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I took one look at the cover and decided I wasn’t going to like this book. A Hawaiian-shirted hero at the beach, holding a large bottle of some kind of alcohol is trying to nuzzle a resistant, tank-topped, short-shorted heroine. Not my style. I read the inside cover where the editorial director claimed Since You’ve…
Regency Romances, as opposed to historical romances in general, are governed by strict conventions. They are short, sweet, must take place during a certain historical period, and almost always feature members of the upper or upper-middle class and their attempts to make suitable marriages. Some authors, working within these rigid conventions, can create perfect, sparkling…
Take my advice and read every other page of this book. If you do, you’ll get a nicely paced, simple love story about a very young woman who is raising her orphaned niece and nephew, and an angry, handsome veterinarian who owns a fabulous jumping horse. Cassie Miller is a talented rider who can take…
Intrigued is the latest in Bertrice Small’s Skye’s Legacy series. The heroine, Autumn Rose Leslie, is the youngest daughter of another Small heroine Jasmine Leslie, now Duchess of Glenkirk, and the great-granddaughter of the famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) Skye O’Malley. This is also the first book in Kensington’s new steamy…
As Scandalous opens, Lady Gabriella Banning discovers that her half-brother has been murdered in Ceylon. To save her sisters from poverty she decides to keep his death to herself and go to London on her own. She hopes to get the oldest, Claire, married off before anyone finds out Marcus is dead. The family arrives…
This is author Katie Rose’s fifth novel, and, after some mixed reviews in the past, I think she may have nailed it with this one. Runaway Hearts worked for me on most every level, and contains a sweetness often missing from romances these days. Mary Lou Finch reminds me of the way Amanda Quick used…
Well, well, well – so Simon the terrorist in The Year of Loving Dangerously mini-series didn’t just spring up as a full blown baddie out of nowhere. About 30 odd years ago, Simon was known as Art Meldrum. He lived in Australia, married and had a daughter, Lise Meldrum. Art/Simon’s wife died when Lise was…
The well-known tale of the arranged marriage between the Scottish laird and the gently bred Englishwoman gets a fine telling in The Marriage Contract. With a resourceful heroine and a tenderhearted hero at its core, it makes for a very pleasant read. It’s 1815 London, and Anne Burnett finds herself married by proxy to Aidan…
I was almost disappointed that I enjoyed this book so much because it means that I have yet another series to follow! This is the fourth book featuring Elizabethan spy Ursula Blanchard as the heroine, but not having read the first three books did not present a problem for me, other than making me want…
I’ve read a lot of Diane Chamberlain and I’ve found it to be a hit or miss affair. I loved Keeper Of The Light and Fire and Rain, but not Summer’s Child or Breaking The Silence . The Courage Tree falls somewhere in the middle; it’s good escapist reading, but not completely satisfying. What you…
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