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When Allie Parker’s best friend dies in an explosion aboard a boat, she’s sure there has been foul play. The police don’t seem to take the case seriously, so Allie boards a boat owned by the same company and looks for her own answers. How could she know that the boat is about to set…
Hometown Girl poses a question to the reader: Be ye an oil man, or be ye a tree hugger? How you answer may influence your evaluation of Hometown Girl, a book that takes on a controversial environmental issue, then offers a silly resolution to this serious and topical conflict. Ah, conflict. Every story’s gotta have…
Stephen Wright, Viscount of Endicott, is appalled when he learns that his half-brother George has compromised the reputation of an innocent woman of good family. To win a bet, George kidnapped Miss Diana Somerville, not letting her go home until the next day. George has disappeared to the Continent, leaving behind a scandal that Stephen,…
If you like Jayne Ann Krentz’s Amanda Quick books, I hope you share a similar affection for Lavinia Lake and Tobias March, the hero and heroine of Slightly Shady, because if you don’t, you’re clearly out of luck. With this book, the author is obviously taking a new direction, in which Lavinia and Tobias are…
Imagine this: a young woman in her purple taffeta dress, wearing a small diamond engagement ring is standing on her front porch waiting for her fiancé to take her to the Fall Formal. Instead, another young man approaches and hands her a letter from her little sister and her fiancé, telling her they’re in love…
The Linda Howard novels that I reread most frequently are Dream Man, After the Night, and the often reviled Shades of Twilight. Recently I added Mr. Perfect and Open Season to the list. The earlier mid-nineties books are all dark and angsty while the newer efforts combine dark suspense with a touch of humor (sometimes…
The historical romances of Mary Jo Putney are usually peopled with eminently civilized and sensible characters, who know that passion is destructive if it is not governed by reason, friendship, and respect. They often find themselves in exotic locales and impossible situations, but love – and a stiff upper lip – always prevails. The Bartered…
Tracy Cozzens’ latest release kicks off a new series called American Heiresses, which is about four sisters looking for husbands in the late 19th Century. Unfortunately, it could hardly have gotten off to a worse start. Flight Of Fancy features a plot driven entirely by inconsistency and misunderstanding, peopled by not-particularly-likable characters, and set against…
The cover of The House In Thornton Wood features a young woman enveloped in a cloak and hood in the foreground of a dark and brooding landscape complete with a shadowy mansion. Let’s read the blurb on the back cover, hmm, we have a governess, an isolated house, a mysterious woods, gypsies, mystery, and a…
Finding the perfect beach book can be a real challenge. After all, since the risk of finding yourself on the beach or at the pool with nothing that catches your attention is just too horrible to contemplate, you probably tuck four or five books into your bag. With the release of Face the Fire, Nora…
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