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Sandra Hill gives time travel and Vikings a rest and turns her hand to a contemporary romantic comedy with a touch of fantasy. The result, The Love Potion is her best since The Last Viking. The Love Potion is funny and fast-paced with one of her always-sexy heroes and a heroine who is sweet, smart…
I usually run far, far away from baby and amnesia stories. So you’d think I’d hate You Were On My Mind, Margot Early’s first novel in her Midwives series. It features a midwife who has lost all but the last ten years of her life, and who also appears to be about ten months pregnant…
The second book in a trilogy labors under some problems. It has to recap the story from the first book so new readers will not get lost and set the stage for the story in the third book as well, and do all this without losing sight of the main goal – to tell its…
If you are ready for something different – a bit off the beaten track for historical romance – take a look at His Stolen Bride by Judith Stanton. It features both an unusual time period and setting, taking place in the rural North Carolina and Pennsylvania Moravian community in the 1790s. It’s an engaging story…
Best friends Polly Sutherland and Amy Jo Baxter are as different as night and day, on the surface, when we meet them as young girls in the American Midwest. Amy tells a shocked Polly that she allowed a beau to kiss her, and underneath Polly’s prim and proper façade lies the romantic desire to find…
If you have ever found yourself wondering just what purple prose looks like in a novel, look no further. This books has all that more. You will find yourself in the midst of flashing orbs, rampaging lusts, and tenebrous – yes, tenebrous – gloom. The moon does not merely rise in the sky, it appears…
Josephine Evans and Cole Dumanski, the protagonists of Prince Charming, hated one another on sight. She thought that he was a crude, loudmouthed chauvinist. He thought that she was a prissy snob. I heartily agreed with both of them. Cole is a Mississippi River towboat captain who desperately needs a cook for his next New…
Catherine Coulter and Mary Jo Putney have both rewritten their old Regencies as longer historical romances, but The Scottish Legacy is the first rewritten Regency I’ve read that is still a Regency. Originally published in 1981 as The Covington Inheritance, the book now has somewhat different characters, a different ending, and is told from the…
The MacLean Groom is very much average; it’s not horrible, but it doesn’t exactly set the pond on fire either. The endearing hero is paired with a ho-hum heroine, and the promising first half is followed by a somewhat disappointing second one. It’s also the first book in a trilogy, and it reads like one;…
This book reminded me of cotton candy – sugary sweet, airy, with only the slightest hint of artificial flavor lasting on the tongue when the substance has finally melted away, little variety in a taste that appeals mostly to children. And did I say sugary sweet? Esmeralda Montoya is a Mexican woman living in 1881…
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