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  • A Time for Dreams

    Crafting a love story set amidst tragedy is always a chancy proposition. In A Time for Dreams, author Jen Holling succeeds, to a degree. Although I had some difficulty with the writing style, and found the hero and heroine less than totally engaging, the story was compelling enough to keep me going to the believable…

  • Trust No One

    Trust No One is romantic suspense with the emphasis on suspense. While there is a believable romance and an enjoyable hero and heroine, the romance is ultimately overshadowed by the various threads of the suspense plot. Julia Bradshaw is a single mother struggling to make a success of her Monterey Bed-&-Breakfast. It’s not enough that…

  • Fair Game

    Clarissa Feeney in Fair Game is one of the most charming and utterly lovable heroines I have met in a Regency Romance. She is beautiful but is not puffed up about it, she is intelligent without being a bluestocking, slightly naive but not missish, and has a high standard of morals without being puritanical. She…

  • My Valentine

    My Valentine is the latest entry in Jove’s “Friends Romance” line. Like the others, it says on the cover, “In matters of the heart, you can always trust your friends.” Like the others, it has absolutely nothing to do with friends. Memo to Jove: Table this line until you get in some manuscripts that actually…

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