This is the third Marguerite Kaye book I’ve read in 2019 and, once again, I am impressed by her mastery of story-telling. Ms. Kaye captivates her readers from the first few pages and keeps the spell going throughout the novel. In The Truth Behind Their Practical Marriage, we begin in Florence, with Estelle Brannagh and…
If you’re going to use a descriptor like ‘sinful,’ in your series title, you better bring the sinfulness. Hard. And if you don’t? Well, you better bring something else. Based on the blurb for The Lord’s Inconvenient Vow, I hoped the ‘something else,’ meant a great opposites attract pairing, and an awkward marriage of convenience. …
An Invitation to a Cornish Christmas is brought to us by Marguerite Kaye and Bronwyn Scott. The stories take place in Porth Karrek, Cornwall during the 1822 Christmas Season and revolve around the same cast of characters. The Captain’s Christmas Proposal by Marguerite Kaye Grade: B+ Sensuality: Warm Captain…
Julia Justiss delivers again with The Awakening of Miss Henley, the first book in her Cinderella Spinsters series. While at school, Emma Henley and her two friends make a pact to eschew the marriage mart and establish a home together as single women performing important charitable and political works. Of course, their families are unaware…
A Midsummer Knight’s Kiss gives Elisabeth Hobbes another solid notch in her quiver of appealing romances. While I liked this one less than her phenomenal last novel, she still produces a fine romance that, even with its problems, will make readers happy. Back when they were kids, Rowenna – Ro – Danby and her cousin…
I’ve always been fascinated by Sommersby-esque stories, where a husband returns from war a changed man, but that gives rise to doubts about who he is. Bronwyn Scott’s Captivated by her Convenient Husband is just such a romance, and while I liked the risk it takes plot-wise, the resolution didn’t quite work for me. The…
I picked up Jenni Fletcher’s Reclaimed by Her Rebel Knight because of the setting (1215, amidst the uprisings by the barons to force King John into signing the Magna Carta). Ultimately, while there are some absolutely wonderful and refreshing rejections of tropes in this book, the setting itself – and more to the point, the…
Secrets of a Highland Warrior is the fourth and final book in the Lochmore Legacy series, in which each instalment has been written by a different author and is set in a different time period. Interestingly, the story began in the Victorian era (with His Convenient Highland Wedding) and then moved back through time so…
History has shown time and again that women have adopted male personae to answer a deep-rooted calling to be doctors, soldiers, priests, and other such jobs strictly restricted to men. Women were meant for house and hearth and babies, not to be striding out into the world dealing with problems and strangers. The heroine of…
In The Highborn Housekeeper, playing Good Samaritan leads to a woman returning to the home she fled twelve years before, to play detective and discover whether or not her father is a traitor. This is the third book in Sarah Mallory’s Saved From Disgrace series, and while it can be read as a stand-alone, readers…
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