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Next to the requisite HEA ending, it is probably the defining characteristic of most romance novels that there be some sort of conflict between the protagonists. Sometimes this conflict is internal, sometimes external, and sometimes a little of each, but nevertheless, it is always there. Without that conflict, what you have is just a story…
Do I like a bad boy? In real life – no way, but in fiction yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Beverly Barton says in the afterward to this book, that the redeemable bad boy is one of her favorite characters. She has done some really good ones in her Silhouette titles and Johnny Mack…
This book has everything it needs to be a success and yet it left me feeling disconnected. In fact, there’s very little I could point out as being intrinsically wrong with the book, and yet it didn’t work. How’s that for a vague statement? The “everything it needs” includes: Heroine – Beth Simmons, an appropriately…
“Richness” is the word that comes to mind when I think of By Design. This is what happens when an author comes along and takes something familiar – the medieval setting – and brings it to the next level. A proud young woman stands selling her crafted pottery and statues, her poise setting her apart…
Ten years ago, Julie Gates had a humongous crush on her high school English teacher Marc Johnson. She doodled his name in the margins of her books and even took one of those “Attraction Factor” quizzes one finds in every issue of Seventeen magazine. The results of the quiz were a stunning 98% – they…
The Attraction Factor features a fun, intelligent, and strong heroine with a zany taste in jewelry and a difficult family situation on her hands. If the hero of this book hadn’t been such a nitwit, I would have enjoyed it. Julie Gates once had a crush on Marc Johnson, when he was an English teacher…
In the previous book in this series, Simon the terrorist managed to get his hands on 800 pounds of pure heroin. With that much dope, he can sell it and get the money he needs for his ultimate goal – to bring down the agency SPEAR and get his revenge on its head, Jonah. Seth…
I just turned the last page of Virginia Kantra’s latest offering, after reading it in one sitting, and thought, “Ms. Kantra is going to the top.” Maddox Palmer was the bad boy of the small town of Cutler, North Carolina. Called “Mad Dog” because of his skill on the football field, the name stuck through…
Lord and Lady Darleigh have a marriage of convenience, something very common for their day and for people of their standing in society. But Georgiana, Lady Darleigh, is in love with her husband, Brock, who has spent the last two years ignoring her. For his part, Brock did marry Georgina for her money, and after…
Regina Sutherland and Will Creeden were devotedly in love through their college years. They shared the same goals and dreams, and they knew they wanted to spend their lives together. When Will proposed to Regina, she had every intention of accepting – but first wanted to have one last vacation as a single woman, so…
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