Pinot and Pineapple Lumps, the fourth book in Jay Hogan’s Southern Lights series, is a deeply emotional story about dealing with loss, healing from trauma, and fighting to be what and who you are, and for what you want. One of the protagonists is Kurt Sharpe, brother of Ethan from Powder and Pavolva (book one…
How to Start a Scandal is the second book in Madeline Martin’s The London School for Ladies series. I have not read the previous one, but I’ll definitely be checking it out after reading this one. Seth Sinclair, Earl of Dalton, returns from war a broken man suffering from PTSD. He has recently inherited a title and…
Have you ever finished a romance novel and needed a few moments of quiet reflection before you can rejoin ‘the real world’ again? Time to sit and savor the pleasures of a well written story? If you haven’t – or, if you’re eager to do it again – I recommend you read Fair as a…
Truths I Never Told You is the latest offering from Australian author Kelly Rimmer. It’s the deeply evocative story of one woman’s quest to understand not only her past but the ways in which that past affects the life she’s currently living. Once I started reading, I hated putting the book down, and actually managed…
Christmas With His Wallflower Wife is the sixth and final book in Janice Preston’s two trilogies featuring two generations of the Beauchamp family, and it focuses on Alex, younger son of the Duke of Cheriton and his struggle to find out the truth of his mother’s death almost two decades earlier. If you’ve read any…
Spoiler alert: The Hazard and Somerset: A Union of Swords series picks up after the events detailed in Criminal Past (Hazard and Somerset, #6), and there will be spoilers for that series in this review. Picking up three months after the nightmarish events of Criminal Past, The Rational Faculty is a novel in three overlapping…
Dirty Letters works as a good romance and a good character study, but had some annoying flaws that kept it far away from the higher grades. Which is too bad, because I definitely think parts of it are worth a read, and the style of writing is excellent. With the encouragement of her psychiatrist, Luca…
Talia Hibbert’s A Girl Like Her was one of my favorite books in 2018. I initially doubted the story could or would appeal to me – as I mentioned in my review, it featured a heroine alternately described as rude, awkward, and, according to everyone in town, bad news. But I was completely won over…
A smile and a tear – that’s what you’ll produce as Talia Hibbert scores another win with Work for It, the angsty but deeply romantic story of two men who fall in love in spite of their emotional scars. Olu Keynes is a tart-tongued but handsome man who has been numbed emotionally thanks to a…
Flashed is a delicious, slow-burning wish fulfillment slice of romance of the highest order. Beauty and the Beast with a skosh of Cinderella, it’s comfortable yet spicy, heartbreaking yet gladdening. It will be a delicious bit of catnip for anyone who’s willing to be enchanted by its embrace. Former soccer player, book cover model, stripper…
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