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Author Donna Ball has found great success with the popular werewolf books she’s written as Donna Boyd. For me though, her greatest achievement remains Wolf in Waiting, part of the Heart of the Wolf trilogy she wrote as Rebecca Flanders for the Silhouette Shadows line in the mid-90’s. Set in a world of beautiful and…
Sick of slogging through books so filled with kids, secondary characters, and/or dull mystery subplots that you wonder if you missed the romance? Finding too many books lacking that oh-so-important ingredient called sexual tension? Well, I sure as heck am! So, for me, reading a Christmas Fantasy was like eating Godiva chocolates after months of…
The mysterious cover art and all the effusive cover blurbs on this novel might have you thinking that you’re in for a dark, intelligent, suspenseful read. Well, forget it. Gayle Lynds ain’t no John LeCarre, and Mosaic is pure froth. Julia Austrian, a beautiful concert pianist, is afflicted with psychosomatic blindness. One night, just before…
What do you get when you put together a Scrooge of a doctor with a cheerful pregnant widow? Well, if you’re lucky enough to have Elizabeth Bevarly as the one putting them together for you, then the result is a delightful stocking stuffer. Dr. Reed Atchison and Dr. Seth Mahoney are, almost literally, night and…
Sir Niall of Malloy is a fourteenth century English knight who acts as prison guard for a witch-hunting archbishop. One day, the witch he is to escort to her bloody death is young, comely, and, we are told, “a merry twinkle danced in the warm hazel of her eyes.” Her name is Viviane and she…
Bridger’s Last Stand has an interesting opening. Malcolm Bridger is a cop who has killed a man in the line of duty. Frannie Vaughn is a woman who has lost her job and her fiance in one fell swoop (he dumped her for another woman and gave that woman Frannie’s job). While they are drowning…
What would happen if a fake spiritualist was hired by an unbelieving skeptic to fool a friend, and then managed to conjure up a real spirit? Judith O’Brien offers one possible scenario in The Forever Bride, a lively and suspenseful romance set in turn-of-the-century New York City. Feisty characters, sinister villains, surprising plot twists, and…
You know you have read a good book when, three days after finishing it, your head is still spinning with questions and ideas that the book has raised. In addition to making me really think about issues of color lines (both outside and within the African-American community), Skin Deep makes it pleasant to tackle these…
Maggie Osborne is one of those authors that doesn’t always get a lot of attention, even though she consistently produces high quality books. Her characters are rarely rich or flashy; in fact, her heroes and heroines are often misfits who have never even dreamed that they might find romance. Louise “Low” Downe, the heroine of…
I have read all of Jane Feather’s books from the ’90s and some from the ’80s. This book is her finest because she goes into her material with a depth and complexity her other books lack. While all of her books are entertaining, this one is not only entertaining, it’s thought-provoking. Tarquin is a handsome…
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