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Are you looking for a contemporary romance with strong, sympathetic characters and a positive, realistic attitude toward being in love? If so, don’t even think of reading A Lifetime Loving You. On the other hand, if you’re in the mood for a novel filled with bratty, immature characters and latent misogyny, this book should fit…
I looked forward to reading Glass Houses because I’ve enjoyed Stella Cameron’s work in the past, especially Sheer Pleasures, True Bliss, and Pure Delights. Unfortunately, this book is not in the same class. The story opens with Aiden Flynn, police detective, in fellow policeman Ryan Hill’s apartment. He is there to take care of Ryan’s…
Kelly Sullivan is on the fast-track to making VP at her company and has been sent to Ireland to oversee the takeover of a centuries-old castle her boss has bought in order to turn it into a luxury hotel. The current owners of the castle have been running it as a B&B but are financially…
I’m a big fan of both Suzanne Brockmann and Linda Howard, and knowing that they had recommended Fiona Brand as an author to watch, I was excited to pick up Blade’s Lady. Perhaps their recommendations, along with the loud Internet buzz about this author raised my expectations too high. Although I did enjoy this book,…
How well readers respond to Undercover Bride will depend on how well they can take the idea of a hero, who for 99.9% of the book seems to be the leader of a hate-preaching militia group. Yes, this is a romance and of course Caleb Carpenter is more than he seems, but still this aspect…
For those who love Scottish romances and appreciate a fish-out-of-water story, Rebecca Hagan Lee’s A Hint of Heather is likely to please. This charming tale reverses some standard expectations of the Scottish romance. A Highland clan kidnaps a spouse for its laird – but this time the laird is a woman and the lucky victim…
As I read Silver Wedding, I kept remembering Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography and his discussion of the challenges of being humble: “I cannot boast of much Success in acquiring the Reality of this Virtue [humility]; but I had a good deal with regard to the Appearance of it.” In many ways, Silver Wedding is also about…
I was so hoping A Promise of Roses would be a great Western romance. It seemed to have all the right ingredients – a heroine who owns and runs a stagecoach company (read: strong, independent woman) meets a bounty hunter assigned to investigate recent stagecoach robberies. They fall in love and solve a great mystery….
The mini-series A Year of Loving Dangerously is based around a top-secret government agency named SPEAR. SPEAR is headed by an anonymous leader named Jonah. The SPEAR operatives do not know who Jonah is and do not know when one Jonah retires and another takes over. The current Jonah has found out that the organization…
Crystal Rhodes’ debut novel, Sin, focuses on Rev. Nedra Davis, a minister in an inner-city parish in Oakland, California, and Sinclair “Sin” Reasoner, a mysterious and very handsome man who crosses her path when he tries to get help for two young boys being neglected by their drug-addicted mother. Nedra doesn’t realize that Sin is…
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