Description: Aidan Dougal is alienated from his family, and he’s convinced he brings destruction to everything and everyone he touches. For such a man, intimacy is impossible and marriage out of the question…until a gentle woman with delicate beauty and mysterious enchantments turns his cool composure into red-hot passion…. Read more »
Tag: historical romance
The Peculiar Case of Lord Finsbury’s Diamonds, by Stephanie Laurens
Review: The Peculiar Case of Lord Finsbury’s Diamonds is a novella featuring Barnaby Adair and his wife Penelope (nee Ashford) and Inspector Stokes and his wife Griselda, all characters from 2008’s Where the Heart Leads. Laurens has long planned a series of historical mystery-cum-romances involving Barnaby and Stokes, and the… Read more »
Sometimes a Rogue (Lost Lords #5), by Mary Jo Putney (review)
Sometimes a Rogue Series: Lost Lords #5 on August 27, 2013 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Not Quite a Wife, Not Always a Saint Sometimes. . . Even the most proper young lady yearns for adventure. But when the very well bred Miss Sarah Clarke-Townsend impulsively takes the… Read more »
Early Review: The Arrangement, by Mary Balogh
The Arrangement by Mary Balogh Series: Survivors’ Club #2 Published by Dell on 2013-08-27 Genres: Historical Romance Format: Paperback Source: Goodreads giveaway Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Proposal, The Escape, Only Enchanting, Only a Promise Also by this author: The Proposal, The Escape, Only Enchanting, The Heart… Read more »
In the Dragon’s Eye: Sometimes a Rogue, by Mary Jo Putney
In the Dragon’s Eye is where I share the books I’ve got my acquisitive eye on: the ones I’m really excited about and hope to add to the hoard. Description: Sometimes. . . Even the most proper young lady yearns for adventure. But when the very well bred Miss Sarah… Read more »
The Mystery Woman, by Amanda Quick
The Mystery Woman by Amanda Quick Series: Ladies of Lantern Street #2 Published by Putnam on April 23, 2013 Genres: Romantic suspense, Paranormal romantic suspense, Historical Romance Pages: 357 Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Crystal Gardens, Otherwise Engaged Also by this author: Crystal… Read more »
Four in Hand, by Stephanie Laurens (review)
A light, frothy Regency-era romp. Max has many of the characteristics of a typical Laurens hero: he’s a rake in his 30s, handsome, confident. . . definitely an alpha male. But he may have met his match — literally — when he unexpectedly becomes guardian to not one but four… Read more »
Early Review: The Taming of Ryder Cavanaugh, by Stephanie Laurens
Book description: The Honorable Miss Mary Cynster always gets what she wants. As the last unwed Cynster of her generation, she is determined to remain in charge of her life and of the man she will marry. At the very bottom of her list of potential husbands is Ryder Cavanaugh, the… Read more »
Release Day Review: The River of No Return, by Bee Ridgway
The River of No Return Series: River of No Return #1 on April 23, 2013 Add to Goodreads In Bee Ridgway’s wonderfully imaginative debut novel, a man and a woman travel through time in a quest to bring down a secret society that controls the past and, thus, the future…. Read more »
Ten Reasons to Stay, by Sabrina Jeffries (advance review)
In “Ten Reasons to Stay,” previously published in the anthology The School for Heiresses, lessons go far beyond etiquette and needlepoint. Eliza Crenshawe’s lesson is to look before she leaps. But when she discovers that her new guardian plans to marry her off without so much as a Season, she… Read more »