I’ve slowly been inching away from historical romance novels in recent years, but authors like Mia Vincy keep me coming back. Although the rich-duke-falls-for-poor-spinster story has been told many times, in Vincy’s hands it feels fresh and exciting as A Scandalous Kind of Duke unfolds. Leopold Halton, the Duke of Dammerton, and Juno Bell have…
Zoe York’s Fearless at Heart is the fourth book in her Kincaids of Pine Harbour series, a spinoff series from her Pine Harbour series. It’s got one of my favourite tropes – a second chance romance for a couple that were together as teenagers – and coming on the heels of Wild at Heart which was…
In this lovely, Sweden-set short story, Jolie Flynn returns to the island of Öland for her aunt’s funeral and to take care of her estate. In the airport, she encounters her first love, Mattias, now a father of five, who remembers her aunt and comes to Öland to stay next door to Jolie. Their second-chance…
Get your holiday season off to a strong start with the fabulous debut novel, The Matzah Ball. For the last decade, Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, daughter of one of the world’s most prominent rabbis, has made a living as Christmas romance novelist Margot Cross. The job has been ideal for her – it allows her to work…
I loved everything about Mimi Matthew’s Gentleman Jim – the set-up, the principal characters, the pacing and tension, the swoony, second chance romance (le sigh) – and I was prepared to give it a DIK. But then I read the epilogue. Oh dear. Ms. Matthews makes casual reference to the happy ever after of a…
Mimi Matthews’ Gentleman Jim reminds one of a mid-Regency The Count of Monte Cristo, featuring as it does a poor sailor’s son who assumes a fresh identity and seeks romance with the woman he’s always loved after being unjustly accused of a crime. It’s a fairly engrossing ripper of a tale, and Matthews, as always,…
This book was my introduction to Jill Shalvis, and boy was it a doozie. In a good way. The Summer Deal (fifth in the Wildstone series) sucked me in from the first page and charmed me until the last. I love that there was not only one great love story, but two; add to that…
I’m a fan of second chance romances, especially when they feature teenage romance/first love that went awry. That’s the plot of Amanda Weaver’s Love Around the Corner, the third story in her Romano Sisters series. I haven’t read the first two, but after reading this one, they will definitely go on my to-read shelf! Gemma…
I loved Fix Her Up, book one in the Hot and Hammered series. That was a pleasant surprise since my relationship with Tessa Bailey is hit or (mostly) miss. I never know how I’m going to feel at the end of one of her novels. But Fix Her Up was great. Reader, it featured a…
Love Her or Lose Her is the second book in Tessa Bailey’s Hot & Hammered series. A love story about a marriage on the rocks and about growing into who you were always meant to be, this novel is fun, sweet, intense and heartwarming. It stands very well on its own; Georgie and Travis from…
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