In the Thrill of the Night is the first in a series about friends, all well to do widows. They are happy in their single state and independence and keep busy running The Benevolent Widows Fund. One day as they plan their latest charity ball, Lady Gosford announces that she has taken a lover and…
Mary Balogh has created some of the most tormented of heroines in modern romance, and Catherine Winters is no exception. When Rex Adams, Viscount Rawleigh, and his friends accompany his twin brother Claude Adams and sister-in-law Clarissa to their country estate for a house party, Mrs. Winters mistakes him for his brother and smiles. This…
The Johnstown flood of 1889 – when a dam created to make a lake for a wealthy country club burst, sending a wall of water through the poor mining town downstream – sets the scene for Waiting for the Rainbow. Nearly three thousand people died in the flood. It was hard to pick this book…
I find the 16th and 17th centuries fascinating and it’s gotten quite difficult to find a good historical romance set in these times. When I learned that this novel takes place during the Restoration, I was quite excited to try it. Though the story is way over the top and the plot doesn’t always flow…
Sisters Mathilde and Giselle are in need of a champion. Their father, Lord Ecclesford, recently died and their odious cousin Sir Roald de Sayre is on his way to take possession of the castle. After Roald’s last visit, when he seduced and then raped Mathilde, her father changed his will to cut out Roald and…
I think I’ve hit the wall. The wall built of piles and piles of European Historicals featuring plucky heroines and heroes who’ve worked for the crown. The wall of books that star Regency ingénues who are as far from Austen’s Lizzie and Jane as characters can be. Heroines who engage in sexual behavior at the…
I ended 2005 in a bit of a reading slump, but this novel pulled me right out of it. Gaston’s tale of a marriage in trouble and a plain but honorable heroine coming into her own pulled me in from the very beginning. Likable characters and the author’s gift for creating a believable world made…
Pride and Petticoats is a light Regency-set historical romance featuring an American heroine and an English hero who is a secret agent for the Crown. The cover is one of those generic, Here There Be Hanky Panky In The Past covers we’ve all seen. It’s the one with the shirtless man embracing a wind blown…
Rosemary Rogers is one of those “Old School” romance writers who have been around a long time – long enough to be proclaimed “The Queen of historical romance.” (I’ve heard this title used to describe many romance authors who have been around for a long time, but it says so, right there on the cover,…
A strong, confident heroine is a good thing – if, that is, she’s intelligent and sensible enough that the choices she makes with such conviction are sound. But there are few things more aggravating than a character who is just as confident and forthright when pursuing actions that are foolish, unthinking, and objectionable. That, in…
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