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Sugar Mountain, Colorado is geography’s Sybil. One minute it’s Mayberry: full of good folks who eat dinner at six o’clock and cheerfully yield the right of way. The next it’s the town without pity, populated by small-minded grudge-holding bores who would bring back the stockade if they could. This is the setting for Three Wishes,…
Do you feel lucky when you get more than you expect? If so, I strongly recommend this book. It has everything: romance, humor, great characters, mystery, and family secrets. I rarely laugh out loud while reading, not when I’m supposed to anyway, but this gave my smile muscles a good workout while engaging my brain….
There’s been much discussion about romance authors who cross over into mainstream fiction. Many readers feel that the authors give up the romance in order to appeal to a different audience. I don’t know if that’s what Barbara Delinsky is doing with this book, but I do know that this is one of the most…
Northern Nights is a well-researched account of relations not just between Indians and whites, but also between different Indians tribes in the Northwest. It is also a formulaic story of a white woman taken captive by a handsome chief. Isaac (or Fights With Wealth) is both Tsimashian and Haida Indian. His late mother was the…
Don’t get too attached to any of the secondary characters in When Night Falls. I made the mistake of having warm feelings toward some of the secondary characters and when one was horribly killed by Jeb Bassert, the villain of the piece, I felt downright betrayed. The body count in When Night Falls is pretty…
Now I get it. Last year, everyone was raving about Diane Farr’s Fair Game, which won our reader’s award for best Regency Romance. When I read it, the appeal completely eluded me. But I decided to give her another chance, and I’m so glad I did, because my experience with Once Upon a Christmas was…
Sun Wolf’s father taught him three things: Don’t mess with magic, don’t argue with drunks or fanatics, and don’t fall in love. In the course of this novel, he will do all three. The Ladies of Mandrigyn takes place in an imaginary world where a great empire has collapsed, leaving a politically unstable power vacuum….
Viscount Vagabond is a fun Regency romp, an early work by that Incomparable herself, Loretta Chase. Although it employs many standard Regency devices, including hidden identities and interfering servants, thanks to Chase’s writing ability, it’s definitely much better than your standard Regency Romance. The sheltered, bookish Catherine Pelliston is running away from an arranged marriage…
This book was definitely a Desert Isle Keeper for me. Here are some of the reasons why many other readers will hate it: It’s written in the first person; Both the hero and the heroine are unrepentant snobs; and The hero is one of those people who suffers the Agony of Being Born Too Beautiful….
Sam Burton, the town sheriff, is a workaholic. He’s got a wife of sixteen years and four children, but he never seems to spend enough time with them. Duty forever interferes with hometown events, birthdays, soccer games, and homework. In the Prologue, when he forgets his sixteenth anniversary dinner date, his wife Annie decides she’s…
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