Can a big, tough, tight-lipped sheriff be a beta hero? Witt Gavin in The Lawman Takes A Wife sure is. Witt is all John Wayne rugged on the outside, but inside he is as soft and sweet as the chocolate drops that he loves so much. It doesn’t take him long to find the candy…
Desert Rain is an “Indian Romance,” but it’s quite different from a run of the mill Indian Romance. For one thing, the author is Native American, for another, he is male. The hero and heroine of the book are both Indians and the romance takes a backseat to an exploration of the lives of the…
My local bookstore owner recommended that I try Beverly Jenkins, so when I got the chance to review her latest book, Before the Dawn, I took it. And while I did the find the historical and ethnic angles in this book to be interesting, I also thought it had some problems that kept it from…
Velda Sherrod’s Lord Of The Plains contains a little bit of originality in plot, but hardly enough to overcome its problems of unsympathic characters, clichéd and condescending attitudes toward American Indians, and painfully poor dialogue. Kate Hartland is a saloon singer whose only goal is to earn money to send back to her sister Maureen…
Sophia LaRue is an agent with the U.S. Secret Service. She operates in Galveston, Texas, under a secret identity known as Twilight’s Ghost. I found the code name rather silly, and the premise just wrong (there were no female Secret Service agents until thirty years ago), but those things aren’t really what bothered me about…
The Outlaw and the Lady opens with Angela Bainbridge, a heroine who manages to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. She walks right into notorious bank robber Lee Raven just as he’s leaving the scene of his latest crime. He kidnaps her and takes her with him, because no one else has…
Though this is the much-awaited next installment in two paranormal series by Susan Krinard, I had a hard time getting through it. Quentin is a uniquely dark hero with unusual demons to slay, but his character is just about the only thing you can look forward to in this slow-moving and clichéd story. Set in…
Books such as The Bad Man’s Bride are the reason I continue reading romance novels. I don’t know why, but it seems true keepers are harder and harder to come by these days. The hero won my heart, totally and completely. Gabriel Jackson is larger than life and acts in truly heroic ways. Gabe is…
I expected The Outlaw and The Lady to be not much different from any other Western romance. After all, how many such books have an outlaw for a hero and a lady for a heroine? He’s a bitter fugitive bent on revenge; she’s the innocent woman he mistakenly abducts. That they are to fall in…
It starts off with a bang: a tomboyish ranch owner’s daughter comes across a man bathing in a creek, mistakes him for a horse thief, and summarily makes him march to the family ranch at gunpoint. She lets him put his clothes back on, but not before experiencing a healthy dose of lust at seeing…
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