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Hope Tarr makes an impressive debut with A Rogue’s Pleasure. Normally I am not at all fond of the romping and feisty heroine who dresses up as a boy, but I couldn’t help but like Chelsea Bellamy. She doesn’t romp and posture because she is a little Miss Spitfire; she has a reason for her…
When Elspeth Murray was nine, she discovered a bleeding teenager hiding on her family’s Scottish holdings, fleeing from a crime he didn’t commit. Elspeth has never forgotten handsome young Cormac Armstrong, the young man her family nursed back to health. Ten years later, Cormac returns the favor by saving Elspeth, now a stunning young healer,…
Some books may look ordinary, but hold special surprises. If you love Westerns, you really ought to do yourself a favor and check out The Colonel’s Widow. Amanda Green, a nurse for the Union, was widowed in the Civil War, and soon after her husband’s death she is confronted by angry townspeople. Amanda’s late husband,…
In the past, I have really enjoyed Elizabeth Lowell’s books. A Woman Without Lies is one of my favorite romances and I’ve enjoyed the Donovan family series as well. Unfortunately, Beautiful Dreamer didn’t live up to my expectations. Hope is a woman who dreams of water. She needs water for her ranch or else she’ll…
Lynn Collum’s The Christmas Charm is the first in a trilogy about the three children of Mr. Addington, a younger son of a baron who left England to make his way in business on the continent. Mrs. Addington was an Italian, and the family is close and happy, although not wealthy. This book is the…
The Marquis’ Kiss would have been rated higher if the style had been a little less florid and the characters less flamboyant. Characters don’t talk so much as they declaim. They don’t move – they posture. At one point, I was just waiting for Snidley Whiplash to come out of the bushes, twirl his mustache…
The Country Mouse tells a love story at a very leisurely pace. There are books that build slowly, and books that build s-l-o-w-l-y. The Country Mouse could probably be better described as The Meandering Mouse. The country mouse in question is Miss Lavinia Taylor, who is really a town mouse who hopes to move to…
Gretchen Brannon, an incredibly sheltered young woman from tiny Jacobsville, Texas, is vacationing in Tangier with her friend Maggie before Maggie departs for her new job as personal assistant to the sheik of Qawi, a tiny Middle Eastern nation. When Maggie is called home for a family emergency, she suggests that Gretchen take her job…
Improper Advances starts out with an intriguing heroine who seems very different from the pack. She’s a widow and a professional singer – not a shy, retiring miss or a spunky, virgin blue-stocking. She also has a reputation, mostly undeserved, for dallying with men. I was immediately interested in her. But alas, the plot is…
Connie Willis has received several Hugo and Nebula awards for her skillful writing and she’s got two previous DIK reviews on AAR. Uncharted Territory is different in tone from both Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing Of The Dog but no less intelligent. Findriddy and Carson are explorers who boldly go to where no man…
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