Oh my how I love Sarah M Edens books. I loved this book Loving Lieutenant Lancaster. His sister were fabulous with all there match making! I love how the dowager countess has taken Arabella in and away from her mean aunt and uncle. This is such a great book. Sarah truly has a way with word that everything flows so well and you get sick into the world she has created!

A well written historical read that was quite enjoyable to pick up! I loved getting to know the characters. I look forward to reading more by Sarah M Eden!

I love revisiting these characters! Though I couldn’t find an official series titles, this book includes members of the Lancaster family and the Jonquil family, as do several of Sarah’s earlier and subsequent books. Such a delight to enjoy them once again.

Just beginning one of Sarah’s novels, you know you’re in good hands. She is an expert in weaving a tale set in Regency England, giving us the norms of the day while helping us relate with the characters’ humanity. I love her prose and her pacing.

I immediately sympathized with the heroine. Her circumstances, through no fault of her own, are difficult. She’s faced so much rejection that she doesn’t often try to hope. She’s used to hiding. It’s her fatal flaw—that outdated coping mechanism that she’ll need to abandon to live her new life.

I loved how welcoming the family was. Though the heroine had doubts about how wanted she was in her new home, they were kind and hospitable. I rooted for Arabella to overcome her past fears and see that her future didn’t have to be defined by shadowy corners and a downcast gaze.

The hero is also used to living outside the limelight. He’s a navy man, so he’s used to hiding his grief. He still grieves the loss of his brother and he’s uncertain what his life should be now that he’s no longer part of the navy. I rooted for him to find his new purpose and to find love.

Sarah had me laughing out loud several times as I read this novel. Her sense of humor, along with her prose and characterization, are her trademark.

Highly recommended!

I love this series and this was a good addition to it. It may not be the most riveting of the series but I like the characters so much that I can disregard any weak story points.

Loving Lieutenant Lancaster by Sarah M. Eden is a lovely story. It comes alive with descriptive prose as well as the twists and turns. The main characters different positions in society enhance the story, yet the depth of the characters comes through. Highly recommended.

I love the Lancaster family, and the Jonquil family. I am so happy to be able to read the next book in the series. Sarah M. Eden has a wonderful way with words. I love that she brings two of my favorite families together in this book. Her descriptions make the characters come to life. I love that this book is written as a clean romance. I am able to share her writing with my teenage daughters.

Read this in one sitting. It was very sweet and didn’t disappoint. I like the way that the main characters like each other before they fall in love.

I loved loved LOVED this book. This is definitely a favorite. It adds depth to the Jonquil family, and to the Lancaster family. I adored Arabella and truly understood her and Linus, especially Linus's feelings on the loss of his brother. I really hope there's more to Artemis and Charlie's story soon.

Loving Lieutenant Lancaster is the first book I have read by Sarah M. Eden. While it is part of a series reading it I did not need to have read the previous books. However saying that while I was reading I found myself writing down some of the characters names to search for their story to read at a later time. This is a clean sweet story of Linus and Arabella. Both who need to feel loved and wanted. Arabella finally learns towards the end of the book that she was cared and wanted deeply by others. I would have given it four stars but felt that the ending was anticlimactic.

What a lovely, lovely story--and funny!

Sarah Eden has such a knack for writing the depth of a character. A heartbreaking scenario is played out where the care of a little one is woefully ill-spent, her little heart all but breaking. It makes me want to show kindness at any opportunity, for you can’t know what it might mean to someone so neglected. And even when a character has been nurtured in a loving family there are still gaps and chasms of void and pain. This sounds so tragic, but there is such hope as two characters find each other and the goodness of each.

Along the way, there are laugh out loud moments. Oh, the Duke of Kielder and the Earl of Lampton! Those two crack me up. It’s definitely a clash of opposites or is it sameness.

This is all played out in such a heartwarming, sweet manner. I love this story!

Arabella gladly accepts the position of companion to the Countess at Lampton park, to get away from her demanding and often cruel aunt and uncle. Stuck living with them after the death of her parents, Arabella believes going to stay with the Jonquil family, who have been so kind to her over the years, will be a wonderful change. However, as we all discover at some point in our lives, things are not always what they seem. At least at her aunt and uncle's house she knew her place. At Lampton Park it seems she fits no where. During a house party, thrown by the Countess she is companion to, Arabella meets Linus, A Navy Lieutenant. Linus is retired and wants nothing to do with love or marriage minded women. Especially his maddening sisters, who seem determined to fibd him a wife, no matter what it takes. Therefore he cannot understand why he is so drawn to the Countess' companion. A great read!! You'll want to add ths to your list!!

so sweet and gentle, a slower paced but deep and thoughtful romance with great themes of belonging, forgiviness, charity. definitely helpful to read sarah eden's previous books about both the lancaster and jonquil families to help you appreciate all the secondary characters and understand their unwritten character. could be read alone, but so much richer having read the prequels. i adore this story! linus is such a sweetheart!

