The Shadowing by Joan Overfield is a very gothic experience. While I found the book engrossing and the heroine interesting, the book’s over-the-top melodrama was a little difficult to take. In the fifteenth century, an evil sorcerer cursed the McCairn lairds with the Shadowing. At some point in their lives, every male member of the…
I love Nora Roberts’ J.D. Robb books, I simply love them. But as for the books she writes under her own name, I find myself blowing hot and cold. Some of them (the Born In series) are on my keeper shelf, some of them (the Stars of Mithra series) I am indifferent to, and some…
One of my favorite novellas of all time is Anne Avery’s A Dance on the Edge. Unfortunately, the poignancy and emotion of that work was nowhere to be found in Fire and Ice, the story of a young woman in the Depression era who returns home in search of her mother’s legacy and finds herself…
Do you sometimes feel like you’re in a romance rut? Are you yearning for a story that steps away from that same old plot? Have I got a book for you! In Forbidden Garden, Tracy Fobes gives us the story of a young widow, Anne Sherwood, who works as a botanical illustrator for Kew Gardens…
Romance readers look to Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte as writers whose books were ancestors to today’s modern romance novels. In addition to these wonderful British ladies, I would like to propose a work by a 19th century American woman writer. This book features a character who was wildly popular and is the prototype of…
My Sweet Folly opens with a series of charming letters from Lt. Robert Cambourne to his cousin’s wife. The correspondence begins almost by accident with Robert writing to his elderly cousin Charles Hamilton about a minor estate matter and being answered by Charles’ lonely twenty year old wife, Folie. Robert and Folie’s initial letters are…
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