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….
This is the seventh book featuring a heroine from The Distinguished Academy of Governesses. I have enjoyed Christina Dodd’s work in the past – Candle in the Window, That Scandalous Evening and Rules of Engagement are all on my Keeper Shelf. However, I stopped reading her several years ago when it seemed that her books…
Before writing this review, I spent some time considering my view of wastrels as heroes. Is it necessary for one to be entirely redeemed and a pillar of society by the book’s end or can a hero remain largely unchanged if he becomes immensely lovable? Well, the hero of One Little Sin challenged my definition…
Rules of Passion is the second in a trilogy about the Greentree sisters, who as children were kidnapped from their mother (a famous courtesan named Aphrodite), and found and adopted by Lady Greentree. Now grown, they have recently discovered the identity of their natural mother and have reestablished a relationship with her. This book tells…
Clarissa Fallon is a young woman with a traumatic past; she suffered years of misery before her older brother, Matthew, tracked her down. Now Clarissa lives in the comfortable home of her brother and his new wife, Gemma, and is about to make her debut in society. However, she is having a hard time learning…
The books in Jocelyn Kelley’s Knight series certainly have eye-catching titles. The series focuses on women raised and trained at St. Jude’s Abbey, where, in addition to the usual spiritual training, they are taught to be skilled fighters pledged in service to Queen Eleanor. As the name of the abbey would suggest, the Queen calls…
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