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A Dangerous Love is the first in what is promised to be a trilogy featuring three sisters known as the Swanlea Spinsters. It centers on the middle daughter, Rosalind. Usually the mention of spinster sisters in a regency (historical or traditional Regency) is enough to make me a little leery. Regency romance spinsters aren’t unwed…
The Yorkshire Lady is not the usual Regency comedy of manners during the Season. True to its title, some of the story takes place in Yorkshire, where our heroine makes her home. There is action and suspense, and more importantly, nice characters that engage the reader. Rachel Barton is spending a few days as the…
Kay Hooper concludes her psychic suspense trilogy with a bang. This final installment features the one character who’s appeared in both previous titles – FBI agent Noah Bishop. Noah, of course, gets his man, but this time he gets his lady, too. Miranda Knight serves as sheriff in a small Tennessee town. When a string…
I wanted to read Captain Cupid Calls the Shots by Elisabeth Fairchild because I was amused by the title. I quickly learned that the book, though it is quirky and more than a little odd, is not a comedy. A deep sense of melancholy pervades this love story between two wounded souls. Alexander Shelbourne was…
The Palace of Tears is literary fiction about love. It follows no romance novel conventions, so it would be unfair to judge it by the standards of the genre: it features adultery, lacks a standard HEA, and has extremely spare characterization. By literary fiction standards I didn’t much care for it either – my standard…
Are you looking for some cozy, feel-good holiday reading? Johanna Lindsey’s latest book, Home for the Holidays is a pocket-size hard cover with a Currier and Ives-esque cover that just might tempt you to give yourself an early Christmas present. But beware: the hero is worse than Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch put together, and…
This is one of the most intense romances I’ve read in a while. From the opening scene to the final pages I was glued to this book. I had one of those nights where you keep reading no matter how late it’s getting. You keep looking at the clock thinking, “If I turn off the…
While reading Rainbow’s End by Rebecca Brandewyne, I mentally played a little game called “Who Would I Throttle?” Would it be the hero, who seems not to be able to perform sexually unless he threatens and dominates the heroine? Or would it be the heroine, who (to her mortification) loves him? Someone has been sabotaging…
Reading this book was a lot like putting on an old well-washed pair of blue jeans. Maybe there were a few small holes, and story may have been a little worn, but overall it fit well, felt very comfortable, and was just the thing I felt like reading at the time. The story begins in…
I didn’t think I’d like Reinventing Romeo. The story of the rich spoiled playboy being guarded by a female FBI agent has often been done before. But Alex Romero and Kate Ellison surprised me by not acting like cliched characters. If it hadn’t been for the terrible sterotyping of the blue collar supporting characters, this…
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