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  • What Phoebe Wants

    I planned on giving this book a slightly better grade, but after waiting a week to work on the review, I sat down in front of my computer and could not remember what the book was about. In fact, I could not remember the book at all. I knew there was a book to review,…

  • Whose Child?

    Whose Child? is a surprisingly effective family drama that hits all the right emotional notes. For readers who enjoy the kind of quietly moving story that really touches the heart, this is a good one. When Lexie Jacobs agreed to be a surrogate for her friend David Mitchell, she didn’t know the truth about David’s…

  • Wedding Bell Blues

    Wedding Bell Blues is a rather nice story about an intelligent young woman striking out on her own, and finding a little love on the way. There’s nothing exceptional about it, and the hero is a bit dim, but I thought our heroine’s journey was worth reading. Moni Lawrence is a small-town girl whose beloved…

  • The Color of Death

    I have nothing against a predictable novel of romantic suspense. Sometimes there’s a perverse kind of comfort in knowing exactly how the story will unfold – a glamorous setting, the initial clash of the feisty heroine and the color-outside-the-lines law enforcement hero eventually flaming into great sex, psychopathic bad guys, and, of course, the heroine…

  • The Barkin Emeralds

    The Barkin Emeralds is presumably Nancy Butler’s last Signet Regency, as she’s moving on to larger single title romances. But though this may say Regency on the spine, it really doesn’t read like one. This is no comedy of manners or ton drama. It takes place on a small island in the Hebrides, and the…

  • One Eye Open

    One Eye Open, the new werewolf romance by Karen Whiddon, is a book that walked the thin line between getting a recommendation and not. It’s a flawed book, but every once in a while it would become good enough that it raised my opinion of it. And then it would remind me of what I…

  • Jane’s Warlord

    I’ll admit I chose Ms. Knight’s Berkley debut because of the title. How could I not? A title character named Jane who has her very own warlord? Shallow reasons aside, I’m glad I gave Jane’s Warlord a shot. Though it’s a bit of a mixed bag, I do look forward to reading this author’s next…

  • Night’s Landing by Carla Neggers

    This had nearly everything I enjoy in a romantic suspense novel; it was fast-paced, intriguing and the characters were engaging. My only quibble was that because it took place in a short period of time, the romance was somewhat rushed. Sarah Dunnemore is an historical archaeologist; her job involves researching and preserving historical sites, not…

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