Alexander Scarston, the Earl of Selbourne, is a – wait for it – Regency Earl Spy. Unfortunately, he is on forced leave, for his superiors are afraid that Alex’s cover in France has been blown. He is chafing at the bit, for he knows Something Big is in the works and he has been passed…
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Jane Feather’s books for years. I have not once, but twice now given up on her only to be lured back by great buzz about one of her books. The last time this happened was with The Widow’s Kiss, which I loved, but then she lost me again two…
Readers in recent years have complained that the rich, interesting historicals of the past are vanishing. As a reader, I certainly have found myself buying fewer books overall as the meaty historicals I loved started to be replaced by and large with homogenized wallpaper comedies. Fortunately, there are still some good and interesting historicals out…
Mrs. Caroline Fordyce is a young widow living with her two aunts, Milly and Emma, at 22 Corley Street. Having survived a Great Scandal three years ago, Mrs. Fordyce now makes a comfortable living as a writer of sensation novels serialized in weekly installments of the Flying Intelligencer, one of Victorian London’s popular newspapers. Her…
Okay, so it’s not exactly run-of-the-mill to have a hero who’s a knowledgeable and enthusiastic collector of erotic engravings or a heroine who is herself a professional and highly skilled engraver. But, sadly, with those notable exceptions aside, virtually everything about Lord of Sin is undeniably familiar. You’ve got the feisty heroine who keeps secrets…
Jillian Hunter hasn’t had a book published for almost three years. I usually like her humorous writing and was pleased to learn that she has a new trilogy which will be published in three consecutive months, beginning with this book, The Seduction of an English Scoundrel. What do you do when your parents insist that…
Something Like Love is a lighthearted and humorous look at the residents and town of Henry Adams, Kansas in the late 1880s. Beverly Jenkins provides us with two engaging leads – Olivia Sterling, a proper, self-employed woman, and Neil July, a train robber. Olivia and Neil find immense enjoyment in each other’s company and, of…
It seems like there are fewer and fewer good medievals, so I opened Return of the Warrior with fingers crossed. Although it wasn’t exactly original, with its wounded hero with a group of nicknamed friends (it’s part of MacGregor’s Brotherhood of the Sword series), it was fairly rewarding. The biggest problem I could see what…
If You Dare is the first in a trilogy about three Scottish brothers living under a deadly family curse. Kresley Cole tries to capture the feel of those old-school historical romances, full of sweeping adventure and larger-than-life passion, but annoying characters and a shallow storyline drag the book down. Courtland McCarrick is a Scottish mercenary…
When I began reading romance seriously (almost 11 years ago), Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz was among my first discoveries. My husband was in grad school and money was tight, so I would check out all her books from the library. I had an in with the librarian, who would automatically put my name first on…
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