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In The Burning Point, Mary Jo Putney’s first contemporary romance, heroine Kate Corsi returns to her home in Baltimore when her father dies unexpectedly. Her father’s unusual will decrees that she must live with her ex-husband Patrick Donovan for a year, or she and her brother will not receive their inheritances. Kate has always wanted…
As I read this book, I kept thinking that I should be enjoying it more. The interaction between the main characters was strong, the secondary characters were interesting, and the plot had a slightly different twist. Still, it only ended up as an average read for me. Lady Jonet Mercer has the ugly cloud of…
“A Regency tale of terror, tenderness – and dangerous temptation.” So goes the tagline for A Woman Scorned, which is a terrific description for this second book by Liz Carlyle. Jonet, the very recently widowed marchioness of Mercer, is twenty-eight and the mother of two children. Rumor has it she murdered her philandering husband to…
What’re the odds of finding two great stories under the covers of one book? Slim to none? Heck, some months I have difficulty locating just one entertaining story. So I was pleasantly surprised to discover that both stories in the latest Harlequin Duets were enjoyable and contained characters worth spending time with. Cathy Yardley’s The…
What’re the odds of finding two great stories under the covers of one book? Slim to none? Heck, some months I have difficulty locating just one entertaining story. So I was pleasantly surprised to discover that both stories in the latest Harlequin Duets were enjoyable and contained characters worth spending time with. We meet Sara,…
Some authors tend to end a long-running series with quick, slap-dash effort. No one who has even glanced at Heather Graham’s latest 471 page opus could accuse her of that. Triumph is the conclusion of Graham’s Florida series. It encompasses the last couple years of the Civil War and wraps up the story of the…
At times, I wanted to throw tomatoes at the hero of Only in Your Arms. (This bad boy was so bad he was good.) At times, I wanted to pelt the heroine’s father with onions. Sometimes, the plot of seemed too busy. But darn it, I enjoyed this book, and recommend it heartily, flaws and…
I hope I won’t need my fire extinguisher, but here goes – I found the romance in Titanic to be contrived and artificial. So when I began this book, a romance set aboard another real life doomed sea voyage, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Thank goodness Brenda Hiatt created the characters of Kent and…
Disguised Blessing is a pleasant read and an example of what I prefer if I’m reading something that falls into the women’s fiction category. It’s a story that has enjoyable protagonists and a semi-serious plot that isn’t too deep but still has substance. That’s both a strength and a weakness, because the author missed some…
Don’t think I didn’t hear you gasp when you saw the grade for this book. Intrigued, and perhaps alarmed, you pounced on your mouse and clicked to this review to see just what on earth the reviewer was thinking. Perhaps the reviewer’s been living under a rock and doesn’t know who Nora Roberts is. Perhaps…
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