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Take a widower Earl with two young daughters; a lovely, sexy, widow Lady and her young, klutzy sister; stir in a Big Misunderstanding; pour them into a bucolic setting, and you have a recipe for another Regency Romance. Bland? Could be, but this one isn’t, due to sympathetic characters who are truly good people, and…
I just finished a marvelous Linda Howard book featuring a secret agent in deep cover and in deep trouble and the brave and resourceful woman who saves his life and falls in love with him. No, it wasn’t her latest hardcover All The Queen’s Men, I’m talking about Diamond Bay, one of Howard’s earlier and…
Retain this review for your records. This is the silliest book I have ever read. I may be overstating it though, because, in my (decidedly subjective opinion) Savage Fires is not really a book. It is more like an outline for a television series, the kind that sanitizes American history and uses every possible “disease…
The Best Man Switch is a better-than-it-sounds story of a woman baffled by twin brothers, but who manages to fall in love with the right brother (for a change). Mitzi Campion has given up on men. Two of her former relationships dumped her in favor of “more interesting” women; the third became a monk. With…
Downhome Darlin’ takes place in a very small town in Colorado. When Abby Stanton’s fiancé dumps her, claiming she’s too dull and uninspiring to marry, Abby decides to become a Wild Woman, at least for one night. Overly made-up, with big hair and dressed to kill, Abby goes bar-hopping with her two sisters in the…
This is my kind of romance: two people drawn inexplicably to each other who, for various, often noble reasons, feel they must fight what they feel for each other. The struggle is a moot one, however, as the spell that holds the two lovers in its grip is too powerful to undo. After reading a…
The Cowboy’s Bride is Canadian author Carolyne Aarsen’s fourth book under the Love Inspired label. Here is an engaging story of two young Canadians who find “divine” love on earth as they each face seemingly insurmountable barriers in their struggles to attain their own dreams. An irresistibly charming hero makes for enjoyable reading, despite a…
One thing I’ve noticed about Mary Balogh fans is that everyone seems to have a different favorite. While this probably has something to do with the fact that she’s a prolific writer, I think it’s also because her books are as different as her fans. When you open up one of her books, you never…
When I read Heart of the West for the first time three years ago, I was not aware that I had a romance in my hands. Nor did I expect to become so engrossed in the book that I could not think of anything else for days. Re-reading it again for this review only confirmed…
“Oh, man,” I thought, when I read the cover of Kathleen Eagle’s new book, “not another secret-baby story!” But saying Eagle has written a secret-baby book is like saying Margaret Mitchell wrote about the Civil War. What the Heart Knows is a finely crafted and moving tale of love, loss, and a chain of events…
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