Somehow I suspect that the hero in High Plains Bride did not expect to find the woman who betrayed him fourteen years earlier showing up on his doorstep and demanding favors of him at gunpoint. Still, that is just how the book opens and the broken relationship that is healed and rekindled kept me reading…
Eloisa James writes “Ensemble” novels, focusing on a set of people and with storylines which can span several books. It is a style that either resonates with you or doesn’t. In general, while I prefer to read romances which focus primarily on the hero and heroine, I can enjoy James’s style – dependent upon the…
Sophia Nash comes to Avon from the now defunct (sob!) Signet Regency line. Her book, A Dangerous Beauty, is a Regency-set historical romance that really needs to be a lot longer than it is, which is already a substantial 384 pages). You can’t say the Earl and Countess of Twenlyne haven’t secured the title –…
Andrea Pickens, a name well-known to Traditional Regency lovers, begins a new historical series, Merlin’s Maidens, about young women trained to be spies. While I have always enjoy Pickens’ writing, The Spy Wore Silk seemed oddly dispassionate. Mrs. Merlin’s Academy for Select Young Ladies is really a school for spies whose students are street urchins…
The Viscount in Her Bedroom was my first book by Gayle Callen and, after flipping through the book to get an idea of what it was about, I was hesitant about starting. But after a slow beginning, I was intrigued enough and, though I had issues with the book, it is unique in plot and…
Jo Beverley’s books have always been comfort reads to me. Lady Beware, the latest in her Company of Rogues series, fits nicely into this category. Lord Darien returns a hero from the Napoleonic Wars to claim a title that is blemished, to say the least. Because of his wastrel ancestors, lecherous father, and insanely murderous…
I’m never quite sure what I’m going to get when I pick up a Lynsay Sands romance. Her books tend to be either quirky and fun, or quirky and painful. However, I tend to like her Medievals – especially The Deed and The Key – and I looked forward her new one, though the title,…
I read the first twenty pages of Suzanne Enoch’s Sins of a Duke, sighed, and settled in for a fantastic read. After all, the heroine – before being properly introduced – had just slapped the hero across the face in front of a ballroom full of people. Enoch’s new romance is loosely connected to the…
The setting of this romance is unusual, and highly attractive. The island of Corfu, in northern Greece just this side of the Albanian border, is described well, and its landscape makes a splendid backdrop to the story and serves as far more than wallpaper. The time is 1817, and the British control the island. Benedict…
Set in Medieval Cornwall, Midnight Marriage takes place against the backdrop of the final years of the power struggle between between King Stephen and Henry FitzEmpress (later to be King Henry II). After the evil Sir Hugh de Noirville manages to drive the Earl of Liskeard out of Cornwall, he marries the earl’s younger daughter…
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