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Can you imagine spending years plotting vengeance on the man who murdered your parents and then when you finally get your chance, something gets in your way and throws a wrench into your plans? In Tina St John’s Lord of Vengeance this happens to Gunnar Rutledge. Gunnar has spent years working towards one goal –…
Wanting You is an “Anastasia” type story. A young woman, who survived life as an Indian captive, arrives at The Regent cattle ranch, claiming to be the long lost granddaughter of matriarch LaDextra Regent. If it turns out that “Anna” is really LaDextra’s granddaughter, then she is the heiress to the ranch, possibly displacing LaDextra’s…
Romance novels by their very nature are predictable creatures. A reader knows when she (or in my case, he) opens the book that a man and a woman are going to meet, fall in love and have a happily ever after, defying all odds. Therefore, it’s up to the writer to do original and unique…
There were so many problems with this book, it’s hard to know where to start. For a change of pace, I’ll start at the end. The title says, “Book One of the Last T’En Trilogy”. I had a different expectation of what “trilogy” meant, because in most of romance series, the following books involve characters…
Eugenia Riley, author of time-travel romance, turns to comedy with her latest, Bushwacked Bride, part of LoveSpell’s Wink and a Kiss series. The novel, while clipping along at a brisk pace with a large cast of characters, devolves quickly into the slapstick tomfoolery suggested by the title and never recovers the note of disdainful amusement…
I keep meaning to pay a visit to the Buried Treasures page and submit Rosalyn West’s name, because I love her books, but I never hear anyone talking about them but me. Consider this review my annual appeal on her behalf – if you like American Historicals with complex characters and incredible conflicts, please give…
Fans of small-town stories will love Breathless for its setting, while readers who like a good mystery will enjoy the courtroom scenes. Don’t worry – Breathless also has great characters, including a hero and heroine who often match wits with each other. Lily Morgan can’t believe that Daniel Walker has the gall to return to…
Tales of the difficulties of publishing a novel in such a competitive industry as romantic fiction are legion. A novel like Kat Martin’s Nothing But Velvet makes you wonder if they are greatly exaggerated. Surely no one would choose to print a manuscript so lacking in compelling characters, interesting plot, and believable dialogue had there…
I was tired of being looked at like I had three heads whenever I told people I’ve never read Nora Roberts, so when Homeport came in, I volunteered to read it. After years of hearing Roberts hailed as a goddess, I expected to completely lose myself in the book. It took longer than I expected,…
I have resisted reading Nora Roberts’ novels because I tend to read primarily historical romance. As both a contemporary novel and a something of a thriller, Homeport is not the kind of romance I would normally pick up. But any novel about winter in Maine seems appealing when it is already ninety degrees outside in…
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