Lord Ragsdale is an intelligent and witty man who is bored. He squanders his talents on careless amusements, and surrounds himself with people who have not one half of his insight and wit. His accounts are a mess. His estate is neglected. This fascinating man has no one with whom to hold a worthwhile conversation…
The Maiden’s Heart is a Medieval romance with quite a religious bent. The heroine is devoutly religious, and much of the plot involves Church politics. This gives the book a lot of authenticity, especially as the presence of religion in medieval life is sometimes ignored in romance. Although the heroine gets to be a little…
When I first saw the cover of this book, I thought: Oh, puh-leeze. And indeed, deep, this book is not. However, if you’re looking for something rather frothy and generic, look no further. The Indigo Blade is the tale of a pre-Revolutionary War aristocrat who, by day, is the rather foppish, non-political Max Broderick, but…
There is a very funny song in the stage show Gypsy called You Gotta Have A Gimmick. It played in my head all the time I was reading this book. Merely Married is a story with a gimmick. The gimmick is a very old one and it is almost always fun, especially in historicals and…
Did you ever wonder how King Richard Coeur de Lion came to be released from captivity? England, helped by Robin Hood, gathered a heap of gold, and paid the ransom, right? Not according to Night Fires, a book that provides the creative suggestion that the solution was not a purely monetary one. Queen Eleanor has…
Susan Sizemore’s book, The Price of Innocence, takes place in late Victorian London. Sherrie Hamilton is an American – a widow with an eight-year-old daughter, Minnie. She has come to London with her cousins, Faith and Daisy and her aunt Dora to find husbands for the girls. Sherrie is very wealthy, and wealthy American women…
Charming the Prince is going to be one of my favorite funnies for 1999. I found myself laughing out loud at the antics of the dozen children of Bannor the Bold – a man who can out-fight any enemy – a man who laughs at pain – a man who can besiege a castle while…
“The Price of Innocence is what someone is willing to pay to destroy it.” These are the words that echo in Sherrie Hamilton’s head in the opening passage of The Price Of Innocence. It has been nine years since she has seen the man who rescued her from becoming another man’s slave, only to make…
Before I start this review, I would like to state a personal bias. I am not a reader who is fond of children as main characters in romance novels. I always try to set aside any personal prejudices while reviewing books, but could not for this story, because there was not just one child as…
Never having read any of this author’s previous works, I had no idea what to expect when I opened this book. However, the back blurb indicated the heroine was disguising her identity to defraud a wealthy family. This was not an inspiring summation of the story. Thankfully, although the back blurb was correct in some…
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