Robert’s Lady marks the very strong debut for romance novelist Nicole Byrd. It features a woman willing to risk everything for a future with the man she loves, though the ending is not completely satisfactory. Robert Manning, Viscount Holt and younger son of the Earl of Stonesbury, was kept a prisoner by the French for…
Before reading Rules of Surrender, I’d have never thought it possible to enjoy a “Sheik on the Thames” romance. And a romance where a bodice is actually ripped? Hah! Somehow, though, Christina Dodd managed to create a fast-paced, darkly humorous romance featuring a hero many may find impossible to like. As for this reviewer, what…
Have you ever read a book that is so simplistic, so inaccurate and so frustrating that it makes you grit your teeth? That’s just what Just Before Midnight is. I’m surprised my teeth weren’t worn down to stubs when I finally turned the last page of this book. Mattie Bright is your average spunky American…
Lord Wynter Ruskin, the hero of Rules of Surrender, is the type of man readers will either love or hate. There’s not much middle ground with this guy. Since he lived for years as a Bedouin in the Middle East, he adopted many of the ways of his adopted Bedouin father. Wynter speaks in poetic…
This month we are reading Devilish, the much-awaited Rothgar book (on sale April 10th) from Jo Beverley. This is the fifth book in the Malloren series and gives us the love story of the Marquess of Rothgar (Beowulf Malloren) and Diana, Countess of Arrandale. Rothgar was first introduced in My Lady Notorious and has played…
Jove has apparently halted purchases of new manuscripts for the Time Passages line, which suggests that the line itself is on the verge of cancellation. It may be that there are not enough quality time travel stories out there to carry a whole line devoted to them; however, the quality of this particular book, Elizabeth…
I found reading The Dangerous Lord to be like eating an almost-good casserole – the type where you like the rice, cheese, and chicken, but have to eat around the olives. The book has some nice characters and some great scenes, but some of the plot elements are just a bit off. Felicity Taylor is…
Either Johanna Lindsey has changed her style of writing since 1978 or I’ve grown as a reader since the early 1990’s when I began to read her books. It’s got to be one or the other, or there would be no other explanation for why I’ve enjoyed some of her later books, in particular, Prisoner…
Regency Sting is a traditional Regency Romance with a few variations. The hero, Jason Hughes is an American, the new Viscount Mainwaring by inheritance, who has never been in England before coming to claim his title. When he arrives, his appearance and manners are a bit rustic, so his aunt Harriet, with both social and…
Lovers of Karen Ranney’s medieval My Beloved will rejoice to find the magic continues in My True Love, the story of Sebastian’s 17th-century descendant, Stephen Harrington. Sheer romance permeates every page of this tale of a Scottish laird’s daughter whose destiny is intertwined with that of the English earl she has known since childhood, yet…
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