Wow! Who could have known that greased pig races, astronomy and romance could mix so well? Geralyn Dawson threw these seemingly unrelated subjects together and whipped up a story that sent me into fits of laughter. It’s not just a funny story, however. The Kissing Stars is a book about second chances, and the lessons…
Heather Graham has another winner in this, the latest chapter in the saga of the McKenzies, a Florida family whose loyalties are torn and tested during the Civil War. It came very close to being a Desert Isle Keeper for me; only the ending really spoiled it. Dr. Julian McKenzie leads his patrol of Confederate…
Kentucky Dream is one of the inexpensive Precious Gem Romances, available only at Wal-Mart. In a sense, the old adage, you get what you pay for, applies here. It has an interesting setting, but it’s a short book – about 250 pages. The last half of the book isn’t bad, but the first half is…
Only With You is not really a story about two people who fall in love. Rather, it’s a story about a heroine who thinks she’s in love with her best friend’s fiance‚ until the second to last chapter, and a hero who finally tells the heroine he loves her on the last line of the…
Eagle is a fast-paced page-turner with a willful heroine who truly meets her match in hero Gold Eagle. Although the bad guys are under developed, the strong plot, dramatic tension, and truly black final climax make Eagle an exciting read. Privileged Mallory Tompkins is determined to overcome the sexism that prevents her from being taken…
It is very rare to have a hero win you over within the first few pages of a book, but Gossamer‘s James Cameron Craig manages to do just that. From the moment he gets up in the middle of the night to check on a weeping woman next door, James starts to win the heart…
Back in the 19th century, Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth wrote books of gothic-mystery-suspense-romance that were enormously popular. Titles like The Hidden Hand and The Curse of Clifton sold in the hundreds of thousands. Starting in the 1970’s, Kathleen Woodiwiss wrote books of gothic-mystery-suspense-romance that sold in the millions. The two writers are very similar. Both writers…
Only His was my first introduction to Elizabeth Lowell a number of years ago and today she is one of my very favorite writers. This book is not only historical romance at its very best, but romance at its very best. Only His is the first in the Only series, a quartet of western historicals…
Inspirational novels can be difficult to review. You can’t exactly give a novel a lower grade simply because you don’t agree with the beliefs of the author. As you might expect from an inspirational novel, the crux of this novel is a spiritual conflict. The hero has rejected God, and the heroine feels compelled to…
To date, A Taste of Honey is the only book I have ever bought because of its cover. In this case, you can judge the book by it. There are no rearing horses in the background, and no one’s clothes are falling off. It just shows a man and a woman standing together by a…