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Emily Dugan arrives in Los Angeles to visit her grandmother with her life in shambles. She’s been laid off from her job as part of a massive downsizing at her company. Just before she boarded the plane, her live-in boyfriend broke up with her and told her he’d have her belongings put into storage while…
I had a wonderful time reading Widow in Scarlet. The interaction between Lucy and Nicholas was marvelous. They discuss, they plan, they listen to each other. Even so, the plot requires too much suspension of belief for the time period to totally succeed; there’s a definite Cinderella air to the plot that is at times…
A 5th Avenue Christmas didn’t work for me. At all. Though the premise is interesting, the actual execution falls short. Part of the problem is that the book itself is short, but it’s also crippled by characters who would be annoying in a book of any length. Meryl Carrington is the youngest daughter of a…
I love visiting Eve and Roarke, as I always feel like I’m hanging out with old friends. All the wonderful aspects that go into their stories are present here. Samantha Gannon, granddaughter of Max and Laine (from the first part of Remember When), is a published author and has been on tour promoting her new…
I’d recommend buying this volume based on the first story alone. Nora Roberts aptly demonstrates why she is at the top of the bestseller lists. I loved Laine and Max, and I was sorry to see their story end even though I knew Eve and Roarke were next in line. Laine Tavish has a successful…
A casual reader might pick up A Catch of Consequence, read the back, and assume it was a romance. This would be an inaccurate assumption; although it has some romantic subplots, this book is very much women’s fiction. It’s the type of story that chronicles the life of a strong woman, centering mostly on her,…
The Kissing Blades moved along so quickly that it ended before I was ready for it to be over. Another 25 pages for more character development and Jessica Hall’s latest would’ve landed on my keeper shelf. As enjoyable as it was, though, the main characters get the short end of the stick in a story…
With a title like Changing The Rules, one might expect a book that challenges expectations, chafes against convention, or presents a new view on an old romantic problem. Unfortunately, this book doesn’t deliver on that promise, and the essential romantic conflict is never seriously in doubt either. Niqui Stanhope’s writing is very good and her…
Dancing in the Dark is your basic “C” book. There’s nothing truly objectionable here, but nothing truly stellar either. If you read romantic suspense, you’ve doubtless read similar books before. It’s been two years since Sara Martin’s husband and son died in an auto accident, but she still can’t bring herself to take off her…
I’ve been waiting for a good fusion of romance and urban fantasy, and Melanie Jackson’s Traveler provides just that. It’s a love story set in an inner-city Detroit that has become infested with dark magic. The world that Jackson created resembles our own, except that it was once populated by all manner of magical beings….
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