Ex-outlaw Clay Colby is having a bad week, one he hopes the arrival of his new mail-order bride will help improve. Fighting with Montana Black over the development of the town of Devil’s Crossing is just one of the reasons why he’s having a hard time of it. Black has resisted Colby’s building of Devil’s…
I hate writing reviews of middling books. I’m sure anyone who writes reviews on a regular basis will know what I mean when I say that reviews of books that are simply ‘okay’ are often the hardest to write. Anna Schmidt’s Trailblazer, the first in her new Cowboys and Harvey Girls series, is one such…
Tess LeSue’s Frontiers of the Heart series adds a new heroine to root for in Bound for Temptation. Madame Seline is, at long last, a rich woman. Having established three brothels in the California gold fields she’s been run out of Mokelumne Hills by Hec Boehm and his gang of thugs for refusing to give…
Harper St. George continues her Outlaws of the Wild West series with book three, An Outlaw to Protect Her, featuring gunslinger Zane Pierce and the madam only he can protect. Glory Winters, madam of the Victoria House, is a prosperous and independent woman who owns over half of Helena, Montana. The prosperous area is nearing…
Margaret Brownley starts off a brand-new series of humorous historical westerns with Cowboy Charm School, the first book in the Haywire Brides saga. From the back blurb: Texas Ranger Brett Tucker hates to break up a wedding, but the groom—notorious criminal Frank Foster—is a danger to any woman. So he busts into the church, guns…
Début author? Western romance? Why yes, sign me up please. Bound for Eden is quite unlike most of the Westerns I’ve read, but once I got into it, I quite enjoyed myself. This novel has plenty of adventure, but pairs it with a light and humorous tone which makes for quite the wagon train romp….
Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner’s continuing series about life and love among astronauts and aeronautic engineers working on the American space program in the 1960’s continues with Free Fall, a charming entry about an emerging society girl and the up and coming astronaut who impregnates her. Vivian – Vivvy – Muller, college student and sorority…
Rachel Fordham’s début novel, The Hope of Azure Springs, is a very tender story about an abused woman and the sheriff who becomes enamored of her. Nineteen-year-old Em Cooper has had a difficult life. Ending up on the Orphan Train and sent west from New York with her sister, they were separated when they reached…
Caroline Fyffe’s True Heart’s Desire is a complicated read, with an okay hero and a whiny heroine who have very little chemistry. Add on a lot of extraneous plot detail and you wind up with a romance that barely seems to factor into the story. Longshoreman Rhett Laughlin is a wannabe restaurateur who hopes to…
I love early twentieth century history and am delighted whenever I find a book set during that era. Pride and Passion, part of the Decades: A Journey of African-American Romance series, takes place during the 1950s and looks at a crucial period during the Civil Rights Movement. All Decades novel are standalone books, so you…