Miss Amelia's List by Mercedes Lackey

The seventeenth novel in the magical alternate history Elemental Masters series follows Amelia Stonehold and Serena Meleva as they navigate property acquisition, marriage proposals, and other ancient horrors in Regency England, but with the help of elemental magic

The year is 1815, and an American, Miss Amelia Stonehold, has arrived in the Devon town of Axminster, accompanied by her "cousin" Serena Meleva. She’s brought with her a list to tick off: find a property, investigate the neighbors, bargain for and purchase the property, staff the property and...possibly...find a husband.

But Amelia soon finds herself contending with some decidedly off-list trouble, including the Honorable Captain Harold Roughtower, whose eyes are fixed on her fortune. Little does Amelia know that his plans for her wealth extend far beyond refurbishing his own crumbing estate — they include the hidden Roman temple of Glykon, where something very old, very angry, and very dangerous still lurks. But Roughtower isn’t prepared to reckon with the fact that neither Amelia nor Serena are pushovers. And he certainly isn’t ready for the revelation that he has an Earth Master and a Fire Mage on his hands — or that one of them is a shapeshifter.

I am and always have been a HUGE fan of Mercedes Lackey's elemental masters series so upon release I immediately cracked it open.  This one felt different from her other novels in the series however.  It felt like a regency, Jane Austin type novel with the elemental twist of course.  I did enjoy and would recommend. 

The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi

Third book in the series follows Radha.  She is 32 and living in Paris with her husband and 2 daughters, working as a perfumiest.  She has long since pushed down the feelings of leaving the baby boy she gave birth to a lifetime ago but once a year on his birth day, she cannot.  Her work consumes her and she finds great joy in the gift of scent and creating them for clients and she is very good at it.  But her husband does not understand her need to work and her oldest daughter is the very spitting image of her temperament when Radha was younger too, which Radha doesn't understand as she has given her daughters a life so very different from her upbringing.  Tasked with her first major project, she travels to India for inspiration and to make her stand out as a perfumiest.  However when she is there something will happen that will change her life forever - her past will finally meet her straight in the eye.

Had to finish this trilogy.  And while I am glad I did and have gained the insight of Radha from a grown up perspective, I can't say that I was blown away with this last novel.  I might have enjoyed her second one more.  I don't regret reading this however as I enjoyed revisiting characters and watching them in the grown state.