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There’s a lot to be said for My Lord Jack, a romance that’s well-written and features characters who are far removed from the usual romantic heroes and heroines. I was disappointed when these original and interesting characters started going through the motions of a very routine plot. Claudia Valemont was the kept mistress of a…
Barbara Miller’s The Pretender is the story of a young woman who has a lot on her plate. In the course of the story she must find her beautiful sister a husband, contend with an evil relative who lives to cause trouble, and will meet a gallant man with a painful past. I’ve read stories…
Stella St. Vallier has come home to try and save her family’s sugar cane plantation, Shadow Oaks. Still in mourning for her parents, who were killed in a freak car accident, Stella isn’t sure she has what it takes to save the family legacy. Things go from bad to worse when she catches a local…
Dark of the Night by Dee Davis works as a satisfyingly engaging mystery/thriller but sadly, despite the gratuitous number of graphic sex scenes, remains a rather tepid romance. Riley O’Brien is the daughter of Senator Carter O’Brien, a Clinton-esque presidential candidate from Atlanta. Riley’s mother and sister died tragically almost twenty years earlier, and so…
When she’s good, she’s very good. And in this, the last entry in her Eclipse Bay trilogy, Jayne Ann Krentz shows once again that when she’s cooking, there are few to match her knack for dialogue, her skill in creating likable characters, and her ability to deliver a mystery that may be on the light…
Have you heard the one about the big, bad lord of the castle whose name strikes fear in the heart of every man, woman or child that hears it, and has his servants avoiding him like the plague? That is, of course, until the lovely and feisty heroine shows up and realizes he’s nothing more…
What happened? I always look forward to Justine Davis’s series romances and was eagerly anticipating this one. She is one of the authors whose entire series catalog I have glommed. Her Trinity Street West mini-series is one that I keep in my conversion kit. Several of her single titles, including Lord of the Storm, are…
MacKenzie Taylor’s first single title, My One And Only has it all: love, chemistry, suspense, and a great cast. Despite a slight petering out at the end, this is definitely an exciting debut. Abigail Lee has worked for Harrison Montgomery for ten years, ever since he took her in off the street and gave her…
I don’t read a lot of suspense novels. I like books that are driven by characters, while most suspense is driven by plot. Hush by Anne Frasier is not a romance; it’s straight suspense. Still, it features characters who are more interesting and compelling than those in many of the romances I’ve read lately. And…
I have read several traditional Regency Romances by June Calvin and for the most part, I have enjoyed them very much. She has been missing in action for a time, and when I heard that she had a new book out, I asked for it. I read A Lord for Olivia, and closed it feeling…
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