Revenge of the Barbary Ghost boasts an intriguing premise, but I found the narrative style too light for my tastes.

After Lady Anne's abrupt departure from Yorkshire, she decides to visit her friend Pamela in Cornwall. Confused over feelings for Darkefell (he is dark and a little broody, but certainly no Heathcliff), she quickly becomes involved in another mystery after seeing the "Barbary Ghost" and a band of smugglers on the beach below Cliff House.

Oh, dear. The determined Darkefell discovers where she has gone and plans to again attempt to persuade Anne to marry him. He immediately wants to protect her from danger and continues to spoil his pursuit of marriage by issuing commands that frustrate and anger Anne.

I rarely read romance, but the combination of mystery and suspense has made the Lady Anne Addison series a fun and enjoyable experience. Anne continues to struggle with her attraction to Darkefell and her need to be able to maintain her independence. Maybe too many kisses and explanatory sequences, but fun nevertheless.

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Mystery/Romance/Historical Fiction. 2014; April, 2019. Print length: 345 pages.

The adventure continues!

Lady Anne Addison's heartfelt confusion, her refusal of marriage to the enigmatic and attractive Marquess of Darkefell continues, peppered with the chasing down of smugglers and murderers in a crumbling manor atop the Cornish cliffs. A house with the perfect smuggler's bay at the foot of its cliffs.
I'm agog at where Anne's indecision, or maybe yes her decisiveness, will take her.
Anne flees Darkefell's attentions to join her dear friends Pamela and Marcus St. James, at their rented house on the Barbary Coast. An "effervescent brother and sister, [they have been] friends since Anne’s disastrous Season many years before."
However there's another mystery brewing! And the endings all atremble with it!
A ghostly figure rises up out of the mists just as smugglers are landing their goods and the excise men are surrounding the beach landing area. Anne is an unintentional witness to the action.
Anne suspects the apparition has a clear scientific basis. She brings her investigative powers to bear, joined as it happens, by the Marquess of Darkefell who has pursued her to Cornwall.
Murder, mystery and romance move hand in hand as Anne struggles with her feelings for Darkefell and her wish for independence, all the while investigating a murder that will once again harken back to Darkefell's past.
This tale was originally published by Donna Lea Simpson. It has been updated and republished under Simpson's pseudonym, Victoria Hamilton.

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Two weeks have passed since Lady Anne Addison left Yorkshire. She is now staying in Cornwall, at the village of St. Wyllow with her old friends, brother and sister Pamela and Marcus St. James. But all is not well and as she spends a night on the cliff she sees The Barbary Ghost and what looks like smugglers down on the beach. So Lady Anne decides to investigate. Meanwhile Lord Darkefell has come looking for her.
Although this can be read as a standalone details from the first book are mentioned, and you can also read how these characters are developing.
Again, another delightful well-written Georgian mystery, with a touch of romance. I have enjoyed reading about these characters and not just the two main ones.