Gina Wilkins has been an auto-buy comfort read for me for years. Her books tend to focus on people with real lives and complicated families. Finding Family, a sequel to The Bridesmaid’s Gifts, has many of these characteristics and did not disappoint. After living in a small apartment for years, Dr. Mark Thomas moved into…
There’s a reason I’m attracted to Harlequin Blaze titles, and it’s not the sex; it’s the settings. They are more likely to be unusual, urban, and contemporary (in the truest sense of the word). French Kissing is set in Paris during fashion week – give me that over a ranch any day. Kimi Renton looks…
As a warning to those who abhor shopworn plots, this story has a Big Mis and a (sort of) secret baby. Those who are okay with these plot devices, however, may still find The Bride’s Baby to be a less than stellar story. Sylvie Smith is an event organizer in charge of billionaire Tom McFarlane’s…
72 Hours is a thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat wondering if the hero and heroine would actually be alive at the end of the book. The book begins with Parker McCall, an agent for a covert U.S. anti-terrorist agency, racing for his life through the streets of Paris. Just as…
In The Soldier’s Homecoming, Donna Alward tackles the tried and true secret baby plot with unusual sensitivity and a minimum of histrionics. The restraint with which she tells her story gives it a realism and a poignant quality I have seldom found in these plotlines. Unfortunately, a heroine with some growing up to do mitigates…
When I began reading Putting It To The Test, I worried about the book’s premise: a sex survey in the workplace to determine placement on a much sought-after assignment. Although this unbelievable premise sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, I actually was able to suspend that part of reality enough to enjoy the book….
I have to give Shaken and Stirred credit for one thing: It has one of the most believable plots I’ve ever seen in a Harlequin Blaze. All too often, the Blaze stock-in-trade seems to be an outlandish plot that exists solely to give the hero and heroine a reason to get hot and heavy. In…
–CAUTION: SECRET BABY AHEAD. WATCH OUT FOR BIG MISUNDERSTANDINGS– I know, I know. What did I think I was getting when I read the plot description? Optimistically, I still went with it like that ex-boyfriend you keep going back to because you think he just might have changed. Only to realize too late that he…
Janice Kay Johnson is one of my few auto-buy category romance writers. Snowbound not only reinforces her status, it moves the book to the top of my list for the author. The book begins with a vivid, terrifying drive through the Cascade Mountains. Fiona MacPherson, a teacher at a private high school in Portland, is…
I try to stay away from romance novels with titles such as the one here. But having read and enjoyed a another romance by Liz Fielding (Reunited: Marriage in a Million), I decided to give The Sheikh’s Unsuitable Bride a try. I’m glad I did. Diana Metcalfe is a single mother, living in London, with…
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