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I don’t often have insomnia, but when I do, I look on it as an opportunity to read. Sometimes if the book is sufficiently dull, it puts me right back to sleep. This was not the case with Gallant Waif and I did something I haven’t done in a long time. I read it right…
A man is sent to retrieve a runaway lady and ends up falling in love with her, each of them unaware of the secret the other is hiding. This sets up the main conflict in Scandal in Venice, a conflict born of desperate actions and many secrets. Lady Elizabeth Everdean is in shock. She had…
While reading Susan King’s 2000 release, The Stone Maiden, I fell in love with her lyrical writing and her historical intricacy, and eagerly awaited The Swan Maiden, the next in the series. Fans won’t be disappointed – King’s trademark style and beautifully realized settings are back. However, most will find the heroine a bit difficult…
It wasn’t until I was about half way through Born to Be Wild that I realized I’d read an earlier book by this author. In fact I’d read the prequel, Wife for a Day, which focused on a relationship between a wealthy man and a woman who’s lost her job and is living out of…
Mary Lynn Baxter’s Tempting Janey is a book about second chances and second loves. It has an interesting premise and the lead characters have potential, but the author squanders this promise by so focusing the leads on their libidos that they act like a pair of horny teenagers rather than the adults they are. Janey…
The Star-Crossed Bride is melodramatic, illogical, and more than a little silly. On the other hand, it is somehow strangely compelling. For some reason the plot drew me in even though it made little sense, and I was curious about these characters, even though I didn’t particularly like them. Valentine Fenster and Emily Weatherley fell…
Molly Tierney planned to spend a year teaching, and learning about the Irish part of her heritage, in Inishmore, a small island off the coast of Ireland. But when she arrives, her brother and sister-in-law, Kerry and Danny, have just died – leaving behind three young children. Kerry’s brother Sean O’Malley is caring for the…
A Man of Steel is a medieval romance set in northern England in the fourteenth century. Camilla is a widow indebted to the sheriff Godric and she’s promised to marry Godric’s son Risby – sight unseen. Risby is expected to arrive any time, but before he arrives, Godric’s castle gets another visitor, Sir Stevyn Strongbow….
There are some books you just should not read if you’re feeling depressed or gloomy and A January Chill is definitely one of them. Right up to the last few pages the characters are so depressed, unhappy, and angry that by the time I was done reading the book, so was I. Twelve years ago…
This book is not a romance. It is a mystery with a romantic subplot. It is dark, gritty, the villain is truly evil yet sad and sympathetic at the same time, and it is a definite page-turner. So don’t pick up Bone Cold just before bedtime. Harlow Anatasia Grail was considered a Hollywood princess. Daughter…
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