A Matter of Temptation is the heartrending story of one man’s reemergence into life after enduring years of unbelievable cruelty at the hands of his brother. While the heroine does play a part in the redemption of his tortured soul, she primarily acts as mere romantic window dressing in the life of the hero. Although…
Go ahead and judge this book by its cover. It looks like every other Avon romance you’ve read in the last five years, and that’s how it reads as well. That’s not to say it’s bad, because it isn’t. It’s merely unoriginal. Katherine Fleming is on the verge of marrying Cole Mallory when the unthinkable…
For those of us bemoaning the many juvenile and distressingly formulaic historical romances littering bookstores these days, Lydia Joyce gives us reason to celebrate. The Music of the Night, the author’s second novel, is an intelligent and refreshingly different romance between two intelligent and refreshingly different people. It is – these days, at any rate…
Wild and irresponsible Grant Chandler, disowned younger son to a duke, met an equally reckless Sophie Huntington during her first Season. They fell madly in love and scandalized the ton with their antics. After they gave in to their desires and consummated the relationship, Grant asked Sophie to marry him. She refused and married his…
Gypsy Lover tells the story of Daffyd, a secondary character from previous Layton novels. As a half-Gypsy, Daffyd doesn’t fit into either Romany or British society, and has had to make his own way in life. At the request of a family member, he agrees to search for a runaway heiress before word gets out…
Lisa Jackson’s Temptress is a medieval romance where the main focus is on the suspense plot, while the love story almost seems like an afterthought. I’m not a reader who minds when a romance novel is actually more suspense than romance, so that wouldn’t necessarily be a problem. But while it is a reasonably efficient…
Captain Alexander (Alec) Fraser, officer and lawyer for his Highland Regiment, has been summoned to London to demonstrate Highland broadsword fighting for the Queen’s birthday. There he sees, and becomes entranced with (though he doesn’t speak to) Kate MacCarran, a fellow Highlander in London ostensibly to lobby for relief for Scots war widows. She is…
I heard that Lynn Kerstan mixed passion and intrigue, so when her latest book, Dangerous Passions, came up for review, I snapped it up. I got passion and intrigue, but in a very unbalanced combination. Coupled with some glaring flaws in logic, Dangerous Passions quickly became an unsatisfactory read. The secret Black Phoenix organization has…
Though His Dark Desires takes place in the midst of a sultry New Orleans summer, it represents something quite the opposite for romance readers: a welcome breath of fresh air. Don’t get me wrong – I’m a bonafide Regency girl from w-a-a-a-y back. But somewhere along the way, a steady diet of All-Regency-All-The-Time, interspersed with…
When Olivia Cheltenham’s ambitious mother shoves her into the Thames, Dane Calwell leaps to her rescue. Only one problem: this Viking God-lookalike gets stuck in the mud and has to be rescued by Olivia! Dane is so taken by Olivia that he immediately offers for her, but insists on a quick wedding with no courtship….
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