Enter the emotional, suspenseful Regency world of USA Today bestselling author Jacki Delecki’s Code Breakers spy series. Undaunted by danger or scandal, these intrepid lords and ladies discover true love as they risk it all to save England from Napoleon’s treacherous designs. Duty before desire…honor before truth. Miss Abigail Lyon wants an education, not a husband. A respectable match would … husband. A respectable match would redeem her family’s besmirched reputation from her sister’s scandalous elopement, although surely none of the ton’s eligible bachelors count curiosity as a desirable trait in a wife. Abbie finds herself confronting an offer that may be too good to be true.
Jack Bonnington is a rake turned spy, recruited by the Crown to ferret out a traitor. To provide a cover for his clandestine mission, he must pursue the very brilliant and beautiful Miss Abigail. The ruse takes a dangerous turn when they discover their secret is at risk of being exposed. Is the heightened passion a pretense or a prelude to something more dangerous? Can a man bound by honor to his country and a woman ensnared by duty to her family accomplish an impossible mission that gives them the freedom to love and live as they choose?
THE CODE BREAKERS SERIES
Men and women from the class of privilege and rank risk their lives to defend England against the treacherous designs of Napoleon. They confront disaster, scandal, and passion as they pursue their code of honor and love. Read the entire series or enjoy as standalone reads in this best-selling Regency romantic fiction series from USA Today bestselling author Jacki Delecki.
A Code of Love
A Christmas Code
A Code of the Heart
A Cantata of Love
A Wedding Code
A Code of Honor
A Holiday Code for Love
A May Day Code for Love
more
This was the first Code Breakers book I’ve read by Jacki Delecki. Ms. Delecki’s writing style is excellent. The story flows. Her characters are easily visualized. I really enjoyed the intrigue! Now I need to read the whole series.
I received this book through NetGalley during a giveaway. These are my opinions voluntarily given.
Fun romance with diverting characters. Lady Eliza steals Lord Nash’s horse to escape her kidnappers. Nash rescues her and falls for her.
Miss Abigail Lyon wants an education, not a husband. She loves languages & maths when she’s approached by Henrietta Harcourt to translate a poem all her dreams come true & she is thrilled to become a code breaker. Jack Bonnington is a rake turned spy, recruited by the Crown to ferret out a traitor. Jack & Abbie clash each time they meet but their attraction to each other also sizzles.
This is the sixth book in the series & whilst it could be read on its own, I’d recommend reading the series in order to fully appreciate it. I loved Jack & Abbie, he’s so honourable & looks after his siblings & the family’s estate. Abbie is feisty, intelligent & together they are like two halves of a coin. The pace is very good & I was drawn in from the start, I think this is my favourite of the series. I loved how Jack fell & fell hard
My honest review is for a special copy I voluntarily read
Living under the iron fist of her uncompromising father, Abigail Lyon has little opportunity to explore the world of science, language or arithmetic. Yet she thirsts for knowledge like a swallow thirsts for water in the desert. Abby doesn’t know that her tendencies have been observed by her friends who are only too willing to help her explore her hidden talents. Jack was forced by circumstances to abandon his chosen path but finds that he too is being drawn in by his peers who acknowledge his strengths. Having spent much time antagonising one another, Abby and Jack are now headed on a parallel path with a common goal – to catch a traitor. As much as Jack and Abby irritate one another, they are also drawn to one another at a subliminal level, catching them both by surprise. The novel is generally well written and held my interest all the way through. There is some suspense, adventure and certainly romance. The hero seems to be a bit of an ass, but is, in fact, a generous and warm-hearted man who loves and cares for his family. Abby’s wings have been clipped, and yet she retains a strong will and determination to break through the barriers imposed on her. She has a delightful light-hearted side to her nature and she wins the hearts of those who meet her, including Jack. The book is a standalone and comes to a highly satisfactory conclusion. I received this book for free from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily post this review. This is my honest review.
