The Bachelor List is the first in a trilogy focusing on three sisters living in early 1900’s England. In this installment Constance Duncan holds center stage, in a romance that pits her feminist sensibilities against those of Max Ensor, a politician who believes women should stay at home – barefoot and pregnant. While much of…
The bloody Border feuds between the English and the Scots are both terrible and fascinating. But while many have written about them, few books give much consideration to the human side of the brutality marking Border life hundreds of years ago. In The Linnet, Elizabeth English brings this time and place to life, showing both…
Nan Ryan’s latest, Chieftain, features a half-breed Comanche war chief and a free spirit. They meet and fall in love on a reservation (sort of) and run off to be together. While fast-paced, Ryan’s story suffers from a lack of romance, at the very least. Maggie Bankhead is searching for a purpose in life. She…
It’s always a pleasure to come across a new-to-me author with a real knack for telling a story. While Lisa Higdon clearly has that gift, unfortunately, the story she tells here features so many screamingly generic elements that Until You’re Mine ultimately ranks as no more than an average read. Trying to scrape together a…
An intelligent pair of lovers and sizzling sexual tension make Guilty Pleasures a most enjoyable romance. It breaks no new ground, but it tells a familiar story in a very engaging way. Anthony Courtland, the Duke of Tremore, is fascinated with antiquities. He is excavating a Roman villa on one of his properties and plans…
Although I’ve enjoyed the characters Karyn Monk created for this series, the execution of their stories falls a little flat. I looked forward to this story, as the heroine, Charlotte, is one of the most interesting of the recurring characters. But one of my least favorite plot devices (a blackmail plot) ruined what could have…
An Affair Most Wicked is an average read, written in a style reminiscent of many other recent Avon releases. If you’ve been enjoying the offerings of Jeffries, Hawkins, and company, you might enjoy this; it’s kind of in that vein. Clara Wilson has come to London to catch a titled husband, just as her sister…
Many books feature characters who remind us of ourselves or of people we know. They think like us (even if they are, in fact, wearing the garb of another era) and they act much like us. Every now and again, though, an author does a truly excellent job of creating a different world and filling…
No matter how many Regency-set historical novels you’ve read, you haven’t yet met two characters exactly like the protagonists in this story. So refreshing are Scott military hero Liam Lockhart and young mother Ellen Farnsworth that the breath of invigorating air they bring with them is more than enough to overcome their occasionally (okay, more…
Surrender is the tale of Victoria Huntington, a 24-year-old spinster determined to fend off fortune hunters. Lucas Colebrook, Earl of Stonevale, is one such fortune hunter, and he wastes no time in doing everything he can to ensure that Victoria and her fortune become his so that the crumbling estate of Stonevale in Yorkshire can…
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