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Fans of time travel and suspense might like Susan Plunkett’s latest novel. It’s overstuffed with both, though, so that the relationship between the two main characters suffers. With all that action going on, the love relationship doesn’t have enough time or space devoted to it. Caladonia Hornsby is hiding from her father’s murderers when she…
Ann Maxwell (aka Elizabeth Lowell) knows how to hook her reader. In The Secret Sisters she drops the reader right into the center of high powered, archeological intrigue, peopling her novel with larger than life characters who experience larger than life emotions. But more often than not her writing bubbles well over the top. There…
When the historical romance went through its initial burst of popularity in the 1970’s it was tagged with the hated lable of “bodice ripper.” Historical romances have long way since then, and no one who reads an historical romance by Mary Jo Putney or Laura Kinsale can call their books “bodice ripper” – not if…
When I found out that Midnight Waltz was a Regency with Gothic overtones, I couldn’t wait to read it. Especially when I found out it was in the first person. However, the heroine suffered from a problem common to many Gothic heroines – she often distrusted the hero without good reason. While the unease created…
With a title like The Forgiving Hour , you can easily guess that this is a book about love and forgiveness. In a way, nearly everyone can relate to the subject matter; if you are still speaking to the members of your family, chances are you have had to forgive them at one time or…
I had no problems with One Tough Texan. Where Sweet Memories was slow, Jan Freed’s story zips along. It features cowboy/rancher Matt Granger, a former rodeo champ who is trying to make a go of his own ranch and horse-training business. When his wild-living sister dies in California, leaving a niece he never knew about,…
Sweet Memories/One Tough Texan is part of a 50th anniversary series by Harlequin showcasing reprints of older books with new books by current authors. In this case, a 1984 Superromance by LaVyrle Spencer, Sweet Memories, is matched with One Tough Texan, a new Superromance by Jan Freed. Maybe it’s my Gen-X, raised-on-MTV, attention-span-of-a-gnat sensibility, but…
The buzz on Lady’s Tutor is that it is sexually explicit, a very hot book. Romance is often a derivative genre and I wondered, as I opened it, what form this sizzling story would take. Would the writing be romantically sexy like Dara Joy? Would it border on erotica like Beatrice Small, Thea Devine or…
Ahhh, the lush setting of a tropical island – the rainforests, the views, the volcanos. St. Lucia has everything the intrepid romance adventurer could hope for. The wonderful thing about romance novels is they can transport you to exotic settings without the reader having to get down and dirty with the bugs, dampness, snakes, etc….
Becca Prescott has a problem. She’s about to lose the home she inherited from her grandmother because the deceased woman didn’t pay the taxes before her death. Since leaving Dallas following her husband’s death to cancer, Becca has been determined to make a life for herself and her daughter in Hidalgo County. But since she’s…
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