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We all know the current trend: romance author hits the big time and scores a hardcover deal. Of course we’re thrilled that our favorite writer is finally garnering the attention she deserves, but secretly we cringe because we fear we’ve lost yet “another one” to mainstream fiction or gritty suspense. I’m sure most of you…
I was excited when I read that the heroine of Miscalculations by Elizabeth Mansfield was a mathematics whiz. Cool, I thought – math has always been an intimidating subject for me, and I was ready to be impressed. Jane didn’t prove to be much more of a math genius than I am, but this was…
I would not want to have paid full hardcover price for The Heir. It is not poorly written, but it is very dull, the characters are flat and I sometimes found myself in a trance as I read it – and not a pleasant one. I have placed The Heir in the regency period. I’m…
My Fair Lord as the name implies, is a reverse rendition of My Fair Lady. While this was a lighthearted and amusing read, certain elements of the plot were unnecessary and sometimes bogged down the story. I am normally a fan of paranormal elements, but in this case, the relationship between Caroline and Lucas was…
Winter Garden by Adele Ashworth is the sequel to Stolen Charms. Heroine Madeleine DuMais is a Mata Hari-type Frenchwoman spying for the English. Winter Garden brings her together with another English spy, Thomas Blackwood. Thomas has had Madeleine summoned to England ostensibly to help him with a smuggling investigation, but it is quickly obvious that…
Rachel Mast is a young Amish widow struggling with a very fundamental problem. While she loves and reveres her tight-knit community, she’s frustrated by its unwillingness to allow a woman to be independent. One year after her husband, Sam, was crushed and impaled by the hay hook in their barn (all together now: eeeeuww), Rachel…
We all have a friend or family member we love, don’t we, even if, we were being judgmental, we’d find them lacking in character? Don’t we make allowances for their behavior because we care about them? Well, I don’t know Connie Green, the protagonist of Playing Away, so I don’t need to make allowances for…
All Together in One Place is not a romance, but an extremely well-done historical novel of the Oregon Trail. If you have read Western romances that feature characters walking the trail all day and making love all night, you are in for an all together different experience with this book. It’s not pure escapism; rather…
Lady Jane’s Nemesis begins with a somewhat shocking scene – particularly for a Regency Romance. The heroine is out gathering flowers when she catches the hero, who is her fiancé, in a compromising position with another woman. The couple goes on to marry anyway, and the book explores issues like forgiveness and trust. The end…
The Reilly family was blessed by Druids with the ability to recognize moments of life-altering destiny. Bryan Reilly experiences the Blessing when a beautiful woman flings herself into his arms on the Limerick wharves and begs him to pretend to be her husband and save her and her children from danger. Bryan agrees, and collects…
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