The Night Before Christmas

There is a staff review of this book as well This month we read an old favorite of Linda’s, The Night Before Christmas. This holiday anthology features stories by Victoria Alexander, Sandra Hill, Dara Joy, and Nellie McFather, all with a Santa theme. The Alexander story, Promises to Keep, is about an old woman who…

The Butler Did It

Morgan Drummond, the Marquis of Westhaven returns to his London home after an absence of 5 years to discover his butler has been renting out his home for the Season. When Morgan tries to rid himself of his various tenants, he instead becomes drawn into their lives and finds himself falling in love. The impoverished…

Killing Time by Leslie Kelly

Killing Time is a romance between former college sweethearts who get a second chance at love. Caroline Lamb comes to Derryvillie, Illinois as assistant producer of a reality TV show, Killing Time in a Small Town. When she arrives for an appointment at the local real estate office, she realizes her past has caught up…

Proof/Get Blondie by Justine Davis and Carla Cassidy

Justine Davis’ Proof and Carla Cassidy’s Get Blondie are two of the launch titles in Silhouette’s new Bombshell line featuring “kick-ass” heroines and varying levels of romantic sub-plot. Indeed, interaction between the male and female leads in one of September’s Bombshell titles is minimal. As a teenager Alexandra Forsythe attended Athena, a little known private…

Under a Lucky Star

Derek Whitaker meets and kisses a beautiful woman in a theater, only to have her give him the public cut at a ball. The woman is Cynthia Fitzwilliam, known in the ton as "the Frost Fair" because of her beautiful looks and very detached personality. She has grown up very much under her mother’s thumb,…

Miss Wonderful by Loretta Chase

Loretta Chase’s long awaited Miss Wonderful brings together a seemingly mismatched couple, Alistair Carsington and Mirabel Oldridge. A hero from the Battle of Waterloo, Alistair is embarrassed by the adulation he receives on his return home and works hard to disguise his permanent injury. As a third son, the fashionable dandy has been an expensive…

Irresistible Forces

There is a staff review of this book as well Irresistible Forces is an Alternate Reality Romance anthology comprised of stories from several noted SF and Romance authors. Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold features characters from her Miles Vorkosigan saga, and involves two bodyguards who fall in love during the celebration of Miles’s wedding….

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