Jo Goodman hasn’t published a historical romance in over five years and more’s the pity. Her work, often dark, always smart, and peopled with leads that feel vividly real, has garnered ten DIKs at AAR as well as a slew of Bs. One Forbidden Evening, first published in 2006 (Goodman has republished much her earlier…
Jennifer Ryan is back with the second installment of her Dark Horse Dive Bar series, Wilde for You, a subtle romantic suspense wrapped up in a small-town cowboy romance. It’s the first Ryan novel I’ve read, and I liked this standalone enough to delve into her backlist as soon as I was finished. Layla Brock…
A lovely, muscular novel that takes a look at life in Louis Comfort Tiffany’s workshop during its late 1800s heyday, The Tiffany Girls finally gives a voice to the unsung designers and artists who helped put together the glass king’s most famous pieces. Responsible widow Clara Walcott Driscoll is running the women’s division of Tiffany’s…
The Marriage Season is excellently researched and a fun, if somewhat sedate, Regency. Widowed thanks to the war of 1812, country mouse Sybella Lovatt is out on the marriage mart again, but not for herself. Instead, she’s searching the ton for a spouse for her younger sister, Lucie, who also happens to be her ward….
A Love By Design is a fabulous final instalment in Elizabeth Everett’s The Secret Scientists of London series, giving us the stories of Margaret and George, and a real series high point, as we get a lot of tension and a whole lot of fun in the process. This is a can’t-miss for historical romance…
In romance novels, the heroine is almost always under thirty. When older women – those over fifty – appear in romance, it’s usually as a secondary character who, if she’s very beautiful and has either a fortune or a heart of gold, might be lucky enough to have a lover of her own. Romance novels…
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…
Harper St. George knows how to write spine-tingling romances that make you feel like you’re soaking in a warm bath while sipping from a glass of delicious red wine. The Lady Tempts an Heir is no exception, and will attract anyone who likes brooding men and smart, uncompromising women. Max Crenshaw is an American businessman…
Juliana Ross’s set of interconnected Victorian erotic stories starts out a bit shaky but gets better with each tale. Improper Relations Grade: B- Hannah witnesses her late husband’s cousin Leo in an encounter with a maid and falls into sexual education with him. There are a lot of tropes here, from the ‘teach me’ to…
We were all hoping for a high grade for Devil in Disguise weren’t we? Well, good news friends! This longtime Kleypas fan was well pleased by the story and the romance, and I couldn’t read it fast enough. There are some problems – instalust really isn’t my jam; I think our hero might be skirting…
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