Christmas Morning

5.      Caught with a Stolen Diamond

6.      Tortured by a Horrible Secret

6.5  Delighted on a Summer’s Evening

7.      Trapped in the British Museum

8.      Charmed at a Yuletide Ball

Unlikely Partners Series:

1.      From Indiana with Love

2.      Love and Cold Pie

3.      For Your Ears Only

4.      Goldfinches

5.      Diamonds (and Girlfriends) Need a Keeper

6.      Cook or Say Die

7.      The Family Who Loved Me

Wolfish Series: 

1.      A Wolfish Scandal

2.      A Wolfish Tangle

3.      A Wolfish Tryst at Christmas

4.      A Wolfish Valentine

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