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Midnight Pleasures starts out with a rather cute plot about a woman who is in love with one man but engaged to another. Unfortunately, that plot fizzles out in about a hundred pages, leaving two hundred sixty pages of deliberate misunderstandings and depressing tedium. What a disappointment! Lady Sophie York knows that she has a…
Anne Davis, heiress to a Tidewater plantation, is having a disastrous day – first her lover abandons her despite her pregnancy, and then ruffians attack her on the docks of Philadelphia. Then, lo and behold, a handsome stranger rushes to her rescue. She reveals her secret to her sympathetic savior, Irish immigrant Michael O’Ryan, and…
Emmaline Alcott runs a marriage brokerage using the last name of Stanhope and pretending to be a widow. When the Royal Mail coach outside her door runs down a Mr. Burwell, life takes an unexpected turn. Burwell worked in the war office and was being investigated for treason. After his death, a flyer linking him…
Edith Wharton once said that people want a sad story with a happy ending. I love these kinds of stories which explains why I enjoyed this book. The Major’s Mistake is nothing short of gut-wrenching and I mean that in the best way possible. The book opens with an awful scene of sexual molestation. Newly…
I love Kathleen Eagle. I know of no romance author who creates more realistic, genuine characters, and she has a witty, introspective prose style that is uniquely her own. The Last Good Man tells the story of a rather difficult character’s very difficult struggle. Eagle makes it look easy. Savannah Stephens was a wild and…
I love finding new-to-me authors. Kathleen Nance has written two other books and two novellas, and I may have to go find them if they’re all as charming as this novel. Centuries ago, the gods of Olympus ruled the earth. Zeus, the ruler, dallied with many women, among them Io. Long story short, he turned…
I was very excited to review Lynsay Sands’ newest release. Her novel The Key is one of my favorite funnies, and I also enjoyed her anthology piece in Five Gold Rings. But despite a promising start, Always falters under the weight of too-familiar characters and plot developments. Aric of Burkhart has just discovered his fiancee…
While reading this book, I began to bawl like a baby after being shouted at by my daughter regarding a pair of socks. As if that weren’t enough, by the time I finished The First Time, I was crying so loudly I scared the cat. Joy Fielding, whose earlier works are thrillers, has, in The…
Augusta Mudd is a successful business owner in the little town of Cottonwood, Texas in the first decade of the twentieth century. At thirty-one, Gussie is worried that she’s become a spinster. She’s been walking out with handsome widower Amos Dewey for three years now, but when she corners him and demands to know what…
Barbara Metzger is a hit-or-miss author. At best, her Regencies are sparkling little gems full of sly humor and fun wordplay. At worst, they’re silly and contrived, with tiresome puns and labored jokes. This book falls somewhere in between. Galen Woodrow, Lord Woodbridge, has been dumped unceremoniously at the altar by the beautiful but flighty…
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