With Lost Calling, Evelyn Vaughn gets Bombshell’s new Madonna Key continuity series off to a very strong start. Fans of Vaughan’s Grail Keepers series will no doubt enjoy seeing how she uses several secondary characters from that series as her focus for this novel. New readers, however, will not be left out. This book stands…
This baseball-themed romance, set in Florida just after the World Series, is a sweet story of a couple who have always come together as rebound sex partners, but now they each realize that they want more from their relationship. The bulk of the story comes from each of them trying to decide how to confess…
There are very few books on which I am willing to spend hardcover prices. Although I am a dedicated fan of this author, would I have spent hardcover price on this book? I’m sorry to say no. While I enjoy Kenyon’s Dark Hunter novels, they can be hit and miss, and this one isn’t the…
After reading a string of light romances, it was a definite turn in the opposite direction to read The Code of Love, a somber story of intrigue set in both France and England. The Napoleonic conflict is its central theme, with Napoleon as an actual character and the unease and misery of the French as…
The Dangerous Debutante, part of the Romney Marsh series, centers on Morgan Becket, the family’s wild child. As the book opens, Morgan is going to London to have a Season sponsored by her brother Chance ( A Gentleman By Any Other Name) and his bride Julia. The consensus of the Beckets is that Morgan’s season…
You can count on Linda Howard for a lot of things and one of them is that the author certainly doesn’t repeat herself! With this compulsive page-turner, Linda Howard turns her immense talents to telling a tale of a small, isolated town under siege by unknown forces. A tale of group psychology and dynamics almost…
The particular combination of mystery and romance in Sins of Midnight is unfortunately an uneasy one, and the book is filled with characters who aren’t especially memorable. Ultimately, this one’s not worth the trip. Jillian Daventry is the daughter of a marquis, but she has a rather shady past. Her mother lived a rather wild…
A brief look into the unpleasant aspects of being a vampire: You’re dead. No matter how you sing and dance, being a vampire means having to die, then rising again in a not-alive form. Now we can argue about the semantics of being ‘undead’, but the fact is, you still pretty much count as a…
Mysteria is an unusual town in the Rocky Mountains where magical creatures of all kinds (and a human or two) live side-by-side. Four veteran paranormal romance authors introduce this unique burg in a better-than-usual anthology fittingly titled Mysteria.
AAR doesn’t usually review Vanity press books; we have too many books from mainstream publishers and too few reviewers to review them to do so. But every once in a while, something completely different will come along and pique someone’s interest. So it was with Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander, subtitled A Bisexual Regency…
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