“Her isolation, the result of being honest with no one, was beginning to be unbearable… She had never been very good at keeping things to herself, and although she had become a master at it recently, she hated the way it shut her off from other people.” The heroine of Kiss River thinks those words…
Kathryn Shay’s publisher has labeled Trust in Me a romance, but I have a hard time describing it as such. If I had a gun to my head and had to come up with my own label I’d say this one is closer to what’s loosely called Women’s Fiction than anything else. That’s not to…
Of all the romance sub-genres, the one that instills in me both anticipation and dread is the historical Native American romance. Native American men are some of my favorite heroes, but if the story is to come across as realistic, then it most likely contains some gritty elements that make me uncomfortable, history and racial…
Carson Brooks, CEO of Ruisseau Fragrance Corporation, has been shot in the back and may need a kidney transplant. Fortunately for him, he’s just told his chief legal counsel and the closest thing he has to a son, Dylan Newport, about the child he may have fathered twenty-eight years earlier. Dylan is more concerned with…
The very first romance novel I ever read was Shirlee Busbee’s Deceive Not My Heart. It remains my all-time favorite romance, and I still proudly display three older Busbees on my keeper shelf. So when her first contemporary was issued, I literally begged my editor for the chance to review it. Sadly, it wasn’t everything…
I seem to have the same reaction after reading a Luanne Rice novel as I do when I finish watching a Lifetime TV movie I put down the tissue box with a snort of derision at myself for having spent 2+ hours being blatantly (and skillfully) manipulated through a mire of anguish and despair…
Cassandra (Cassie) Richards, who lived in Jamaica for the past 14 years, recently lost her parents and has returned to England to be with her Aunt Chat. The two women, and Cassie’s friend Antoinette, have come to Cornwall to visit Aunt Chat’s friend – the Dowager Lady Royce. Lady Royce’s son Phillip, Earl of Royce,…
Judith O’Brien’s Enter the Hero requires the reader to suspend a good bit of disbelief but manages to be a pretty fun read anyway. Unfortunately, the story tries to cover too much territory; the end result is that what is best about it becomes diluted by what is only marginally entertaining. In 1814 Ireland, Emily…
Getting Lucky is a great big dessert of a book: it’s a blast to consume, but in the end it’s hardly a satisfying meal. Big bad Marine Zach Taylor comes home from his latest mission in South America to find his younger sister Glynnis gone and a sexy blonde in residence. Zach takes one look…
If writing traditional Regency Romances were an Olympic sport, Susannah Carleton would get a 10 for technical proficiency and a 5 for artistic impression. The Marriage Campaign has a lot of excellent details, but because of the short length required in this sub-genre, the details are hastily displayed, quickly referenced and difficult for the reader…
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