To this day, if you want a quickie divorce, you go to Reno. Six weeks of residency and bingo-bango: freedom. This is what our Depression-era heroines do in Six Weeks in Reno, hoping to divorce their lousy spouses and move on with their lives. It’s a very flawed book but parts of it do sing. …
Being an old fogie, I’ve never heard the term “Rizz” – which is this month’s TBR Challenge prompt – but fortunately, our hostess-with-the-mostest, Wendy the Superlibrarian, was kind enough to explain that it’s slang for “charisma”. So I went looking for a book featuring a charmer or a rogue or a roguish charmer, and settled…
I do like a well-done second-chance romance, so I’m pleased to be able to say that H.L. Day’s latest comtemporary, Never Too Late, is exactly that – a charming and satisfying second-time-around slow-burn love story involving a real commitment to fixing what went wrong, honest communication and personal growth. Finn Prescott and Cillian King have…
In Scot and Bothered, Alexandra Kiley’s follow-up to 2024’s Kilt Trip, we meet Brooke Sinclair, who left the University of Edinburgh under a cloud seven years earlier and has only recently returned. She’s co-writing a memoir for her dear friend and erstwhile mentor, Mhairi McCallister, who founded the Skye Trail, a famous and gruelling eighty-…
I was pleased when I learned that Fearne Hill would be returning to Rossingley – this time for a series of historical romances set in the early nineteenth century. To Tempt a Troubled Earl is the first of a four book set, and tells the story of how Henry Orlando Fitzwilliam Albert Duchamps-Avery, eleventh Earl…
Spies, lies & allies are what Midnight on the Scottish Shore, a rollicking ride into German espionage and British Counter Intelligence, is all about. Cilla van der Zee had not expected her mission to be so hard. As the sister of a Dutch Nazi, it should have been easy to gather information on the group…
Count My Lies is the kind of psychological thriller that reminds you why compulsive books are a gift. There’s nothing quite like tearing through pages, utterly engrossed, as tension builds and secrets unravel. And for a while, this one delivers. Sloane Caraway, a chronic liar whose many, many small deceptions usually serve no greater purpose…
The death of their mother forces two sisters to confront some hard truths about their lives, their relationships, and their pasts in Julia Kelly’s The Dressmakers of London. Sylvia Shelton Pearsall has married up. All the lovely things life can give one – a beautiful home, fashionable clothes, the right kind of friends – she…
Resting on the fine fault line between old skool and new skool, between drama and comedy, is The Trouble with Anna, a readable mixed bag with a lovable heroine and a hero who loves her but could do with some better listening skills. Overall, it’s a fun read. Lady Anna Reston does not care for…
This one opens with a bang! A reporter for a TV crime series and a police detective hide-out in a Louisiana fishing shack while they try to solve a murder that happened on the night of a blood moon. I would have liked a little more romance but it’s a good mystery that kept me…
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