The Wolf and the Dove challenges the very boundaries of love and war and proves there lays but a fine line between conquered and conqueror. Norman knight and victor, Wulfgar easily ousts cruel Ragnor and takes authority over Darkenwald and the beauty who possesses a provocative courage. Courage, he believes, that is rarely matched by…
Overly arrogant bossy heroes, flawless in face and body and always wealthy beyond belief, rarely appeal to me. In fact, they usually annoy me pretty quickly. When I discovered that the hero of Potent Charms fit all of these qualifications and then some, I groaned aloud at what I was convinced would be a torturous…
St. John Thornton, better known as Sinjun, is being forced to marry against his will. He’s fourteen, and his bride is a mere child of seven, and she’s just as happy to be marrying him – as she demonstrates with a couple of kicks to his shins. Fortunately for Sinjun, after the ceremony he can…
On a Long Ago Night is the type of romance you can really sink your teeth into. It’s lush, exotic, and passionate – in a good way. It’s primarily set in England in 1838 (around the time of Queen Victoria’s coronation), but there are frequent flashbacks to Algiers in 1830. Partly because so much of…
Some authors can take the most bizarre, unbelievable scenarios and make them work. When you’re really involved in a story you can actually believe that a kidnapped woman could fall in love with her captor or that someone could walk through a mirror and emerge in another century. You have to be careful with outrageous…
The Maiden Bride takes place during a sad and frightening period in history. During the fourteenth century, the Black Death ravaged the countryside, decimating the populations of villages, estates and monasteries. Thousands upon thousands of peasants, tradesmen, and crafts people died. Labor was short and in many places there simply were not enough people to…
Although I can’t give it an unqualified recommendation, Night Secrets is an entertaining book. Unfortunately it includes one of my major pet peeves, a heroine who is much, much too young for the hero. As a result, I often squirmed, even as I was whizzing through it. It doesn’t help that the hero takes advantage…
“A Regency tale of terror, tenderness – and dangerous temptation.” So goes the tagline for A Woman Scorned, which is a terrific description for this second book by Liz Carlyle. Jonet, the very recently widowed marchioness of Mercer, is twenty-eight and the mother of two children. Rumor has it she murdered her philandering husband to…
As I read this book, I kept thinking that I should be enjoying it more. The interaction between the main characters was strong, the secondary characters were interesting, and the plot had a slightly different twist. Still, it only ended up as an average read for me. Lady Jonet Mercer has the ugly cloud of…
I hope I won’t need my fire extinguisher, but here goes – I found the romance in Titanic to be contrived and artificial. So when I began this book, a romance set aboard another real life doomed sea voyage, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Thank goodness Brenda Hiatt created the characters of Kent and…
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