The pairing of the rock star and the sexy actress is well-known to most of us; in Consuelo Vasquez’s Leading Lady we catch a glimpse of a similar couple, but one who is struggling to make it to the big time. Mercedes Romero wants her big break. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it’s going to…
I read this book with a pack of post-it notes handy so I could mark striking phrases and images. When the book became very thick from yellow flags sticking out of it, I knew I had to take this one to the Desert Island. Beautiful Stranger is one of the most beautifully written books I…
Supermodel Lilly Lujan’s vacation isn’t going as well as she’d expected. First of all, she’s staying at her manager Gerard’s estate, which means being at his whim and having to deal with annoying male model Antoine; second, she’s been having second thoughts about her career and the modeling contract that will take her to Paris…
Judith Michael’s new book is about a clothing designer who goes to China on a business trip. In just a few weeks, love, and China, change her forever. In the nineteen eighties I traveled on business quite a bit and many of my trips were to China and Asia. For this reason, the premise of…
Picture Perfect has a serious issue at the center of its plot: the sickle cell anemia disease that afflicts far too many African Americans. The central question at the center of this book is, should a young woman in love push aside a chance at happiness because of the disease? Photographer Cassidy Adams leaves Mobile,…
After a hellish marriage that ended three years earlier, Leone Weathers has come into her own as the owner of Soul to Soul, a successful jazz nightclub. Her teenage daughter, Raven, has weathered the divorce and is doing well despite her absentee father. Cole Fleming, Leone’s bandleader and club manager, has filled those shoes admirably…
Thirty-four year old Mya Williams’ romantic relationships suffer from the lack of a positive male role model in her life. Her father has made a habit out of cheating on her mother. Her brother Mark is turning out to be just as much a player as his father. Her 64 year old Uncle Brother has…
For most of its length, Mirror Image is a workmanlike if unspectacular romance, with a healthy dose of mystery. It features elements familiar to any reader of romantic suspense: an everyday person who looks nearly identical to a well-known celebrity, a bad guy who is stalking that celebrity and fixates on the lookalike, and of…
The plot in Cappuccino in the Winter is fresh from the headlines: Hackers break into financial institutions with the potential to bring the planet to its knees. However, much of the freshness of the plot gets stuck in the clichéd characters and stop-and-go pace of much of the book. Alayna Alexander is furious. She’s an…
Legacy is a contemporary romance with some suspense thrown in. The “legacy” is an unusual will that forces the hero and heroine of the novel to live and work together for a year. The characters and plot are pleasant enough, but also a little banal. Although the plot picks up a little toward the end…
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