Wild Dream is a romantic comedy of some charm, set in a mythical New Mexico town shortly after the Civil War. Alice Duncan’s flair for slapstick and clever comedy comes on too strong for the first part of the book, but then settles down to create some delightful romance between Adelaide Blewitt (pronounce her last…
Bogus Bride breaks my record of giving Harlequin Historicals at least least a passing grade. This one is an F. It takes an interesting premise and mucks it up quite badly. It is 1842. Ten years before, Englishman Sam Jardine left home for the New World after failing to live up to his father’s wishes…
Jill Barnett almost deserves an A for effort in Carried Away. Unfortunately, the execution of this unique melding of two complete love stories and varying points of view doesn’t quite merit a five. Too bad, because this author is one of the best in the genre, writing books that are all at once funny, sexy,…
The only thing scandalous about Scandalous Suzanne is that it was published. Rarely have I read a book that is utterly devoid of sensuality and filled with dialogue so stilted no real person would ever speak it – not even in 1876. This story takes place in Florida, where a handsome Yankee journalist, Ethan Todd,…
I came to read Marrying Stone the backwards way. I liked Simple Jess, the sequel, very much, and I thought that I’d get a chance to read a little bit more about Jesse Best if I read Marrying Stone. I didn’t realize that I would like this one even more than the sequel. What a…
Denim and Lace is a cut above the hackneyed western romances that seem to be cropping up lately. Although the author offers up the traditional feisty, red-haired heroine and an equally traditional hard-bitten, tortured hero, she injects enough humanity into them that they keep the reader interested. Denim and Lace is the story of Samantha…
Just One Kiss is not a sweet and gentle love story. No way. It is the uncompromising story of tortured Morgan O’Connor and his stalwart Lady, Elizabeth Stanton. This lovely Englishwoman comes to Boston in search of her almost-fiancé, Nathaniel. Instead, she meets his older brother, Morgan. Morgan, raised to be responsible for both himself…
The summary on the back cover of Always To Remember ends with the statement that “sometimes love – like courage – whispers instead of shouts.” That is how I will remember this book. It is filled with small moments. There is no feisty heroine and no arrogant hero. There are simply two wounded people brought…
A Taste of Heaven is a wonderful mail-order bride romance, set in the fictional town of Heaven, Montana, in the 1880’s. Our lovely heroine, the widowed and destitute Libby Ross, is left stranded in the small town with no job and no prospects. In desperation, Libby accepts a job as a cook offered by the…
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