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so sweet and tender, and such a RICH story with it's many subplots and more complex themes and relationships. not a simple love story. it's a family love story. heartwarming and inspiring.

This book is extremely unique in that there are several sections of the story that broke my heart at how lonely and forsaken Arabella felt that I actually shed tears. This is something that I have experienced on a very rare occasion when reading a book. Eden’s is an author who has the remarkable ability of writing in such a profound way that you feel as if you are experiencing the loneliness and heartache Arabella feels. Linus and Charlie’s strong emotions are also of this same expert writing, Linus in losing his older brother, Evander, and trying to cope with his new position as head of his family and Charlie feeling at a lose to figure out where his specific place is in his family. There is so much emotion written into this story, that it is hard to put it into words. There is a HEA for Linus and Arabella but not before a lot of self doubt is put to rest. If you haven’t already guessed, I loved this book and would highly recommend it as a great read, just keep a tissue handy.

This book had me by the heartstrings right from the first page. Arabella Hampton is a sweet orphaned girl, raised by her uncle and his wife. They treat her with cruelty and neglect. The only highlight in her young life is a dream to live with and be part of the Jonquil family.

Many years later Arabella is invited to be Lady Jonquil's companion. Lieutenant Linus Lancaster and his family have all been invited to a house party at Lampton Park. Linus is a retired officer in the navy. His three sisters want to find him the ideal wife during this stay. He on the other hand is not looking for love or marriage.

Sarah Eden's carefully crafted characters are people you would want as friends. Arabella often went on long walks around the property. This helped her to escape and sort out her thoughts. Ms. Eden has a special way of making the scenes come to life, I felt as if I were walking along side of Arabella enjoying the gardens.

I enjoyed this book and could not put it down.

I received a copy of this book from Covenant Communications Inc, through NetGalleys. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.

I was tempted to read this historical romance because I am currently watching "Poldark" on television. Although this book is set amongst a higher class of English people I was very soon entranced by the rich historical backgrounds painted and the emotional roller coaster of Arabella's thoughts.

Throughout, I waited for something "dramatic" to happen to the main character....but it doesn't. There is misfortune of other characters and this is what brings the two main characters together filling the emptiness with love....and hope.

A gentle love story which I believe is #4 in the Lancaster Family group of books written by Sarah. While my pile of books to read dictates that I will be moving onto another author and genre, I will certainly return to read more about the Lancaster and Jonquil families. Sarah has a way of bringing wit to her characters and the situation they are placed in. Although Arabella is quietly reserved and struggling to find her place in the family she has watched from afar all her life and who have now made her a member, she has a quick keen wit that makes the reader and Linus Lancaster laugh.

An easy to read book which makes the heart sing as only new love can. Thankyou #NetGalley and best wishes to Sarah M Eden. #lovingLieutenantLancaster

I'd call the tone of this book sedate. Both Arabella and Lt Linus Lancaster have lost loved ones and are still coming to terms with that loss years later, their pain causing some tear-jerking moments. Arabella comes out of her shell with her sense of ironic humor surprising those who've known her the longest.
The descriptions of the house party center more on the conversations; parlor games do not take center stage. There are no sexual exploits.

This was as boring as watching wallpaper peel. DNF after dozing off repeatedly by 30% into this book with absolutely no one interesting with absolutely nothing extraordinary happening.

Lt. Lancaster had been in the Navy a long time. Arabella Hampton parents died when she was young and her aunt and uncle took over her care. But they did not want to, they proceeded to make her existence a misery. When she was asked by the Dowager to come and be her companion she jumped at it as did her aunt and uncle. This is a first-time author for me and I did enjoy the story. Arabella had seen the compassion and kindness that Linus treated others with. There were a few twists to this tale but it kept it interesting and fun. The banter between Linus and Arabella was very good. It was well written and moved smoothly. , The characters were well developed and very lifelike. Even the secondary characters were interesting and some were fun. It was just a good story all around and I was lucky to be able to read it and recommend it.

I received this ARC from Net Galley and voluntarily reviewed it.

Loving Lieutenant Lancaster is book four from Sarah M Eden's series, The Lancaster Family. I really enjoyed this book. I recommend it and give it four and a half stars.

This is a straightforward (clean) romance. Not much happens, except the two protagonists, each with a total lack of self-esteem, finally get over their self-doubt and see what's been right under their noses since the beginning of the book. Not terribly exciting, but it's sweet. It's #4 in a series, but can easily be read as a standalone.