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  • The Rake’s Fiancée

    In The Rake’s Fiancée we have the story of a second chance at love. While the heroine’s fortunes have declined since her last meeting with the hero, his social standing is now higher than it was, and a chance meeting on a cold night is what sets the story in motion. Believing him to be…

  • A Light on the Veranda

    The heroine of A Light on the Veranda is a busy girl – she moves from New York to Mississippi, switches careers, starts to fall in love, deals with her horrid mother and ex-fiancé, and must face the tragic events in the life of her long-dead namesake. While the paranormal aspects in this book, which…

  • Moving Target

    As a long-time fan of Elizabeth Lowell, I’ve been looking forward to her latest novel Moving Target, which merges her medieval Disputed Lands trilogy with her more recent contemporary suspense work. Somehow she manages to include guest appearances by three Donovans and tie in her Blackthorn family of characters from her contemporary Western novels. If…

  • The Mackenzies: Zach

    Several years ago, I read the debut Mackenzie book. Back then, romance series didn’t seem to be quite as plentiful as they are now, and I was hoping this would be a new one for me to enjoy. While I didn’t think it was horrible, I definitely wasn’t interested in reading the rest of the…

  • The Sheik

    The Sheik was an instant best seller when it was first published in 1921, and it gave Rudolph Valentino his best known movie role. It also spawned a multitude of imitators – sheik books are being published even now – and it was the grandmother of all the sweet/savage romance novels where a feisty, proud…

  • Alicia’s Song

    Alicia James and her two sisters are singing in a graveyard to honor a recently deceased woman (who was believed to be a witch) when they are separated by an extremely thick fog. While making her way through the fog, Alicia realizes that she isn’t in the Wyoming cemetery anymore, and this is confirmed when…

  • A Royal Vow by Tamara Sneed

    Davis Beriyia is the crown prince of a small island nation called Juhatu. So what is he doing working as a handyman in Abbie Barnes’ apartment complex in Los Angeles? Davis, for once, wanted to throw off the yoke of his royal responsibilities and enjoy some freedom before settling down to a loveless marriage with…

  • A Double-Edged Blade

    I spent a few enjoyable hours with A Double-Edged Blade, but in the end, it was neither excellent nor horrible. I felt a distinct lack of connection with the characters, and it was almost like watching an event from the highest stadium seat, where it doesn’t have much impact. When Faith Worthington was a little…

  • Wyoming Wildflower

    Wyoming Wildflower is Pam Crooks’s debut novel. She shows promise, and this is a good first effort. But it is ultimately a rather uneven read. Ten years after leaving home to become educated as a lady in Boston, Sonnie Mancuso returns to her father’s ranch. He has had a heart attack, and she hopes both…

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