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Do you recoil in horror when a black cat crosses your path? Live in fear that you might break a mirror and endure seven years of bad luck? If so, then Linsey Gordon is the heroine for you. If you’ve ever walked under a ladder on purpose, or failed to throw your spilled salt over…
May McGoldrick is a pseudonym for Jim and Nikoo McGoldrick, a husband-and-wife writing team. They’ve collaborated on at least six novels – a miracle in itself, considering my husband and I can barely compose a grocery list together. Flame centers around Gavin Kerr, a secondary character from Heart of Gold, one of the McGoldricks’ prior…
I’m a huge hockey fan. So, when I read that the hero of River Rising was a former hockey star, I became engrossed in the plot immediately. But River Rising isn’t about sports. It’s about murder and lust and the problems that can arise when the two become entangled. Carly Samuels is a JAG attorney…
The Night Drifter is one of the most unique romance novels I have ever stumbled across. It’s a story of man who falls in love with a woman’s soul before he falls in lust with her body. It’s also a story of a woman who falls in love with a man she can’t touch. Yes,…
A faery prince hero and a magic-filled plot are more than enough to perk up my ears. Disappointingly, I found myself unable to become engrossed in Kissed by Starlight. The initial setup was enchanting, but it became heavily bogged down with uninteresting, intrusive secondary characters and an excess of needless plot threads. In England in…
Oh Susannah is published by Ponder Romance, a small Canadian company currently being sued by Harlequin. With its limited budget, Ponder is obviously the underdog in this scenario. Since I sympathize with Ponder’s plight, I really hoped I would like this book. Series romances with a Canadian focus sound like a great idea. Unfortunately, this…
During the first half of Into the Wild Wind, I just couldn’t get enough of the hero and heroine. Here, it seemed, were two people just falling in love; neither one was trying to overcome a horrible childhood, or a disastrous first marriage. Then the characters began to make stupid decision after stupid decision, and…
The Long Way Home is the sequel to Desert Isle Keeper Little Darlin’, and while The Long Way Home does stand alone, I highly recommend that you find Little Darlin’ first and read it too. Rita Warren has made a lot of really big mistakes in her life. She bore a child out of wedlock…
The Regency shelf of my Desert Island Keeper book case was inhabited totally by Mary Balogh and Carla Kelly books until now. Allison Lane’s book The Rake’s Rainbow is a simply superb study of obsession on the part of a gentleman toward a lady who is a vicious and amoral slut. The entire ton knows…
Twelfth century Scotland is a wild and brutal place. Between the usual skirmishes, there is always the problem of Viking marauders. King David has been very careful to cultivate what relationships he could with some Vikings, but others continue to try and take the land. Because of this, the king tends to choose alliances carefully….
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