Since the romance novel world has been glutted with vampires and other paranormal creatures, it’s been a while since I’ve read one featuring the once ubiquitous feisty Regency chick. The title character of Grace is Grace Ackerly – one of a family of eccentric sisters. Hang the wallpaper gentle readers, we are off to Regency-land….
A Gentle Rain is a pleasing blend of contemporary romance and women’s fiction and is a delightfully heartwarming story of a woman’s struggle to find herself after her world is turned upside down and finding love along the way. Plus, it’s set in the south and I’m always a little partial to a southern setting…
Be warned: reading Never Without You…Again by Francine Craft may make you hungry. The author describes the complete menus for a Southern Sunday dinner, a morning after breakfast, and a dinner in New Orleans among others. I can appreciate author who enjoys a good meal. Hunter Davis has returned to Crystal Lake, Virginia. Divorced, he…
When it comes to New Age stuff, color me skeptical. I know my astrological sign, but I haven’t read my horoscope in years. Whenever a character in a novel begins to spout the woo woo stuff, my usual reaction is to roll my eyes and curl my lip. However, I really enjoyed Forecast, featuring psychic…
A Jeep in the El Salvadoran jungle is not the most typical place for two people to fall in love, but that’s where it happens in Tara Janzen’s On The Loose. This novel is fast-paced and suspenseful, but falls short on several points. Four months after an incredible night with socialite Honey York, C. Smith…
In My Wildest Fantasies has one of the more unusual premises for a new series in which four sons of an aristocratic family must wed: they believe their father to be mad. The Duke of Pembroke has indeed gone around the bend, spending his time moving plants around in the garden to save them from…
A Town Called Christmas is a story that, with minor adjustments, could probably take place any time in the past sixty years. A jilted naval pilot visits the hometown of a friend over the holidays and falls for the friend’s pregnant sister. Sounds like something Hollywood would have produced in the 1940’s. The story has…
Those who have missed Regency trads may well embrace Julia Justiss’s latest novel. While a slight touch more sensual than many trads, its tone and plotting have much in common with some of the Regencies I used to adore. In Rogue’s Lady, Justiss tells the sweet tale of a reforming rake and a musician’s daughter,…
The Parfit Knight by Stella Riley (writing as Juliet Blyth) is an old favorite. Rereading it for this review, I was delighted to find it as charming as I did twenty years ago when it was published. In the prologue, the author describes an accident: a girl plays catch with her brother in a country…
There are any number of books where the hero has to fight potential rivals in order to win his lady love’s affection. In Baby, It’s Cold Outside, it’s not the Other Man Colin Reeves has to vanquish in order to win Emily Stanfield’s affections – it’s the entire town of Tall Pines. Tall Pines is…
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