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…
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….
In The Last To Die, the sequel to The Fifth Victim, Jazzy Talbot is accused of having a fatal attraction-type relationship with her long-time lover, Jamie Upton, when he is found murdered. Every clue to the killer’s identity points back to Jazzy and she needs the help of her clairvoyent friend Genny (from The Fifth…
A letter from her high school reunion committee forces Jeanne Claire Cassiday to finally confront her high school sweetheart Nate Donneli. Jeanne wants to know why Nate ended their relationship with a curt note. The answer to this question leads Jeanne and Nate to look at their lives, dreams and how their lives are different…
Upon returning home from Waterloo, Lord Anthony Nelthorpe discovers his estate in shambles, his wastrel father chasing doxies down the front stairs, and determines to set his estate to rights. Coincidentally, he happens upon Jenna Fairchild, a woman he gravely offended in the past when he tried to compromise her and force her into marriage….
As widowed Alexandra Alastair compiles a listing of possible second husbands, she wonders whether she should add the new Viscount Stoke to her list. When she hears, through a connecting wall, a villain attempting to hang him, Alexandra races to the rescue and begins an adventure that will turn her staid life upside down. Alex…
There is a staff review of this book as well Where’s My Hero is an anthology of stories by Lisa Kleypas, Kinley MacGregor, and Julia Quinn – all of which feature secondary characters from previous books. Against the Odds by Kleypas features Dr. Linley from Someone to Watch Over Me and Lydia Craven, daughter to…
Nicole Lassiter and Captain Derek Sutherland are natural enemies – he hates her father and she hates him. When Nicole’s father is imprisoned, she takes her father’s ship to sea for the Great Circle Race in hopes of saving his business. A saboteur causes the pair to be thrown together. What follows is a dance…
In Gone Too Far, Navy SEAL Sam Starett travels to Florida to get his estranged wife to sign divorce papers. When he discovers what is apparently her dead body on the floor of her home, he calls contacts Max Bhagat of the FBI – and ends up talking to Alyssa Locke, the woman he still…
Historical romances set in Scotland run a certain gamut: there’s the light and funny kind set in a fantasy Scotland, and there’s the more serious, dramatic kind set in a historically-grounded Scotland. The Destiny by Kathleen Givens is the latter kind, which is good – that’s what I like. But while the book’s history is…
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