Robert Hale, an English publishing house, is reissuing old Traditional Regencies in hardback form. Joan Smith’s Valerie was originally published in the States by Ivy in 1981; its heroine, and her unique voice, holds up very well. Valerie is invited for an extended visit with her eccentric widowed Aunt Louise at her home, Troy Fenners….
Twist is a fast, exciting read, featuring one of the best – and strongest – heroines I’ve encountered in a long time. Abbey has a busy, but lonely, life, with no real friends or relatives. As if that isn’t enough, a serial killer is striking close to her home. But Abbey doesn’t spend her time…
This was a grueling read. I know I’m in trouble when I repeatedly check to see how many pages I have left in a book, something that happened too often while I read The Black Sheep and the Hidden Beauty. I eventually put markers at the 25%, 50% and 75% points. While that didn’t improve…
No Control has a fast paced plot, a totally yummy hero, and a villain who is so sick and twisted she made my flesh crawl. Normally that would spell romantic suspense DIK for sure. If only the heroine hadn’t been so inexplicably secretive and downright TSTL. Lana Hancock and a few friends went to Armenia…
–CAUTION: SECRET BABY AHEAD. WATCH OUT FOR BIG MISUNDERSTANDINGS– I know, I know. What did I think I was getting when I read the plot description? Optimistically, I still went with it like that ex-boyfriend you keep going back to because you think he just might have changed. Only to realize too late that he…
I could sum this book up in one sentence: Unleashing the Storm was a compelling novel, but there was too much sex. Unfortunately, however, I don’t think my editors will find that acceptable. So here’s more. Kira Donovan leads a solitary life of fear, but it’s the only way she knows how to survive. Her…
I picked up Wizard’s Daughter to read as I have always been partial to Catherine Coulter’s Sherbrooke family series and was happy to see so many familiar faces well used in the outset of this book. But some of Coulter’s old magic is definitely missing in this one. At the age of eight, Rosalind de…
Compromised is a light, Victorian-set love story. It marks the debut of author Kate Noble, and for a first book, it’s not half bad. Maximillian, Viscount Fontaine, survives on his intellect. Estranged from his reclusive father and beholden to no one, Max uses his skill with languages to earn just enough to live comfortably. When…
The Devil Inside is Jenna Black’s first urban fantasy (she also writes paranormal romance for a different publisher). The book isn’t perfect, but it’s good – and highly original. Humans offer themselves up as hosts to Demons. Some demons, though, take possession of humans without their consent. This is against the law in the Morgan…
The intriguing introduction to The Privateer held the promise of well-described settings and dynamic characters. Unfortunately, the book soon devolved into a series of clichés and wooden writing. Lark, the daughter of an earl, is thrown into debtor’s prison after her father’s suicide. She is soon rescued by Kingston, whose mother ordered him to find…
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