Cowboy Come Home

For me, Western romances are almost always a gamble; sometimes it’s worth it and sometimes it isn’t. I didn’t find what I was looking for in Cowboy Come Home, which came as a disappointment resulting from an unlikeable hero and a serious lack of momentum. Trey March has never really had anything of his own…

A Waltz at Midnight

A Waltz at Midnight is a short story with an interesting premise of love through letters, even though the general plot is the Cinderella story. I guess it’s as plausible a way to find love as IMs and online ads. Susanna Parkwell is a lady who has fallen down the ranks in American society due…

Belonging by Robin Lee Hatcher

Belonging by Robin Lee Hatcher

According to the Orphan Train official Website, the trains ran in the United States between 1854 and 1929, placing “an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children.” Felicia Brennan Kristoffersen, the heroine of Hatcher’s novel, is the middle of three Chicago siblings who were relocated on an orphan train. The story begins years later after…

Night Hawk by Beverly Jenkins

Night Hawk by Beverly Jenkins

If you read historical romance in order to learn history in a more congenial setting than a classroom, then Jenkins’ new book is for you. If you’re curious about marginalized groups in the settlement of the American West, then Jenkins’ book is for you. If you like feisty heroines clashing and falling in love with…