Blythe: Linda, Tina St. John’s been writing for years, and her first three books were DIK’d by AAR. In a way, it’s kind of surprising that I’d never read her before, but Heart of the Flame is the first of hers that I’ve tried. I think part of the reason is that I’m not the…
Linda: Something About Emmaline was just a delight for me, I was engaged from page one. I loved the characters, the banter and the Remington Steele type plot. Blythe: When I read the back of the book, I too thought of Remington Steele. As I was reading it, I decided it was Remington Steele meets…
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…
Linda: This month was a change of pace with two novellas by Alison Kent. I have enjoyed Kent’s category Harlequin’s, in fact Call Me, with its phone sex, is on my keeper shelf. I certainly enjoyed these stories more than the Bombshell books with similar spy scenarios we read earlier this year. Blythe: Phone sex?…
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 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…
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…
Julie Kenner’s The Spy Who Loves Me features Phineas (“Finn”) Teague, a hero who’s dissatisfied with his law career and likes to slip into his alternate, pretend persona of Python, secret agent extraordinaire. When he begins following an attractive woman who he has cast as a villainess, his pretend life and real life collide. The…
Dr. Virginia Waters was sure she was marrying the wrong brother! She wanted quiet, safe Andrew, but he had jilted her after a 6 year engagement. Andrew’s brother, Inspector Zack Bullock, was a Mountie looking for a wife. A wife who would be busy with her own life and leave him alone to pursue his…
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,…
End of content
End of content