The V Series Analysis

The V series are a series of contemporary and historical romances by the prolific and popular British American writer Jane Feather. Initially intended to be a standalone novel, the first book in the V series was the highly popular, Venus first published in 1988.While initially intended to be free standing novels, the first novel in the series was so popular that Feather went on to write six more V series titles between 1993 and 1994. Most of the novels in the series are set in the latter period of the Elizabethan era and take place all over Europe. While the series is tied together by a similarity in name, given that all the novels are named with a title beginning with a V, these novels do not have a singular character like you would expect

The novel opens with a highborn Lord, Nicholas Kincaid lonely in a tavern in London. The last thing he expects to find in the gloom of such a tavern was a lovely woman that made him feel such deep emotion that he had never felt in years. The lovely woman is Miss Polly Wyatt a professional con artist who ran swindles on the rich and famous in London. When she flashes a come-hither smile and leads him to a bedchamber, he has no choice but to follow her despite his reservations. Luckily for him, he quickly realizes that the ravishing Miss Wyatt was in cahoots with the landlord to render him senseless to make it easier for them to rob him of all he had. Despite the circumstances of their meeting, Lord Kincaid decides that the unwitting Miss Wyatt would make a perfect spy. He intends to make her an unwitting spy at the king’s court where he has been unable to get into the inner circle for years. But he never made provision for the chance that he could fall in love or bewitched by the charms of the beautiful

But the Davenports had never planned for the wit and scrutiny of Marcus Devlin. Devlin who held the title of marquis of Carrington had heard from his nephew of the beauty that had all of Brussels in thrall and had come to town to meet the enigmatic