Tracy Grant’s newest release, Daughter of the Game, was not a keeper for me, but I did find it intriguing enough to seek out her backlist, and I’m glad that I did. Rightfully His was a most engaging read – exquisitely plotted, full of interesting, multi-dimensional characters, and drenched in moral conflict. If you’re looking…
When was the last time you read a book that left you laughing, smiling, and overall feeling great? I hadn’t had one of those books in a while – until I picked up Stephanie Bond’s latest. I Think I Love You is the story of a dysfunctional Southern family whose secrets are finally catching up…
With one hand of cards Alden Granville-Strachan, Viscount Gracechurch, has lost everything: his estates, his money, even his clothes. He has nothing left to lose when he’s offered a wager by Lord Edward Vane: if he wins he regains all he’s lost, plus five thousand pounds. If he loses he not only loses everything, but…
The third and final book in the Sevenwaters trilogy, Child Of The Prophecy is full of the same lush and beautiful poetry that characterized the first two volumes and will leave readers wanting more from this talented new author. This enthralling and bittersweet story focuses on Fainne, daughter of the sorcerer Ciaran, a seventh son…
Mary Alice Monroe’s The Beach House is profoundly moving, from the short prologue in which a woman feels sorrow and regret about her relationships with her now-grown children, to the final pages in which hope replaces sorrow. Caretta Rutledge has been asked to visit her mother, Lovie, in their Lowcountry cottage at the beach. Though…
This book wasn’t perfect. There was a thing or two that I didn’t love, and perhaps a few more that might bother others. But there was no doubt in my mind that The Edge Of Heaven was a keeper, despite those little imperfections. The plot was compelling, the love story moving, and I didn’t want…
Texas! Chase was my first keeper. It was also the first book I ever re-read. It has everything I require in a keeper: a strong heroine, a sexy if slightly tortured hero and realistic problems – plus emotion, humor, hot love scenes, and absolutely wonderful secondary characters. Even though this is the second book in…
We all know those writers who recycle their heroes. And our opinions of those writers are almost solely based on whether we like – or don’t like – her particular trademark guy. Lisa Kleypas is a different kind of writer, one with an amazing ability to create achingly real heroes who virtually all vary dramatically…
How many books have you read where the hero is calling the heroine “dearest” and “my love” at one point, and then a hundred pages later is swearing, “So help me God, I never want to see you again”? And how many times have you found either the deep love or deep hate hard to…
I knew going in – and I hope this is no surprise to anyone, considering the fame the book and movie have gained over the last 30 years or so – that this story was not going to have a HEA. I’d never seen the movie, never read this story before, and only knew there…
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