Sometimes a simple, uncomplicated story is just what you need to hit the right spot. Mariah Stewart’s Coming Home is a story of starting over and finding love where one least expects it. After two failed marriages and a life of insecurity, Vanessa Keaton is finally content with her lot in life. With the help…
Lovers reunited, friends turned lovers, second chances of any kind – these are all themes that just do it for me. So when I saw that Instant Temptation featured a heroine reunited with her high school crush, I was ready to settle in and enjoy it. The romance itself was actually pretty fun, but there…
Nice is underrated. It’s not outstanding, it’s not spectacular, and it doesn’t break any molds. But there’s nothing wrong with nice, really. That’s Chasing Perfect to a T. Fool’s Gold is a small town with a quirk: It has a shortage of men. Without men, nature can’t exactly do its work and the town council…
The story of a young woman going off and finding love in Ireland (or Scotland, or England) is a popular one. We all love those attractive accented men. The reverse, however, is a bit more rare, but that’s what we find in Straight Up, a story in Deirdre Martin’s world that follows an Irish family…
The problem with aiming for cute and missing is that you land in annoying. That is exactly what happened with this book about octogenarian crime fighters, a Lois Lane wannabe, and the town that finds them amusing. Susan Collins had dreamed of being a Lois Lane style reporter since reading her first Superman comic. Saving…
For champion poker player Brett Hennessey luck has always been a lady. Until he takes his fortune and turns his back on the card tables – that’s when she turns into a witch, stalking him in every aspect of his life in Vegas. That’s how others explain his recent string of problems anyway, but Brett…
I divide Nora Roberts’ books into three categories: The good, the sublime, and the rest. Guess where this one falls. For Laurel McBane, Delaney Brown is the One. He’s her best friend’s brother and she knows he’s never seen her as anything but a surrogate sister and very good friend. So she hides her love…
Line of Fire is Jo Davis’s fourth book in her series about the men and women of Fire Station Five. It not only gives us the story of Tommy Skylar, the glamour boy of the outfit, but sets up the story for Sean Tanner, whose story will be told in the next book in the…
Do most brides have nightmares of being left at the altar? I was in such a haze of love and in such a whirl of activity that I don’t remember that feeling at all. The closest I have come to knowing someone left at the altar is when friends called off the wedding two weeks…
I hear readers asking for normal, real life characters all the time – I’m one of them, as a matter of fact. But, when is normal too normal or real too real? In Man of the West, Sadie Callahan introduces the reader to a heroine I felt sorry for instead of feeling compassion toward. For…
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