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Maximum Security is a romantic suspense series title that’s unusually grim and graphic, which makes it a good choice for anyone believing a series romance can’t be as hard-hitting as a single title. It’s also a good bet for those who can’t get enough of serial killer stories. Which also means this is a book…
A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of reading Nicole Burnham’s debut novel, Going to the Castle, and was pleasantly swept away into a modern day fairy tale. Since then I’ve felt that she was one of those great undiscovered treasures, and was excited to see her spreading her wings outside her Silhouette…
Over the Edge is a book I left sitting in the TBR pile for a while after I bought it, having been burned by a few too many recent weak Harlequin Blazes. I wish I’d picked it up sooner. An excellent combination of strong character, plot, and sensuality, it’s definitely one of the best in…
French Twist is precisely the type of story I usually love – a foreign caper involving museums, priceless artifacts, and a reformed (or is he?) thief hero. While it’s an entertaining enough read, it’s not all that it could have been. Nick Jarrett was once a master thief known only as the Scorpion, until he…
I hadn’t read a Harlequin Temptation in a long time, but when I saw this one was by Jane Sullivan, I bought it since I enjoyed the two other books she has written for the line, as well as the single title contemporaries she writes as Jane Graves. This was the first book I read…
I just love a smart-mouthed heroine who can bring uncharacteristic smiles to the lips of a stony-faced hero, and that is one of the primary draws of Jane Sullivan’s Tall, Dark and Texan. The flip side, of course, is that said heroine is also likely to actually deserve the duct-tape gag the hero considers applying…
Some Kind of Wonderful is a generic, mediocre title for an equally generic book. The one-size-fits-all-cover features a man and woman on the beach at sunset, and it only adds to the generic feel (especially since the hero and heroine don’t ever walk on the beach together at sunset in this book). You would never…
Rarely have I seen a heroine torture a hero as much as Aline tortures McKenna in Again the Magic. Don’t get me wrong. I loved their story, but I felt sorry for the hero, and had I been McKenna, I’d have thought twice about quickly forgiving Aline. It’s a mark of his character that he…
Who needs thigh-expanding hot chocolate when one can read My Life As A Snow Bunny? It’s a warm, feel-good book with just enough sweetness (minus the calories) to liven up a dreary winter day. Written in a chatty, first person style, the story is told by Jo Vincent, a pretty, playful, often sarcastic boy-crazy sixteen…
I have many of Rachel Lee’s old Silhouette romances, but haven’t read any of her recent work and had no idea what I was getting into with Something Deadly. Although it’s technically categorized as romantic suspense, this is a spine-chilling, page-turning ghost story that I read in one sitting. The tropical island of San Martin…
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