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Camilla is a royal princess of Cordina, a fictional Mediterranean principality, and she’s on the verge of a breakdown after a charity function in Washington, D.C. where she was once again mobbed by the paparazzi. Deciding enough is enough Camilla plans to run away and try life as an ordinary person for a few weeks….
A Second-Chance Proposal has familiar themes. The hero is a cowboy who has been accused of a crime he didn’t commit. He was about the marry the love of his life, but he left her at the altar. Now he’s back to prove his innocence and see if he can win back the heroine. He’s…
It’s a good thing Brenda Joyce keeps telling us just how smart heroine Francesca Cahill is, because otherwise the reader might have good cause to wonder. For instance, in Deadly Pleasure, the second in Joyce’s Francesca Cahill series, our heroine keeps critical information from the police, gets into the middle of a serious marital disagreement…
Sarah Hornsby is more than happy with her life as a widow. Her contentment is not surprising since she’s finally free of an unhappy marriage and has come into her own as the proprietor of a store selling crafts made by the women of Clear Creek, Texas. The last thing she wants is to ever…
Just so you know, I was a reader of the Robb books from the moment Naked in Death hit the shelves. I was a fan before most people even knew she was Nora Roberts. Like all the other fans, I eagerly wait for each installment, buy it the moment I see it, and generally read…
I’m beginning to think Tara Taylor Quinn is a find. I very much enjoyed her first single title for Harlequin, last year’s Sheltered in His Arms. It was the first book of hers I’d read, and I went on red alert for her other titles. I’m happy to say that the next one I read,…
Heart of a Lion is a throwback of a romance, an old-fashioned book with flowery narration and a larger than life hero and heroine. Although the first half of the book is almost fatally slow, the pace picks up in the second half and brings the book to a satisfying climax. Isabeau de Lyon is…
According to the author biography provided, Irish Rogue is Candace McCarthy’s eighteenth book. This is a fact that astonished me. The uneven pacing and stilted dialogue would make me guess that this was a first novel, if pressed, and one that could have used the efforts of an honest critique group and an editor. Conor…
I happily devoured Lord of Ice in one gulp. Only after I had turned the last page did I realize that it made a rather unsatisfying meal. Damien Knight, earl of Winterley, was a war hero on the Peninsula. Now that Napoleon is imprisoned on Elba Damien is experiencing what we recognize as post traumatic…
A bad cover and a terrible title can often conceal a wonderful romance. In the case of Fire Beneath The Ice a good title and a beautiful cover conceal a very clumsy book. The premise is intriguing and one we don’t often see in a romance – the first few months after a marriage. But…
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