Have you ever wished for something to be true so much that you convinced yourself it was, even though all signs pointed to the contrary? This is what happens to the heroine in Julia London’s The Devil’s Love. Abbey Carrington has convinced herself that Michael Ingram, Marquis of Darfield, has been waiting years to marry…
If I could distill what it is that makes some heroines come across as warm, lovable and kind while others with very similar characteristics come across as fluffy girls, I’d bottle and sell it. Abigail Carrington in The Devil’s Love is the kind of heroine I love and she is the best thing in the…
Raised in the Colonies, Caroline Richmond’s first significant act upon her return to England is to single-handedly come to the rescue of a dandy who has been set upon by thugs. She shoots two of the bandits while the injured gentleman whimpers and whines inside his carriage – he has been wounded in an anatomically…
The Lion trilogy, a Scots medieval trilogy Suzanne Barclay published in 1995 and 1996 as part of a larger series, was riveting, exciting, and romantic. Knight’s Rebellion, the final installment of the second Sommerville trilogy, falls somewhat short of a the B level grades I awarded to each of the Lion stories. Suzanne Barclay crafts…
The first novelist to grab me by the throat and drag me into the world of romance was Barbara Cartland. I was fifteen years old, trapped in a car driving through the Black Forest and bored. My parents kept pointing out the lovely settings but, hey, I was from Minnesota. Big trees didn’t impress me…
Jane Ashford has lived up to, indeed surpassed, the promise she showed in her first historical, The Marriage Wager, with her second historical, The Bargain. If, as I do, you love historicals set in the regency era, filled with great wit, funny family relations, and a beta hero to die for, you will simply want…
For those of you looking for a book by Catherine Coulter that you can love, I have just the book for you – Night Fire. In a departure from her usual arrogant verging on (or surpassing) abusive hero, she has created instead Burke Drummond. Burke is part warrior and part gentle man. A magnificent specimen…
Mary Balogh’s The Famous Heroine is an amusingly lighthearted Regency romance. The author manages to imbue her witty writing with some surprising and moving emotional intensity and has written wonderfully well-rounded characters to boot. The author gives the hero and heroine elbow room to define themselves and their growing feelings for one another. There are…
Dance by Judy Cuevas is set in France at the beginning of the 20th Century, which doesn’t sound particularly romantic, but is. Everything we consider modern was just beginning to pop: Freud, Picasso, automobiles, motion picture photography, electronic communication, feminism! And to see all these issues rolled out against a backdrop of turn-of-the-century, hub-of-the-universe Paris,…
A Well Pleasured Lady is marvelous entertainment and is likely one of the best romances you will read this year. Christina Dodd, in her first book as a lead author for Avon, has proven amazing versatility in this romance set in 1793, and not the medieval period for which she is best known. This book…
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