Lauri Robinson has been reviewed several times at AAR and received wildly divergent grades. The Captain’s Christmas Homecoming falls somewhere in the middle of our rankings. Emma Leigh (Emily) Ellis has placed herself in a precarious position. After inadvertently introducing her engaged cousin Martha to the man she would elope with, Emma has felt a…
Tempted by Her Outcast Viking is the second book in Lucy Morris’ Shieldmaiden Sisters series and features shieldmaiden Brynhild and former thrall Erik. Long ago Erik and Brynhild were friends, until Erik viciously rejected Brynhild in order to protect her from his father and owner, Ulf. When Brynhild’s younger sister, Helga, is kidnapped, Erik, now…
I really enjoyed the first book Diane Gaston’s Three Soldiers trilogy, Gallant Officer, Forbidden Lady, and I was keen to continue. This trilogy focuses on three soldiers who met in the aftermath of Badajoz, and follows them as they adjust back to civilian life after their experiences in the Napoleonic Wars. Chivalrous Captain, Rebel Mistress…
Second in Sarah Rodi’s Rise of the Ivarssons series, Escaping with Her Saxon Enemy features Lord Ashford – Ash – Stanton and shield maiden Svea Ivarsson. Ash once robbed Svea of her chance for revenge against Lord Crowe, the man who assaulted her and changed her life forever, and she has despised him ever since….
Terri Brisbin’s books usually hit the spot, and while not my favorite by her, Tempted by Her Viking Enemy actually did come close. Even though it’s the last book in the Sons of Sigurd series, it works quite well as a standalone. I had issues with some of the revelations in the suspense plot, but that doesn’t mean I…
Virginia Heath remains a reliable delight, and she opens a brand-new series, A Very Village Scandal – which centers around the lives and loves of the citizens of the English town Whittleston-on-the-Water during the Regency period – with The Earl’s Inconvenient Houseguest. The romance here takes a while to percolate, plus, the book pulls a…
I have a hit/miss relationship with Lara Temple’s books and much to my dismay, The Earl She Should Never Desire is a miss. Is it bad? No. Is it good? Also, no. Friends, it’s fine – but I can only recommend it with reservations. The forbidden love trope – falling in love with your sister’s…
The Iron Warrior Returns is one of a number of medievals I’ve seen slowly making a comeback at Harlequin Historicals (new full-length mass market medievals remain elusive). Unfortunately, it isn’t a good example of the genre. Lord Robert of Penrith, his illegitimate half-brother Piers, and the miller’s children, Morwenna and Brian, were captured during an…
For this second book in her Victorian Era Revelations of the Carstairs Sisters series, Marguerite Kaye returns briefly to her Armstrong family, albeit a generation on, and shows the apple didn’t fall far from the tree in the person of the deceased but obnoxious-from-beyond-the-grave Lord Harry Armstrong. Lady Armstrong’s Scandalous Awakening opens on the day…
The Marquess of Yew Park House, the second in Lotte R. James’ Gentleman of Mystery series , features the titular marquess, Henry Spencer, Marquess of Clairborne, and his neighbor, widow Genevieve de l’Omont. Both are trying to outrun their pasts when they meet, but they learn that is simply not possible as their attraction grows,…
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