Bal Khabra

1 month ago | entertainment-mag.com | Adriana Herrera |Julian Winters |Bal Khabra

The heroine of A TROPICAL REBEL GETS THE DUKE (Canary Street, 424 pp., paperback, $18.99), Doctora Aurora Montalban, was neglected as a child and later disdained by male peers. Now that she’s running an illegal women’s clinic in Belle Époque Paris, Aurora’s long-established defenses are the emotional equivalent of a portcullis with a moat and battlements.