The Texan just might have worked if Joan Johnston, instead of writing it as a romance novel, had written it as a six-week set of scripts for the soap opera Dallas. This book has all of the requisite elements for a good juicy soap: amoral magnate patriarch (Blackjack Blackthorne), one-dimensional villianess wife (Eve Blackthorne), multiple…
At a glance, Kayla Perrin’s first offering from Harper Torch books, If You Want Me, seems to have all the right ingredients for a great romance novel: a caring and protective hero, an ugly duckling heroine who’s finally come home a star, and a touch of suspense when someone seems to be stalking her. But…
Take my advice and read every other page of this book. If you do, you’ll get a nicely paced, simple love story about a very young woman who is raising her orphaned niece and nephew, and an angry, handsome veterinarian who owns a fabulous jumping horse. Cassie Miller is a talented rider who can take…
Do you remember when you were in a long-term relationship and thought it was time to get married? Did you go after your guy with games and manipulation when he didn’t come through? If so, then you will totally identify with the heroine of this novel. If you’ve never gone that route and it doesn’t…
Our mystery Pandora for February is the much anticipated The Defiant Hero by Suzanne Brockmann. When Meg Moore’s daughter and grandmother are kidnapped by terrorists, Meg is forced to kidnap a terrorist from a rival group. Navy SEAL John Nilsson is called in to help. He and Meg have met before, when she was married…
Dr. Onika Hamilton is in desperate need of a vacation when she travels to New Jersey to visit her best friend, Kim. Niki, as she’s called, is a pediatrician who has lost her third patient in six months. She is frustrated and burnt out because she feels she could’ve saved these children if her hands…
If, like me, you’ve got a weakness for a man in uniform, Suzanne Brockmann’s latest single-title release The Defiant Hero should hit the mark for you. It’s chock-full of all the things she does so well: intricately woven multiple plotlines, ripping dialogue, intrigue, adventure, and three (count ’em, three!) love stories, past, present, and (I…
The back cover of Back In Baby’s Arms tells of a dying husband’s promise to send an angel to take care of the story’s heroine. This did not make me want to tear into the book and start reading. Rather, I expected a syrupy trip down the Highway to Heaven with a saintly hero who…
Emily Kirkland and Christopher Delgado are two high powered people who need to keep their relationship secret in Rochelle Alers’s Private Passions. If you are absent-minded and forget titles easily, no need to worry, because every other chapter ends with the heroine wondering why she can’t give in to her private passions. <!– var browName…
For several reasons, this book never took off for me. I found the plot to be so-so, the characters incomplete, and the writing style distracting. If you are a fan, you may have a truly different reading experience than I had. This may be one of those books where the joy is in the eye…
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