Midnight Pleasures starts out with a rather cute plot about a woman who is in love with one man but engaged to another. Unfortunately, that plot fizzles out in about a hundred pages, leaving two hundred sixty pages of deliberate misunderstandings and depressing tedium. What a disappointment! Lady Sophie York knows that she has a…
Anne Davis, heiress to a Tidewater plantation, is having a disastrous day – first her lover abandons her despite her pregnancy, and then ruffians attack her on the docks of Philadelphia. Then, lo and behold, a handsome stranger rushes to her rescue. She reveals her secret to her sympathetic savior, Irish immigrant Michael O’Ryan, and…
Edith Wharton once said that people want a sad story with a happy ending. I love these kinds of stories which explains why I enjoyed this book. The Major’s Mistake is nothing short of gut-wrenching and I mean that in the best way possible. The book opens with an awful scene of sexual molestation. Newly…
Emmaline Alcott runs a marriage brokerage using the last name of Stanhope and pretending to be a widow. When the Royal Mail coach outside her door runs down a Mr. Burwell, life takes an unexpected turn. Burwell worked in the war office and was being investigated for treason. After his death, a flyer linking him…
I was very excited to review Lynsay Sands’ newest release. Her novel The Key is one of my favorite funnies, and I also enjoyed her anthology piece in Five Gold Rings. But despite a promising start, Always falters under the weight of too-familiar characters and plot developments. Aric of Burkhart has just discovered his fiancee…
I define a “Desert Isle Keeper” as a book that sticks in my mind long after I’ve read the last page, a book I’ll re-read and think about, one I’d recommend to all and sundry. Usually I can give someone lots of information about a DIK read – but not in this case. This is…
Nineteenth century New York was a place with as much decadence and grandeur as Regency London. It also had a host of recognizable settings and lots of famous characters to play walk-on roles. Betina Krahn’s Sweet Talking Man makes good use of this richness, taking readers everywhere from an upscale brothel, to a settlement house…
In Here Comes the Bride, Pamela Morsi introduces us to Gussie Mudd – a woman who owns her own ice manufacturing company and knows exactly what she wants and how to get it. As the book begins she has decided to marry the town barber, Amos Dewey, and she hires the manager of her ice…
Lately, I’ve had trouble finishing books. I get in, get interested, then the middle sags or the story becomes predictable, I lose interest, and end up flipping through the rest of the book just to get it over with. Not so in the case of Jo Goodman’s More Than You Know. The book isn’t perfect,…
Marie Anne Montford, a.k.a. Mary Chilton, is one of three aristocratic English children who were orphaned by the French Revolution. In England it was believed that the children all died, but the youngest (Alexandra) returned in Candace Camp’s 1999 release, Stolen Heart. Marianne, as she now calls herself, has no memory of her life before…
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