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…
The first two books in Evelyn Rogers’ Texas Empires triology followed the adventures of the Harden brothers as they made their way to Texas and glory. In Longhorn, Rogers introduces us to Maddie, the youngest of the Harden siblings and the last remaining family member in New Orleans. Maddie is waiting out the final days…
Do you remember the first really good medieval romance you read? How it completely captivated you and swept you away to another time and place, how you felt as if you were in the moment? It may have been a Jude Deveraux, or a Julie Garwood, or perhaps it was another author but you get…
Phillipa de Paris is a scholar, and the illegitimate daughter of Baron Gui de Beauvais, who finds herself on the wrong end of a dagger one night after attending a lecture. She’s holding the dagger, mind you, and is pointing it at her opponent, but Hugh of Wexford can only shake his head at the…
Do you like marriage-of-convenience plots? Are you a big fan of Julie Garwood’s books? If so, you’ll probably find The Abduction of Julia quite a satisfying read. And while this storyline doesn’t normally appeal to me and I didn’t even like the heroine too well, there were elements in this book that had me smiling,…
Susan Johnson is famous for her footnotes. Legendary Lover has only six footnotes and none are particularly interesting or esoteric. Susan Johnson is famous for her sex scenes. Legendary Lover has a whole lot more more than six sex scenes and none of them are particularly sexy or erotic. Jack Fitz-James, the Marquis of Redvers,…
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