Listen carefully. That whirling sound you hear is Georgette Heyer spinning in her grave. Do you hate that dull historical stuff? Don’t know the difference between an annulment and a divorce and don’t want to? Do you wish that your historical heroines would act more like the characters on All My Children and less like…
Pinkerton agents are a fascinating part of American history, and yet they appear only rarely in historical fiction. Imagine my pleasure when I picked up Almost a Lady and found that the heroine is a Pinkerton agent who isn’t afraid to use her pistol and pearl-handled stiletto. Willow Hastings, as her name would suggest, is…
Jura is a small country whose sovereign, Prince Augustus, is determined that it remain independent and not be swallowed up by the Austrian Empire. He has fought on the side of Great Britain and the allies against Napoleon who had occupied Jura. Augustus forms an alliance with Great Britain – an alliance that is opposed…
While I’ve not read Jodi Thomas before, I have read reviews of her other books, including those in the related McClain series. All the reviews have been good (some have been great), giving me a pleasant sense of anticipation for Twilight in Texas. So it’s with no small amount of confusion that as I write…
The Fairy Tale Bride is the first book in a series about the large Fenster family. The heroine is charmingly optimistic, but the hero left me cold, not a terribly auspicious thing to say about a lead character in a romance novel. Miranda, the eldest Fenster daughter, is considered unmarriageable after having been ruined at…
Tempting was my first Susan Johnson novel. I had heard differing opinions on her work, and I admit I was curious to see what all the fuss was about. Well, you know what they say about curiosity – it killed the cat. At least the cat didn’t have to read Tempting. Lucky cat. The plot,…
I like Rexanne Becnel. I’ve read a few of her books, and I liked them. So, when I was assigned The Matchmaker, I expected to like it as well. The dialogue between her hero and heroines has always been well done, something I appreciate in a love story. And though her books are far from…
Devil May Care by Melanie George is a romance between an angelic woman and a devilish man. I found myself unable to get into the Victorian setting, and it ended on an extremely sour note. Lady Eden Spencer is a convent-raised orphan planning to become a nun. But Mother Superior tells Eden to go live…
As Scandalous opens, Lady Gabriella Banning discovers that her half-brother has been murdered in Ceylon. To save her sisters from poverty she decides to keep his death to herself and go to London on her own. She hopes to get the oldest, Claire, married off before anyone finds out Marcus is dead. The family arrives…
The well-known tale of the arranged marriage between the Scottish laird and the gently bred Englishwoman gets a fine telling in The Marriage Contract. With a resourceful heroine and a tenderhearted hero at its core, it makes for a very pleasant read. It’s 1815 London, and Anne Burnett finds herself married by proxy to Aidan…
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