Good read. As with other books in series, characters tend to fall in love a little too quickly. Prefer a little more anticipation. I received this book for free from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily post this review. This is my honest review.
This was my first book in the series but it does stand alone. Regency era story with a likable heroine who is less interested in “typical” pursuits and way more interested in learning things they didn’t expect young women to know anything about. The hero believed she was a typical young lady and when they have to work together, she “enlightens” him. They work well as a team and only together can they solve the problem. Fun, fast read with two people who think they know each other until they realize they have so much to learn. (I voluntarily reviewed an ARC).
This was a new author for me, and I have to say that I really enjoyed the book. The story was well-written and complex, full of drama, suspense, mystery with wonderful romance. I was drawn into the story right from the start, and I really got a kick out of Jack’s younger brothers. I would have loved to have seen them again later in the book. The characters were so interesting. The story very quickly became intense and suspenseful, and it held my interest right up until the end. I plan on reading more from this author. Very well done!
There is no doubt that Delecki can write an engaging romantic suspense. Set during the Napoleonic War, a group of English men and women search for spies aiding France. Codes and traitors keep the English network busy, but romance is still part of the plot. Even though this is a standalone, I think I would have enjoyed this book even more if I’d read the books in the series in order first.
I’ve read the first 3 books in the Code Breakers series and somehow missed numbers 4/5! Loved the story of Abbie and Jack! She’s trying to hard to be proper and appear ladylike as her mother and father had browbeat her into acting. Jack was lovable from the first scene when he was interacting with his brothers and his defense of his sister against even her own husband! Abbie was able to recognize that Jack would treat her as his equal in a relationship even after their rocky beginning. Since I missed the 4th and 5th book, I was a little confused at the beginning with the use of Amelia and Abbie for names, but eventually lost the confusion. Thank you for the advanced readers copy. I’ll have to go back and get books 4 and 5 now!
A wonderful addition to a brilliant series
This is a wonderfully written addition to a brilliant series. The plot is full of mystery and emotion. The characters are amazingly crafted, with the strength and determination to overcome their enemies and achieve their happiness. This is a great book that will suit anybody who loves steamy historical romances, that have a plenty of suspense.
A Code of Honor is a fun historical romance with spies taking place during the Napoleonic wars in England. This is part of a series, and while I enjoyed it as a stand-alone, I suspect readers who had read the previous books would enjoy it more as they would have more background on the story and characters.
Reader discretion advised: there is a graphic sex scene towards the end of the book along with some close encounters.
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He’s the one who gets schooled.
Oppressed by her tyrannical parents, Miss Abigail Lyon rarely reveals her passion for higher learning. Sadly, of the few times she spoke her mind, she was berated by the one man for whom she has ever had feelings.
Overwhelmed by duties that should not have been his, Jack Bonnington took on the persona of a rake. He also took delight in annoying a certain miss who was foolish enough to believe in higher education for women.
What happens too Abbie and Jack is the substance of A Code of Honor by Jacki Delecki.
Although very well written, I struggled to keep track of all the characters in this entertaining and absorbing novel. I should have gone back and read the five previous novels. Regardless, I was able to get in sync and I really enjoyed this book. The characters are rich and vibrant and the story is not only romantic and humorous, it also has an element of mystery with a dangerous edge. All in all, I enjoyed this book.
Content alert: There is some passionate kissing, some swearing (g*d, d*mn, h*ll) and one moderately descriptive sexual scene.
I received this book for free from eBook Discovery. I voluntarily post this review. This is my honest review.
I loved that Abbie is smart and talented in defiance of convention. It was almost painful for me to watch how she made herself ‘smaller’ in order to be what society demanded she should be. And I wanted to kick Jack every time he agreed. I liked Jack, I’m just not sure why. He spent most of the book being an overbearing oaf, certain that no one knew how to manage their lives without his input. And yet there was still something endearing about him that made me forgive even his worst alpha-hole behavior. One thing that bothered me about this book was our hero’s morphing name. I realize that ‘Jack’ is frequently a diminutive form for ‘John’. (Though why you need a short form for ‘John’ completely escapes my logic.) I just wish we could have stuck with one or the other through the course of the book. The first couple of times he’s referred to as Jack and John, I was trying to find the second character before I realized the author meant our hero each time. And it bugged me a little that I don’t even remember seeing any explanation for why Jack/John is called by both.
