Together Always is a book I’d heard great things about, and it lived up to its reputation. A story of rare sensitivity and touching emotion, it really is something special. The book is divided into two parts. In the first, Trace Dushane is just a teenager when his stepfather’s young niece Lily comes to live…
Have you ever been so close to another person that you no longer know where you end and the other person begins? Some people might find this to be a good thing, but in Karen Brichoux’s wonderful new novel, Separation Anxiety, Wichita Gray isn’t too sure about that. For almost as long as she can…
From reading some of the comments posted to the AAR Message Boards, I know that there are readers who miss the long leisurely historical romances that were the norm back in the days when Jennifer Wilde was writing. I cut my romance reading teeth on those and, while I do love a quick read, there…
Marrying Owen is the first book in the Bachelors Inc. trilogy. It had me charmed and delighted all through it until the last chapter when a plot twist came out of nowhere, based not on character but solely to create conflict and advance the story. But after I closed it, the charming parts were the…
Remember John Hughes’ 1980s high school movies? Ever wonder what happened to those misfit, working-class girls when they left town, grew up, and looked back on life since high school? Alison Kent’s latest book, Four Men and a Lady, reads as if one of those Hughes heroines got to attend her 15th high school reunion,…