Here’s something you may not know about Carla Kelly: She has a BA in Latin American History and an MA in Indian Wars history. Which makes her pretty much the perfect person to write this book; it is about an Indian War which takes place in 17th Century New Mexico. But it is more than…
The old maxim that you can run but you can’t hide is the premise to Holby’s new series. A bitter, self-deprecating hired gun with a heart of gold takes the identity of a preacher traveling to his new congregation because the dying preacher tells him to “Feed my sheep.” Since the outlaw has been shot…
Uniqueness is a highly valued trait amongst some romance readers. With so many historicals taking place in the same 10 year span of history in the same parts of England among the same social class, it is a breath of fresh air when I come across a good story in a different era and setting….
Just as she didn’t in the previous books, Levine doesn’t romanticize or sugarcoat life on the American frontier in the latest of her Men of Defiance series. Neither Sarah, a white woman who was kidnapped, abused, and repeatedly raped by a Sioux warrior, nor Logan, owner of a number of trading posts, walk lightly through…
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Thank God for digital publishing, and authors willing to make the transition. For years this 1996 RITA winner has been out of print, but last year Ms. Guhrke released this tale of an Irish boxer and a Southern lady electronically, and I finally read it a…
The American West was a rough and tumble place where children on farms grew up fast, accepting huge responsibilities often before they were physically or emotionally ready to do so. While they might complain like many young people do, they worked hard because they had to. The Matthew of the title is a twenty-five-year-old who…
Catherine Anderson takes a romance staple and draws it out in this novel until readers will want to stomp it out of its misery. An orphaned, unmarried woman raising a child pretends to be married and pretends the child is hers, not her deceased sister’s, and takes these lies to unbelievable lengths in Lucky Penny….
Reading this book is the fictional equivalent of watching a particularly uninspired Rube Goldberg machine. The plot is so mechanical that I could nearly hear the wheels and ratchets moving it from point to point. And these aren’t new stops but so clichéd that the machine just seems to chug on by itself. When Second…
A hero who ends up unconscious on a beach after a storm encounters a beautiful maiden, her little brother, and their strange house crafted from an upside down ship. It almost sounds like Shakespeare’s Tempest – except it’s really not that interesting. O mediocre new world with such uninteresting things in’t. Flynn O’Rourke heads out…
In 1859 West Kansas Territory, the half Native American and half Caucasian hero of this book is about to hang because he stole a horse—no matter that he was really reclaiming his own horse. He’s saved by a woman who’s half Chinese and half Caucasian. Sounds promising, right? So how could a writer not produce…