Historical Romance

  • The Orphan

    There’s something kind of creepy to me about a man who falls in love with a woman because he believes she’s helpless and in need of rescue. And, since this plot would likely induce the gag factor in most modern day readers, it’s fortunate that the heroine finds something kind of creepy about it, too….

  • Chloe and the Spy

    Justine Wittich’s Chloe and the Spy is an entertaining tale of a young woman’s yearning for a more exciting life and what happens when she finds it. Lady Chloe Lockwood is set to enjoy a very small taste of Society, but she is more intrigued by her aunt Heloise’s groom, Drury, than the gentlemen of…

  • Heart of a Lion

    Heart of a Lion is a throwback of a romance, an old-fashioned book with flowery narration and a larger than life hero and heroine. Although the first half of the book is almost fatally slow, the pace picks up in the second half and brings the book to a satisfying climax. Isabeau de Lyon is…

  • Irish Rogue

    According to the author biography provided, Irish Rogue is Candace McCarthy’s eighteenth book. This is a fact that astonished me. The uneven pacing and stilted dialogue would make me guess that this was a first novel, if pressed, and one that could have used the efforts of an honest critique group and an editor. Conor…

  • Lord of Ice

    I happily devoured Lord of Ice in one gulp. Only after I had turned the last page did I realize that it made a rather unsatisfying meal. Damien Knight, earl of Winterley, was a war hero on the Peninsula. Now that Napoleon is imprisoned on Elba Damien is experiencing what we recognize as post traumatic…

  • Pride and Prudence

    I may not have read this actual book until this week, but I’ve read at least fifty just like it. If anyone ever asks for an example of a paint by numbers romance, I am going to wave a copy of Pride and Prudence at them. Hero with an identity crisis? Check. Spunky heroine who…

  • My Fair Quiggley

    The ladies of Lucy Lavender Enterprises have fallen on hard times and are desperate need of cash, so they decide to catch notorious highwayman Dandy Dan for the five hundred pounds reward. Lady Miranda, founder of Lucy Lavender, pretends to be stranded along a stretch of road that Dandy Dan frequents and Miss Desdamona Quiggly,…

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