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Comfort and Joy is a Christmas offering from Zebra that failed to put me in the holiday spirit. Charles Rycroft is a member of the Boston creme de la creme. He’s inherited a publishing business, and as a hobby he collects fine art. One day, after making a particularly important art purchase, he is mugged…
Every time I pick up a new book, I’m hoping it’s going to be the best book I’ve ever read. Every time I pick up a new book, I’m hoping it’s not going to be the worst book I’ve ever read. Most of the books I read fall somewhere in between these two extremes, and…
Paige Hart and Ross Bennett are attorneys fighting opposite sides of a divorce case. Paige is actually a tax attorney – she’s representing her cousin as a favor – but Ross is actually a divorce lawyer who specializes in divorce. Paige hates divorce lawyers; she thinks they prey off people’s misery. The fact that Ross…
Rachel Lee’s latest novel Under Suspicion is mislabeled as romance. In truth, it is an extremely suspenseful mystery accompanied by a flat, boring romance, which is acted out by a flat and boring hero and heroine. Luckily the secondary characters are all that the leading couple are not – interesting, amusing, and colorful – which…
On the surface, Abducted Heiress seems like a traditional period romance involving familiar elements such as warring nobles, an impregnable castle, and a guardian-ward relationship that spirals into passion. Thanks to a refreshing supernatural angle, the tale stands out. Too bad the same cannot be said for the hero. The legend of Molly Gordon’s vast…
Few authors, in any genre, can match Nora Roberts’ ability to create characters that instantly leap off the page. In a few quick scenes the personality and identity of each is made clear. Since she has this incredible ability, Ms. Roberts rarely writes a hero or heroine who doesn’t come alive for me. Heaven and…
Sir Richard has a problem. Everything about Isabel’s too blatant desire for him had been wrong – wrong in God’s eyes the world’s. She had been betrothed to his brother; therefore, she was his sister by marriage, her attraction for him both incestuous and adulterous. She had become a stone thrown against his honor and…
Janice Sims’ latest novel, This Time Forever, combines an interesting murder mystery and great characters, and a well-drawn small-town setting in a very believable way. However, the lack of any substantial obstacle to true love’s supposedly rough course made me feel as if these characters were being cheated out of the truly well-built relationship obviously…
With French Leave, Sheri Cobb South wins, places and shows. She makes the hat trick, achieves the trifecta, threepeats. This book brings her Weaver trilogy to a delightful close, and I was charmed from the very first word. Lord Waverly (the villain in The Weaver Takes A Wife) has fallen on hard times. His debts…
I’m starting to think they’ll let just about anyone publish a suspense novel these days. Apparently some readers must be gobbling them up like candy. I thought I’d read this one because it sounded exciting. World War II! British Intelligence and American OSS! Pilfered Nazi Gold! Unfortunately, this was nowhere near as interesting as it…
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