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Romance readers look to Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte as writers whose books were ancestors to today’s modern romance novels. In addition to these wonderful British ladies, I would like to propose a work by a 19th century American woman writer. This book features a character who was wildly popular and is the prototype of…
“Let’s say that my character is a house of many rooms,” says Michael Florio, the anti-hero of this thriller. Although I had heard raves about this book and knew of the level of suspense in the story, I wasn’t prepared to be as engrossed as I was – for the first two-thirds of the book,…
Sunrise has two things going for it – a wonderfully evocative Early American setting on Nantucket Island, and a commoner hero whose gruff demeanor and warm heart reminded me of New Englanders that I know in this century. Sunrise is a familiar story, but these two things made it very enjoyable to me. The story…
Need a laugh? Need a pick-me-up? Have I got the book for you. Deborah Simmons newest, The Gentleman Thief has the light frothy appeal of traditional Regency Romance with the extra advantage of some very warm love scenes. It’s a kind of a 19th century screwball comedy with a ditsy-but-tenacious heroine and an appealing Remington…
What’s a Prickly Pear, I wondered? Being from the Northeast, I had no clue. After a little web research I found this definition which I found pretty hilarious once I began the story: Prickly Pear, Opuntia compressa (OPUHU), is a cactus which grows on sandy soils of South Jersey and also on rocky outcroppings of…
This is the story of two people who have been to hell. Together they find, not heaven, but seemingly more hell. Tara Marcus is a prickly radical whose ethical causes have brought her several jail sentences, including one incarceration in Chile during which she was raped and tortured. She now works as a midwife at…
I like romances in all degrees of sensuality, but after seeing the steamy cover of Starlight, Starbright, I admit I was looking forward to some seriously hot love scenes. Unfortunately, this was the least of my disappointments as far as this book was concerned. Lovely Serena is a gifted young woman about to be married….
Annaleah Fairchilde is a spirited lass who refuses to consider the suit of Lord Barrimore, a duke’s heir. For this impertinence she is exiled from her London Season to the isolated Cornish home of eccentric Great-aunt Florence. While walking on the beach, Anna discovers the unconscious, mistreated and nearly-naked body of a strange man. Anna…
An Improper Proposal is a sexy, action-packed, humorous book. This is not a book to turn to if you are looking for in-depth character analysis or tortured, soul-searching heroes; this one is just pure fun. While it’s slightly flawed at the end, overall it provides for solid entertainment. Payton Dixon has had a rather unconventional…
To Please a Lady, by Susan Johnson, the sequel to Outlaw, is set in Scotland in 1705, a time when considerable political gamesmanship went on between England and Scotland. Caught in the middle is the Scottish Earl, Robbie Carre, the 18-year-old brother of the hero in Outlaw, and Roxanne, the widowed Countess of Kilmarnock. Roxanne,…
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