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The Clachan Fala, commonly referred to as the Blood Stone, is at the root of decades of feuding, raiding and death. This legendary stone is rumored to bestow powers of invincibility in battle upon its owner and began a bloody battle between the Graham and Maxwell families. The English Grahams and Scottish Maxwells have been…
One of my favorite old movies is the Frank Capra classic It Happened One Night, in which a desperate heiress flees an unappealing future and ends up with an attractive rogue as her traveling companion. The Runaway Heiress tells a very similar story, and for the most part succeeds. I smiled a lot as I…
“On April 5, 1768, Johann Friedrich Struensee was appointed Royal Physician to King Christian VII of Denmark, and four years later was executed.” I found myself fascinated by the above quote at the beginning of The Royal Physician’s Visit – struggles for power can make for delicious reading. Booklist magazine, a veritable librarian’s bible, recently…
Jenna Mindel’s latest release, Labor Of Love reads like a vaguely pleasant combination of Regency setting and faddish baby-book plot. It’s marred by a glaring hole in its premise * and a heroine whose motivations are questionable. As these flaws become apparent early on, credibility and sympathy suffer as a result. Olivia Lawton, Lady Beresford,…
When this book was first assigned to me to review, I was excited. At four-thirty this morning when I finished reading it, however, I knew that the review process was not going to be as easy as I supposed. How to convey the brilliant complexity of the story, the unexpected revelations, the thought-provoking intricacies, without…
When I have to make a conscious effort to keep reading a book, I can tell it’s not working for me, and that’s what happened here. The Tycoon’s Temptation is a strictly-by-the-numbers exercise in series romance, with a hollow theme at its core: can a lowly working-class girl teach an obscenely wealthy man that there…
Are you weary of all those “perfect” heroines – the ones with intelligence, common sense, compassion, and maturity? Are sick of all those heroic heroes that possess intellect, honor, and integrity? And how about all those plots that always seem to be credible, and, even more irritatingly, make sense? If so, have I got the…
This was a difficult review to write because I want so much to express my respect and admiration for this author’s body of work, but I’m confined to a review of perhaps her weakest book in a decade. Kathleen Gilles Seidel is one of my two or three favorite romance writers, a name that I…
Sometimes it just all comes down to taste. If you love Gypsy stories with a healthy dose of melodrama, then this is the book for you. And if you don’t? Well, you may be stuck plodding through the book as I did, with a curious sense of detachment. Simon, Earl of St. Albans, is surprised…
Luscious Corinna Huntington is the youngest and prettiest of all the ladies at Queen Elizabeth’s court. Elizabeth is a great statesman, a hardened ruler with nerves of steel – but she is also an embittered, lonely woman. Proud Elizabeth knows all about lying men. As a result, the queen is strict and watchful, always keeping…
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