With her first book, The Runaway Duke, Julie Ann Long showed she could take an oft-told story and make it her own. She does it again with Beauty and the Spy, the first in a new trilogy. Yes, Kit Whitelaw, Viscount Grantham the hero of this book is yet another Regency era spy, but don’t…
Jane Eyre is not a pure romance novel. It’s a complex work combing elements of the coming-of-age story, the roman à clef, the gothic novel, and more. Despite its complexity, though, the heart and soul of Jane Eyre is the passionate love between Jane and her employer, Edward Rochester, and it’s their love story that…
Heiress For Hire is a poor little rich girl story, which can be a really hard to sell. I honestly thought it would be tough to live up to A Date With the Other Side, but Erin McCarthy proved I had no reason to worry; her new book is priceless. This is Amanda Delmar’s book…
Mary Balogh has created some of the most tormented of heroines in modern romance, and Catherine Winters is no exception. When Rex Adams, Viscount Rawleigh, and his friends accompany his twin brother Claude Adams and sister-in-law Clarissa to their country estate for a house party, Mrs. Winters mistakes him for his brother and smiles. This…
You’ve gotta love Gibson’s heroes – they are so realistic that you can reach out and touch them and they are simply such…men! Their combination of attitudes, communication skills, thoughts, and half attempts to see things from a woman’s perspective is very effective. Sex, Lies, and Online Dating delivers just this kind of hero at…
Picking up Anna Jeffrey’s latest, I did not expect to find a DIK within. Although I have enjoyed her previous books, both her heroes and heroines proved a bit too trying at times to qualify as keepers. But I was thrilled to discover within the pages of Sweet Water a pair of well-rounded, irresistible leads,…
This recent collection of stories and essays by Marian Keyes epitomizes my favorite aspect of her writing: her ability to take any situation, from the most mundane to the most depressing, and point out even the smallest kernels of humor. She always manages to do it in an appealing way, so that the reader identifies…
If there’s anything I love, it’s books about how people lived in the past. Since I work at a university library, I see a lot of them, but too many are written in dense jargon. I don’t want to read books that refer to homes, clothing and furniture as “texts”, I simply want to know…
It has been two years since I first read Sleeping Beauty (published in 1998), and as I reread this favorite of mine recently, I found it an even greater delight the second time around. While most romances fade from my memory rather quickly, this is one I clearly hadn’t forgotten and I found myself experiencing…
Like many new writers, Diane Gaston suffered years of rejection before Harlequin’s Mills & Boon published her first novel, The Mysterious Miss M, for the U.K. market in 2004. What is remarkable about that is Gaston isn’t a British romance writer; she’s an American living in Virginia (who now writes under the name Diane Perkins…
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