Honey is a sweet slice of late Victorian Americana. It deftly mixes comedy and angst and features a spunky (but ladylike) heroine and a strong (but tortured) hero along with a fine group of supporting characters. Best of all, for a sports lover like me, most of the book takes place during the baseball season…
The Taming of Jessi Rose opens with ten year old Griffin Sloan witnessing his mother’s slow death from tuberculosis. Griffin’s mother had run the railroad station and the railroad bosses had promised she would run the new station when the new rail line came through. However, the new line was subsequently built in another part…
It can be hard to be original when writing a western. At times it really seems as if there are only so many stories, all of which have been told before. One Wish falls squarely in the middle of the western romance pack; it’s neither completely trite nor really innovative. The characters are intriguing, but…
A Season In Eden is the type of book that I normally avoid at all costs. I’m not a big fan of heartache and grief-filled stories and never read one if I can avoid it. I steer clear of mainstream “women’s fiction” for exactly this reason. Reality surrounds me and if I want a good…
When Rider Magrane was a teenager, he and some friends decided to rustle some cattle, just for kicks. As a result, one of Rider’s friends was shot and killed, and he and the others spent five years in prison. Now released, Rider has returned to his hometown of Drover, Kansas, to try to make amends…
What’s a Prickly Pear, I wondered? Being from the Northeast, I had no clue. After a little web research I found this definition which I found pretty hilarious once I began the story: Prickly Pear, Opuntia compressa (OPUHU), is a cactus which grows on sandy soils of South Jersey and also on rocky outcroppings of…
Maggie Osborne is one of those authors that doesn’t always get a lot of attention, even though she consistently produces high quality books. Her characters are rarely rich or flashy; in fact, her heroes and heroines are often misfits who have never even dreamed that they might find romance. Louise “Low” Downe, the heroine of…
A Springwater Christmas is a warm-hearted, rather sweet and predictable tale about acceptance, love and forgiveness that will get you in the holiday spirit. If you’ve read the previous books in the Springwater series, you’ll no doubt be thrilled with the reappearance of these fertile ladies and their numerous offspring. But if you’re like me…
Morgan’s Woman is an average read. There’s nothing horrid about it, but nothing really sets it apart from the pack either. It’s a road romance with a fairly well developed hero and heroine, but the plot contains few surprises. When Tamsin MacGreggor’s husband dies, she is left with nothing but two valuable thoroughbred horses. She’s…
The Bride of Johnny McAllister is a sweet, rather gentle western that only just earns a subtle rating – the hero and heroine barely do more than kiss here! It’s smoothly written, and it’s the kind of book that may appeal to readers who like westerns but find many of them too gritty or dark….
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