I think you’re really going to enjoy The Marriage Wager. It is one of the finest marriage of convenience stories I’ve read, and features, as do many historicals these days, a widowed and adult heroine as opposed to a nubile teenager. This is the Regency-era historical of Lady Emma Tarrant, whose disastrous elopement to a…
I first read Then Came You in 1993, shortly after discovering romance, and it is one of the reasons I fell in love with the genre. Different than most of the romances I’d read, it featured a heroine more tortured than the hero, a so-called “fallen” woman with a wicked reputation. Perhaps I fell in…
Velvet Bond is my favorite Medieval Romance. It isn’t filled with Court intrigue or warriors and battles. Instead it is simply the story of an incredible romance between a man and a woman amidst the country setting of medieval Britain. Lord Raynor and Lady Elizabeth are forced into marriage by edict of the King after…
Wild Roses opens brutally, after a young Irish girl has been raped by Norman soldiers in the 13th century. Juxtaposed against the cruel and wild setting is Duncan, Lord FitzWilliam, the Norman warrior who is hero in this tale. We learn shortly after he orders and watches the hanging of the soldiers that he is…
Castles is Julie Garwood at her best. It is witty, sexy, romantic, and has enough danger to keep things moving quickly. In fact, the only thing I don’t love about this book is that I finished it too quickly. But that’s alright too, because I’ve read it over and over and over again since first…
Julia Quinn writes wonderfully witty, sexy books that work best when there isn’t a plot, or a traditional “villain.” That’s why Splendid is one of my all-time keepers. That’s why I liked Dancing at Midnight less than Splendid, and why I like Minx better than Dancing at Midnight. Minx is the delightful love story of…
You and No Other is a reasonably well-written Regency-set historical that tells the story of a widow whose feckless brother-in-law has gambled away her house. Lady Caroline Pearson is determined to get the deed to her home back from current owner James Farrington, a self-made man who also happens to be an irresistible rake. If…
Winterburn’s Rose is much like a delicate flower growing in a garden. It is different in color, texture, and tone than most other flowers. But it isn’t going to fully bloom, although the author uses a fairly unique green thumb to help it along. Winterburn is Leigh Nash, the Earl of Winterburn, a supposedly jaded,…
The Maiden Bride is a Medieval romance in all its glory. The feel is there, the taste, the smell, the war-hardened men, the superstitions, the love, and the hate. In order to protect her beloved twin sister from marriage to a brutal Norman lord, Lady Linnea, doomed since birth as a “devil child,” decides to…
Some of the books I’ve read lately have made me wonder whether or not I might be suffering from a terminal case of “First as Favorites” syndrome. In fact, after reading Prince of Swords, I sat down with A Rose at Midnight, an earlier book by Anne Stuart, to make sure it was as wonderful…
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