I received a complimentary copy of this book through Hidden Gems Books.
This is book 6 of the Code Breaker Series and although it is not my favourite, it was still a book you will one to read. If you have read any of the others you will recognize a lot of characters from them but it is still a book you can read as a stand alone. It has suspense, intrigue, mystery, adventure and romance. All the things you want in a spy story. It is not long and complicated that it losses you in the plot but long enough to keep you turning the page wanting to know what is going to happen next. The heroine Lady Abigail is a strong, intelligent women whose parents want to keep her quite and biddable to find a husband and the hero is Jack Bonnington, a bit of a hot head but strong and willing to do anything to keep his love safe. Both are new to spying and it is interesting to watch them as they learn their new trade and to trust each other. Well worth reading the whole series and I am looking forward to any future stories. I received this book as an ARC.
Another great installment in the Code Breakers series!! This one is about Jack who is recruited to oversee an arsenal and Abigail, a bluestocking in the sense of her great talents in language and mathematics, who is hired as a code breaker. They had known each other before, but are now put together to work on uncovering a plot and keeping England safe.
The adventure begins with a lot of back and forth between the two on differing opinions and finally coming to have feelings for each other. Abbie feels a responsibility to marry well to help put her family back in the good graces of society after her sister’s scandalous elopement. But as emotions heat up and Abbie gets into danger, Jack has to save her. Will he find her in time and be able to expose a traitor in their mists?
A page turning adventure that will have you holding your breath to see what happens!!
A Code of Honor is the first book by Jackie Delecki that I have read. I really enjoyed reading this one and look forward to reading the rest of the series. The blurb says it all. I will just add that if you like spy stories with some romance, this will be the book for you. Not too steamy, there is slight swearing though. All in all, a great read.
This rebel miss breaks more than one code
Jackie Dekecki writes a pretty good Regency-era romance. She has one here, with A Code of Honor, in which brilliant non-conformist young Abbie of the upper crust would rather dabble in code-breaking for the War Office than heed her parents wishes that she marry as far above their station as she can reach. Making the mistake of confiding her wish to pursue mathematics to an old family friend, Jack Bonnington, she manages to provoke the typically chauvinistic attitudes of the time. She also manages to baffle, irritate, and completely captivate him. It’s a good story, with lots of suspense, wit, and romantic tensions bubbling below the surface. I like every one of the female characters (except Abbie’s mother, whom we are meant to dislike) but I can’t say much good about Jack, the hero. He’s just TOO much – overbearing, over-protective, over-reacting, and so mentally fooled by lust – just a little over the top, IMHO. Abbie doesn’t seem to mind in the end. That it all comes down to Rule, Brittania and HEA is no surprise. That it is well-plotted and action filled, as well historically on point (the only ‘oops’ was Jack using the word “:sexy” – so 20th century!) is a bonus. That it works as a standalone is a tribute to Ms. Delecki’s talent for spinning a fine yarn. My thanks inks to the author for the ARC, and this has been a voluntary, independent, and uncompensated review.
Wonderful Recency romance with suspense and intrigue. The author weaves a fantastic journey for a young woman with a mathematical mind. Abbie has known Amelia and her family most of her life. Daughters has a duty to make good matches so to enlarge their families estate as well as coffers. Jack and Abbie have different views but he’s been selected to help the British stop Napoleon. I love reading about how intelligent women helped forge their own paths yet help a cause. There is also humor written in this story. I received a complementary copy of this book and chose to write a review. I look forward to reading future books by this author.
Absolutely Fantastic book! I loved the characters, everything about this book grabs you and doesn’t let go. I absolutely recommend reading this book, you won’t regret it.