With a first half considerably more dynamic than the second, In My Heart marks an auspicious debut for new Avon author Melody Thomas. Also writing under the names Laura Renken and Lori Morgan, the author’s first effort for her new publisher isn’t without flaws, but interesting characters and an unusual setting offer a fair degree…
Ingrid Weaver delivers a poignant romance in the latest Family Secrets book, The Insider, as the story of the mysterious Gideon Faulkner is finally told. In the months after a computer hacker named Achilles committed a daring heist on the World Bank, the world’s economy went into a tailspin. Times are tough everywhere, including the…
While I found The Charmed Sphere a quick and intriguing read, there’s something missing that keeps me from unequivocally recommending it to readers. The kingdom of Aronsdale is at a crossroads. The king is dying and his heir needs a queen. So to the castle of Sun Croft two girls are brought: Chime Headwind and…
Like A Hurricane is a book that doesn’t really start out well, but cultivates a lighthearted charm as it goes along. On page one, our hero is snooping through a dilapidated old beachside hotel called the Mar Brisas Resort, when he spies the heroine’s legs dangling from an elevator shaft. Instant desire overwhelms him, and…
Silent Storm, the second book in Amanda Stevens’s Quantum Men series, is less startlingly original than the first, but it’s a better story overall. With her trademark sense of atmosphere, Stevens weaves a chilling tale that builds nicely on the promise of the first book. An unusually rainy spring brought death and despair to Mission…
I discovered Carolyn Jewel’s first book, Lord Ruin, about a year too late to vote for it as my favorite 2002 Guilty Pleasure. While I agreed with our reviewer that the book had flaws, it was a very memorable debut, and made me anxious to read more by this author. Her newest book, The Spare…
Lorraine Heath’s Smooth Talkin’ Stranger is a slow, intimate character piece. It’s a very familiar, very predictable story, and in many ways it feels like nothing more than a pretty good Harlequin Superromance. But Heath’s gentle storytelling and memorable character moments make it a moving experience all the same. Serena Hamilton had been alone since…
For some people it takes years before they can come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Tallulahland is the story of a young woman who’s been emotionally stuck since her mother’s death four years ago. Tallulah West is the daughter of superstar interior designer Joseph West, and as the story opens she’s…
If I admitted it on a message board, I can admit it in a review: I was intrigued by this book because I could just tell that the heroine and I had something in common. But while I was drawn in by the heroine’s lack of cleavage, the humor is what kept me turning pages….
Sing Me Home is Jerri Corgiat’s first book. It has its good points, most notably a very likable lead couple, and its bad points, especially the hero’s way too eeevil first wife, and an ending that felt rushed. But the good outweighs the bad, and for a debut it’s got promise. Jonathan Van Castle fronts…
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