Promise of Gold is not the best book I’ve read all year, but it does have the most unique setting and premise. These two elements go a long way to making this a pretty decent read. Rosa Constanza Wright is a thief. She has three elderly godfathers to support, and can’t provide for them entirely…
Quinn Peverill is the daughter of a wealthy American merchant. Her mother was of an excellent English family, which gives her an entrée into British society. Quinn’s father is anxious for his daughter to be accepted by society, and it would be good for business if she made a respectable match. Quinn, though, is a…
Everyone knows the legend of King Arthur, the once and future king, who will rise again to defend Britain. Here there is a twist. The Britain of the legend is Wales, and when Arthur returns he is reborn as a woman – or so the Welsh rebels think. Aidan de Brice, the Scourge of Wales,…
When I was about sixteen, I had a friend who ran away from home. Life there had become unbearable, so she decided to leave. Everybody was asleep. She crept out into the night and began walking. When she got about half-a-mile from home, she stopped and looked around. She began to think. She had no…
So, you want to be a romance writer? Here are a couple of questions to see if you have what it takes. 1) You are a young, beautiful lady of noble birth. You are in charge. You are broke. Your people are starving and very sick. You must marry, but you refuse all suitors because:…
“Who was that masked man?” A dashing nobleman doing good for the populace while hiding his true identity behind a mask – what a romantic theme! In Jacquie D’Alessandro’s latest effort, Zorro meets Beau Brummell, but with decidedly mixed results. Having witnessed his parents’ unhappy union, and burdened with the knowledge of his sister’s miserable…
As someone who loves historical romances set in the Regency period, it’s a very bad sign when I have to force myself to pick up a book again after each time I put it down. And, since I’ve very much enjoyed Suzanne Enoch’s books in the past, my reaction to this one is especially disappointing….
The Secret Lover is my first Julia London book and I can safely say that I’ve never read a book where the protagonists drove me as crazy as these did. Strangely enough, I’d also recommend the book because of those same protagonists. Ms. London’s latest is related to her Rogues of Regent Street trilogy –…
The mother-daughter writing team of Nicole Byrd apparently received their inspiration for Lady in Waiting from the Greek myth of Circe, who, as detailed in The Odyssey, drugged and transformed most men into swine, then ate them. The resemblance to that story is very superficial; the only real similarity I could see is that the…
If you like Jayne Ann Krentz’s Amanda Quick books, I hope you share a similar affection for Lavinia Lake and Tobias March, the hero and heroine of Slightly Shady, because if you don’t, you’re clearly out of luck. With this book, the author is obviously taking a new direction, in which Lavinia and Tobias are…
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