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Bond, Stephanie Bond, is a name you should remember when you’re in the mood for a light, funny romance. Her latest, About Last Night…, is no exception. Part of the Temptation subseries The Wrong Bed, About Last Night… features two people trapped in a quarantined hotel room: a bride and the best man! Janine Murphy…
Willed to Wed is one of those books that makes a reviewer want to assign two grades. In this case, an average grade for the first half of the book and a higher grade for the second half. If you had asked me what the grade would be when I was half way through this…
Brides of Durango: Elise begins in a way that would grab any reader’s attention. The heroine, Elise Martin, is standing in front of the stage depot in a wedding gown, waiting for her groom to arrive. When she gets a telegram that he won’t be showing up, she continues to wait for the stage, hoping…
Dark Prince is an excellent example of a book that starts out so well, you’re led to believe you’ve hit on a pretty good thing. Then, about a third of the way through, you realize you’ve read these same words before, nothing new has happened, and not much action has taken place. By the middle,…
I enjoy a good amnesia story – it’s interesting to see how an author serves up a fresh twist on an old cliché. Images in Scarlet uses amnesia to create a hero with a lot of vulnerability and sweetness, which is nice. Unfortunately, the the book doesn’t live up to its promise. Allison Caine encounters…
The hero of The Portrait is Jonas Whitaker, the leading artist of his day in New York City, 1855. Jonas is forced by his patron to take on as his student Imogen, “Genie,” Carter, his patron’s godchild. Genie’s out-of-state father, who wants to make her into an artist like her late sister, is behind this…
Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone? Lisa O’Connor is a neglected wife, unappreciated mother, and dissatisfied homemaker. One day she spots a beautiful twenty-year-old named Tory, and mutters, “I wish I had your life.” Suddenly her wish comes true. Now Lisa is in the body…
Joan Wolf has many devoted fans who will probably enjoy Golden Girl. However, unlike most of her previous books which were written in the first person, Golden Girl has abandoned that style and gone in the opposite direction, giving everybody, including even the lowliest stable hand, a point of view. My personal taste runs to…
“I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.” This Stephen Wright line kept running through my head as I read Debbie Macomber’s Promise, Texas. If you read and loved Macomber’s Heart of Texas series last year, then Promise, Texas will be an enjoyable return to the setting of those books and will act as…
“Just you wait, Rowan Mardsen, I’ll show you ‘manage.’ Just you wait!” Does our heroine, Karin Williams, a woman who has nothing in common with Eliza Doolitle (even though the quote would suggest otherwise), actually show our hero what manage really is? The title, Taming Rowan, would indeed imply so. After reading Taming Rowan, however,…
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