This month’s book is Heather Cullman’s Scandal, a tale of a marquess’s daughter forced to marry a wealthy commoner who made his fortune in India. Gideon Harwood discovers a secret about Lady Julia’s father and agrees to marry her so that she might help his younger sisters gain entree into the ton. As he comes…
When A Dangerous Fancy opens, it is 1890 and Alexander Drake has just retuned from an assignment abroad in the service of the British government. Because Alex is a friend of Prince Edward, one of the first things he does is to go to attend the Prince at their club. Upon walking into the Prince’s…
“It was unbelievable, a play written by a madman.” So thinks a character late in this book, and I couldn’t help but agree. Although Ms. Coulter used to be an autobuy for me, The Penwyth Curse is an accurate example of why that has ceased to be so. While once upon a time you could…
I’ve read Elizabeth Thornton before, but I’ve never read an Elizabeth Thornton quite like this one. Frankly, before reading this book, I rated her as an author I enjoyed when persuaded by reviews and message board buzz to check out her latest release, but definitely not as an autobuy. All that’s changed. In Almost a…
Captured Innocence is a princess story with little charm. I read and enjoyed one of Sizemore’s fantasy titles, so I was a bit surprised at how little this book engaged me. Lady Lily Bancroft grew up living a fairly simple life in the English countryside. Her parents were loving, and she didn’t think much about…
If you like those Indian romances – you know the ones, where the chieftan hero captures and falls for the beautiful blonde heroine who then proceeds to bring the light of progress to his backward tribe – then you’re sure to love this book, which is the exact same plot, transplanted on another continent and…
The Rogue is one of the few books that I bought and then reviewed. I’d read Ms. Delacroix’s previous book Double Trouble (written under her Claire Cross pseudonym) and loved so much about it. I loved that it was told in the first person, I loved the much edgier than usual heroine, I loved that…
Every successful author must have at least one book published early in her career, which is surely the last she would recommend to anyone looking for a sample of her work. For Patricia Gaffney, Sweet Treason could be it. Unfortunately, even the engrossing story and elegant prose couldn’t redeem its two great blunders: a hugely…
Sophie Haversham is an impoverished gentlewoman who can sometimes see the future in her dreams. This time, she has seen an image of a violent murder that she wants desperately to prevent, but when she goes to the police to report her vision, Sophie discovers that the victim she foresaw is none other than one…
This book would have been so much better if it weren’t for the hero and heroine. Which is not a really promising realization to have about a romance novel, but having had it, I thought I’d better warn you. Gideon Harwood, recently returned from India, is searching for his lost brother Caleb when he stumbles…
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