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Ah … who doesn’t like a tale of adventure and the high seas and of pirates and fair damsels? Generally, I do and I had high hopes for Capturing Annie but for me, it didn’t hit the mark. Annie Bonny, the heroine of the book, was born and raised on a pirate ship. The daughter…
Iris Johansen became one of my favorite suspense authors with The Face of Deception and The Killing Game. Both kept me on the edge of my seat with intricate twists and turns. The Search is scaled back a little in the intricacy of plot, but it is a still a good follow-up to her earlier…
Once a Wolf, by Susan Krinard, follows the relationship of a hero and heroine who are both werewolves. Lady Rowena Forster fled England to avoid marrying the man her brother had chosen for her, a werewolf named Cole MacLean. But she changes her mind when she becomes re-acquainted with Cole in New York and learns…
Georgia Adams is a registered nurse at a Birmingham hospital. Her life is ordinary and routine, but she’s got sexual urges that just are not being satisfied by her very mundane boyfriend Rob, who, after ten months of dating, still hasn’t pressed her for sex. She’s frustrated and, in her opinion, at thirty, not getting…
If I was told I had to go live on a desert island and could take only one romance with me, I would immediately begin to plan how I could smuggle all of Carla Kelly’s books in as one long work. But if the powers that be got firm and said I could take only…
There were many things to like about this book, including the suffragette heroine who wants to be a lawyer and the interesting subplot involving the legal system circa 1874. Unfortunately, seriously unrealistic behavior between the main characters overshadowed the better aspects of the book, rendering it a so-so read in the end. Winifred Appleton has…
Some books can almost be summed up in a single word. For Michele Jaffe’s The Water Nymph, that word would be convoluted. Picture a rough draft of an Amanda Quick novel with the pages all mixed up, and you have The Water Nymph. <!– var browName = navigator.appName; var SiteID = 1; var ZoneID =…
The book I began my keeper shelf with was Once an Angel. Rereading it, I found out why. Seamless, lyrical prose (Medeiros is truly a word artist), an unconventional setting, touches of magic realism, and a hero and heroine who need each other so deeply, I felt the world might end if they couldn’t be…
A great book is a always a welcome find but one recommended by a friend is even better. My Love, My Enemy is this kind of book. When her name was first mentioned to me, I thought, “Jan Cox Speas – who”? Now I think, “Jan Cox Speas – great author”! Everything about her writing…
Jan Cox Speas’s writing is like a wondrous time machine. If you accept the invitation to step in, she will pick you up, whirl you away and set you gently down in another time and another place, and when your journey has ended, you’ll know you’ve visited somewhere out of the ordinary. In Bride of…
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