Only December by Noelle Adams is a Christmas-themed novella featuring an age-gap romance between a widowed philosopher and a freelance housekeeper. It’s a sweet, low angst read with some spicy scenes but isn’t particularly memorable. Mona is a housekeeper who takes on a variety of jobs at will. Most of them are short term, many…
And Then There Was You is not your typical contemporary romance and is unlike anything Cousens has written before. I’ve loved Cousens’ romcoms and, initially, wasn’t sure what to make of this quirky, unique science fiction romance. I’m so glad I read it! The story explores how the rise of AI is changing our world…
This month’s Change of Plans TBR Challenge prompt led me to Allison Temple’s Honeymoon Sweet, a cute fake relationship contemporary romance in which two guys, both abandoned by their partners while on a week-long Caribbean cruise, end up spending the time together and falling in love. This makes for something of a whirlwind romance, it’s…
Going to a different country for business and deciding to stay indefinitely certainly qualifies as a change of plans, so Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, first in the Maggie Hope series, made a perfect choice for this month’s TBR Challenge. After all, not only does the heroine stay on in England instead of returning to the United States to…
Violet Thistlewaite was once, yes, a villain. OK, technically, she was just the assistant to a dangerous villain, Guy Shadowfade, but still. When she lived at his castle, she was known there as the Thornwitch and she used magic to grow dangerous poisonous plants. However, upon his death, she is ready to turn over a…
Secret Nights and Northern Lights is Megan Oliver’s début novel – a mix of Icelandic travelogue, and second chance romance. Mona Miller has been working at Around the Globe for years. She’s keen to travel overseas but until now she’s been reporting on small-town festivals and local places and missing out on the international gigs….
Duet, the first in Julie Kriss’ Road Kings series, has a sweetheart of a smokin’ hot rock star improbably named Denver who spends much of this slight tale trying to convince Callie, a prickly piano teacher, that he’s the guy for her. If you’re looking for a flawless, gorgeous, brilliant hero who keeps laying his…
Fearne Hill returns to her Regency Rossingley series with book three, To Beguile a Banished Lord, in which Rollo Duchamps-Avery, younger (by three minutes) son of the eleventh earl of Rossingley and very much a chip off the old block, meets his match in the unlikliest of men. Free-spirited, sunny-natured and mischievous, nineteen-year-old Rollo has…
I picked up The Best Christmas Choir Ever by Elizabeth Hrib because the premise sounded interesting and second chance romance is a favorite trope of mine. After reading it I have to say that the heavy layers of grief overshadow the romance, but I enjoyed the warm holiday feelings it evokes and the senior characters…
The Dramatic Life of Jonah Penrose is a rivals-to-lovers romance set in the world of London’s West End theatre scene. It’s a very promising début from author Robyn Green, but although I enjoyed it overall, there are pacing and plotting issues that prevent me from giving it a higher grade, and the use of a…
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