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In Maureen McKade’s Mail-Order Bride, Kate Murphy arrives in the rough mining town of Orion, Colorado, thinking she will be picked up by the fiancé she has never met. An insecure and lonely young woman, she decided to become a mail-order bride when her father’s death left her with few choices. But she soon discovers…
I have always meant to pick up a Kat Martin book, but life moves in mysterious ways and somehow I never did – which is why I am now so glad that I got to review Silk and Steel, a sequel to Nothing but Velvet. If you prefer the kind of book where you can’t…
The Scotland of Lynsay Sands’ Sweet Revenge bears about as much relation to real Scottish geography, history, and dialect as the Greece of Xena, the Warrior Princess does to actual ancient Greece. Like Xena, when this setting and the characters within it are used for laughs and very light entertainment, it can work. Unfortunately, the…
My used bookstore has a table where they sell older series romances for $.10 each. I have bought quite a few from that table. I’ve purchased my share of duds and bought a few that were just so-so, but for only $.10 each, I figure I can take a chance. Recently, I bought The Trouble…
Stealing Time is definitely not a romance novel, although the main character, April Woo, has a very interesting entanglement going on with her former partner, Mike Sanchez. This book is a compelling and gritty police procedural. If you like that type of book, and can handle some violence and a good bit of rough language,…
This is an unsettling book for reasons that are difficult to describe. There is no graphic violence, no stalkers or killers, and yet the suspense kept me turning the pages well into the night. The suspense is all in how a family is going to deal with a major crisis and how they will come…
Cat and the Countess starts out on a winning note but soon becomes yet another victim of the “too much plot/way too little romance” school of writing. The first scene is really an attention grabber: “As a rule, Niankwe “Wildcat” MacInnes never posed much objection to a woman putting her hand down his pants. In…
All of us know someone who by rights should not be our friend. You know who I mean – the high-school classmate with the outrageous behavior, the co-worker whose logic (or lack of it!) drives you crazy, the girlfriend who exhibits too-stupid-to-live qualities. And yet these people have a certain charisma, a charm to them,…
This was a pleasant enough read until page 175. Sure, the heroine had some problems, but what happened after page 175 was enough to throw me completely out of the book and say to myself, “the author isn’t really going to go there, is she?” Lord William Claridge, who is brother to a duke, has…
Do you sometimes feel like you’re in a romance rut? Are you yearning for a story that steps away from that same old plot? Have I got a book for you! In Forbidden Garden, Tracy Fobes gives us the story of a young widow, Anne Sherwood, who works as a botanical illustrator for Kew Gardens…
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