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There’s something about the Douglass family. Until now, my favorite of Sally Tyler Hayes’ Division One novels was Dangerous to Love starring Jamie Douglass and Dan Reese. Now, along comes Her Secret Guardian starring Sean Douglass, and I have a new favorite. Sean Douglass watched out for Dr. Grace Evans as she traveled to dangerous…
Readers who are familiar with The Scarlet Pimpernel will undoubtedly recognize the main elements in The Black Knave: A seemingly foppish, ineffectual young nobleman fools everyone around him, including his wife, into thinking he could never be the man responsible for aiding in the escape of persons threatened with execution by a merciless authority. Only…
Virginia Henley has been writing historical romance since the early 1980s. She continues to write the larger-than-life, old-style romance she is famous for. For this reviewer, The Marriage Prize features a potentially engaging plot that is undermined by prose that can only be described as the deepest purple, a hoydenish and defiant heroine who tosses…
Everyone loved Boston’s favorite politician, Philip Stewart. Everyone, that is except the person who murdered him. When the councillor is found shot to death in his home, shock waves ripple through Boston. The police are stumped. There are no witnesses, no clues and no one can think of any reason why someone would want to…
The Nabob’s Daughter contains loads of snappy dialogue, a bit of exciting action, a hint of intrigue, and an assortment of characters who range from stereotypical to original. Perhaps the only real lack is romance, and this is what keeps this story from rising to the top. The ever-so-proper and reputed woman-hater Lord Stone Chance…
I picked up The Women of Primrose Creek: Christy because I thought it might be a fun, quick read. Well, I got the quick part right; at 162 pages it was a breeze to finish. Parts of it were fun too, but in the end there just wasn’t quite enough story to make the book…
I read this book with a pack of post-it notes handy so I could mark striking phrases and images. When the book became very thick from yellow flags sticking out of it, I knew I had to take this one to the Desert Island. Beautiful Stranger is one of the most beautifully written books I…
Fay Robinson makes a strong debut with A Man Like Mac, which features one of the best heroes to come down the romance road in a long time. John “Mac” McCandless is a teacher, a coach, a world-class athlete and a paraplegic. When paraplegics are featured in a romance, the plot often consists of the…
Don’t let the “Contemporary Women’s Fiction” label fool you; In the Midnight Rain is about as romantic as it gets. This is my first Ruth Wind, and oh my, how this lady can tell a tale. For those of you, like myself, who have memories of what it was like to send boys we cared…
Tears of the Moon is a delightful addition to Nora Roberts’ Gallagher Siblings trilogy. It has the hallmarks one expects from a Nora Roberts book – well-developed characters, great dialogue, and a quaint Irish setting to boot. Readers who have been anxiously awaiting this installment won’t be disappointed. The first book in this trilogy, Jewels…
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