The Lady is Trouble (League of Lords, #1) by Tracy Sumner

4 Stars

Fun Historical Paranormal romance

This is the first book in Tracy Sumner’s new series The League of Lords, with a whole new world for her to develop.  We meet Piper Scott, who sees Auras and can heal and Julian Alexander who is a type of psychic.  Piper’s grandfather was the man who created the League of Lords to help good combat evil, and he rescued Julian from London’s underbelly when Julian was a child.  Julian has promised her grandfather years ago when they were children to stay away from Piper, and he’s done that.  But now, since her grandfather was murdered the forces of evil are looking for Piper to use her power to heal to advance their cause.  Julian is now in charge of the League, and has been “collecting” people who’ve been persecuted because they have magic, and bringing them to the estate he has purchased.  Now, after 3 years, Piper is looking for Julian, to help him with the League, and also because she has loved him since they met as children. 

  Tracy Sumer has done a good job of building the bones of this world that surrounds 17^th century London.  She mixes in the way London would have been at that time and then adds in the people who could do magical things who come from all walks of life.  I didn’t notice any writing or grammatical errors, and Ms. Sumner does an excellent job of describing people and places.  I thoroughly enjoyed this book as a series starter.  I didn’t care for some of the interactions between Piper and Julian- they both are written more like 20^th century people.  But the book is entertaining, and I continued onto book 2. 

  I was given an ARC of the book by the author/publisher through BookSirens and this is my honest opinion.