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Julie Kenner tackles a modern-day, urbanized version of “The Little Mermaid” in The Cat’s Fancy. Maggie is a black cat with ambition. She loves her owner Nicholas Goodman so much that she’s willing to transform into a human to save him from the biggest mistake of his life: marrying Angela Palmer, the coldest Ice Queen…
I didn’t have very high hopes for Timestruck by Flora Speer – those folks at Lovespell really need to think about their cover art – but I was pleasantly surprised. Gina McCain is the bitter, untrusting product of the foster care system. She has no friends and no life, but that’s okay: she’s about to…
People have always been fascinated with stories about our own doom, and the struggle between Heaven and Hell, good and evil. Movies such as The End of Days, and The Seventh Sign are good examples of this concept. This book is like one of those movies as it is mostly a standard offering about the…
If you’re a die-hard futuristic fan you’ll no doubt find a lot to like in The Black Rose because it contains some interesting ideas along with a sexy, if enigmatic, hero. But if you’re looking for a memorable romance along with the nifty futuristic setting, you may find yourself as disappointed as I was, especially…
Lovers of fairy tales will enjoy the fanciful twist Kate Holmes puts on a classic fairy tale in The Wild Swans. Princess Arianne has problems. As the main caretaker of her 12 younger brothers, she is the one who must come to their rescue when they are turned into swans. She has to knit 12…
Everybody’s got it. A spark, a kernel, something in our heads and hearts that lets us believe that someday we’ll meet that someone. The love fate intended for us. For some, the meeting happens early, for others it does not. Lamb in Love is the sweet, funny story of a man who thinks he’s finally…
I define a “Desert Isle Keeper” as a book that sticks in my mind long after I’ve read the last page, a book I’ll re-read and think about, one I’d recommend to all and sundry. Usually I can give someone lots of information about a DIK read – but not in this case. This is…
This is an angel romance, complete with bumbling angel and cute child, yet it avoids being too sweet. After all, the plot involves a master criminal who operates from afar; a heroine who is running a corporation and searching for her missing husband; and a hero with amnesia who is afraid that he was once…
In Here Comes the Bride, Pamela Morsi introduces us to Gussie Mudd – a woman who owns her own ice manufacturing company and knows exactly what she wants and how to get it. As the book begins she has decided to marry the town barber, Amos Dewey, and she hires the manager of her ice…
Nineteenth century New York was a place with as much decadence and grandeur as Regency London. It also had a host of recognizable settings and lots of famous characters to play walk-on roles. Betina Krahn’s Sweet Talking Man makes good use of this richness, taking readers everywhere from an upscale brothel, to a settlement house…
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