If you’ve ever read Catherine Coulter, this is vintage good Coulter. Fast paced with humorous dialogue. A definite keeper. The Sherbrooke Bride is the first in the Bride trilogy, and in this reader’s opinion, the best of the bunch. This is the story of Douglas Sherbrooke, the Earl of Northcliff, perhaps the most complex of…
Besides her famous Velvet quartet, there are two stand-alone, medieval novels by Jude Deveraux which I consider to be must reads (and must keeps as well) The Black Lyon and The Taming. These two books are the best I’ve read to strongly show a woman’s patience and understanding in winning the love of a closed-hearted…
If there was ever a time when a Regency James Bond (aka the Marquess of Cainewood) was put to shame by anyone (and a woman yet), it’s in the delightful Julie Garwood comedy of Jade and Caine. Sent by Caine’s brother to protect him from murderers, Jade’s mission is to become Caine’s guardian angel for…
Whenever a group of romance writers turn to the subject of influential books, certain writers and books come up over and over again. Regency writers will pick out Georgette Heyer. Romantic suspense writers point to Mary Stewart and Victoria Holt. Western historical romance writers often confess an early love of Louis L’Amour and Zane Gray….
I first read Jill Barnett’s Bewitching when it came out a few years ago. I loved it then. When I reread it to do this review, I loved it even more. It is a historical romance with a twist – a supernatural twist woven so skillfully into the plot of the story that it actually…
I first read Then Came You in 1993, shortly after discovering romance, and it is one of the reasons I fell in love with the genre. Different than most of the romances I’d read, it featured a heroine more tortured than the hero, a so-called “fallen” woman with a wicked reputation. Perhaps I fell in…
Mattie Sharpe has met the perfect man – Hugh Abbott. Unfortunately, he’s engaged to her sister, Arial. Mattie is not discouraged; she knows her sister well. The engagement will not last – all Mattie has to do is wait. True to form, Hugh and Arial break up. The night before Hugh is scheduled to return…
Velvet Bond is my favorite Medieval Romance. It isn’t filled with Court intrigue or warriors and battles. Instead it is simply the story of an incredible romance between a man and a woman amidst the country setting of medieval Britain. Lord Raynor and Lady Elizabeth are forced into marriage by edict of the King after…
Castles is Julie Garwood at her best. It is witty, sexy, romantic, and has enough danger to keep things moving quickly. In fact, the only thing I don’t love about this book is that I finished it too quickly. But that’s alright too, because I’ve read it over and over and over again since first…
Although All We Hold Dear was reviewed in Romantic Times and was nominated for a Romantic Times award, the spine of this book, a re- issue in paperback of last year’s hardcover, does not refer to the book as a romance. I do not believe it to be a romance either. True, it is romantic…
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