Lord of Misrule is a tale of revenge and dark love set in the Elizabethan era. The heroine, Catrienne Lyly, born of noble blood, has grown up a street urchin after seeing her beloved family killed in a political plot. The hero, Nicholas D’Avenant, is a scandalous nobleman working as a spy for his Queen….
Just One Kiss is not a sweet and gentle love story. No way. It is the uncompromising story of tortured Morgan O’Connor and his stalwart Lady, Elizabeth Stanton. This lovely Englishwoman comes to Boston in search of her almost-fiancé, Nathaniel. Instead, she meets his older brother, Morgan. Morgan, raised to be responsible for both himself…
Highland Flame is the story of the Laird of the clan MacGowan, a tempestuous flaming-haired beauty named The Flame, and her supposed rival, Roderic Forbes, the Rogue. She kidnaps him believing his clan is responsible for murder and poaching. Ravishingly strong, but horribly mistreated in her youth, she fights the growing attraction to her captive….
The Scottish Bride by Peggy Hanchar was just too difficult and too unpleasant a book for this reviewer to enjoy reading. Lillias McGinnis’s horrible adventure begins at age 9. Her father beheaded, her mother cowering in a convent, Lillias is married off to the son of the man she believes killed her father. Iain MacLeod,…
Amanda Quick’s hard-covered Medieval, Mystique, has been released in paperback form. Quick (a pen name for writer Jayne Ann Krentz) can always be counted on to write compelling, easy-to-read historicals, although her breezy, humorous style lends itself better to the Regency period than the Middle Ages. Quick can always be counted on to write a…
The summary on the back cover of Always To Remember ends with the statement that “sometimes love – like courage – whispers instead of shouts.” That is how I will remember this book. It is filled with small moments. There is no feisty heroine and no arrogant hero. There are simply two wounded people brought…
Simply put, Lynna Banning’s Western Rose is a charming, heart-warming, tear-wrenching read that will engage the reader from the first to the last. It’s a re-make of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew with lots of western flair. The hero, Jake Bannister, needs land with access to water to save his drought-parched ranch. He is offered…
Lion’s Legacy is the fitting finale to a Scottish medieval trilogy written by Suzanne Barclay. This book is a quick, but exciting romance that sets treachery and betrayal against the wildness and isolation of Scotland. Set in the 1300’s, the trilogy explores the trials and tribulations of the Carmichael, Sutherland and MacLellan clans. The first…
Julia Quinn, who debuted as a romance author with the quite splendid Splendid, has written its not-quite-as-splendid follow-up, Dancing At Midnight. Set in the Regency period, the book opens with Lady Arabella Blydon, our beautiful bluestocking heroine, visiting the country estate of her cousin Emma and Emma’s husband Alex (the heroine and hero of Splendid)….
With strong measures of intrigue, danger, true love, and meddling relatives, Stella Cameron whips up a book with more substance than many other trifles set in and around the Regency period. Nothing and no one is as it seems, and a strong-willed spinster is about to stir the pot and bring things to a boil….
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