Deception is a Gothic-wannabe that gets some of the atmosphere right, but rarely succeeds in capturing the requisite tension and menace, Three years ago in India, Captain Foxton Tremayne was forced to take the fall for a mistake made by his superior officer which cost the lives of many of his men. Due to pressure…
Kat Martin was a favorite of mine during my first days of reading romance. Although her plots usually proved to be rather formulistic, her domineering heroes and acquiescent heroines appealed to me and I knew I could count on her for a pleasurable reading experience. However, my interest in her books has waned over the…
Medieval romances aren’t exactly crowding the shelves of bookstores nowadays, so I was happy to pick one up for review. With Heart of the Dove, Laura Adrian/Tina St. John concludes her Dragon Chalice series. Rand of Greycliff has only one purpose in life now: revenge. Two months ago, the evil knight Silas de Mortaine sent…
It has been two years since I first read Sleeping Beauty (published in 1998), and as I reread this favorite of mine recently, I found it an even greater delight the second time around. While most romances fade from my memory rather quickly, this is one I clearly hadn’t forgotten and I found myself experiencing…
I am going to have to go back and read Much Ado About You, the first book in this series about the Essex sisters. I’ll admit to being a bit lost, but only a bit. This was a sparkling book with delightful characters – both primary and secondary. There are two more Essex sisters and…
Sometimes I’m just in the mood for a good tearjerker – a romance that is touching and emotional and shows how powerfully love can change someone’s life. Redemption is that kind of book. The plot has its rough spots, but the romance is ultimately very sweet and well worth the time spent reading. Since the…
Jane Feather is a longtime favorite of mine. Even when her books are not complete hits (Almost Innocent and the Duncan Sisters trilogy, there’s something about the strength of her writing that gets me every time. When she is on her game, she skillfully intertwines historical fact, intrigue, and romance in a way that is…
I liked it! I really liked it! Though I’m not quite ready to declare that Susan Johnson is back – it will take more than one good book to wipe away the memory of the past few years – When You Love Someone is a compulsively readable historical romance that did bring to mind the…
The title of The Lady Killer can be taken literally: the novel tells the story of Nicole Beauvoire, an assassin code named Scorpion and working in France for the English. Nicole has thus far killed nine men. She is very good at what she does, though she knows she is doomed. Daniel McCurren has been…
Like many new writers, Diane Gaston suffered years of rejection before Harlequin’s Mills & Boon published her first novel, The Mysterious Miss M, for the U.K. market in 2004. What is remarkable about that is Gaston isn’t a British romance writer; she’s an American living in Virginia (who now writes under the name Diane Perkins…
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