There is a lot to like about Maddie’s Justice. The characters are all intelligent, rational-acting people who never jump to conclusions and react in admirable ways to the danger they are thrust into. Unfortunately, as rationally as they respond to external events and characters, at times they act surprisingly silly towards each other, and each…
Rogue’s Reform is the third in Marilyn Pappano’s Heartbreak Canyon miniseries. It is not necessary to have read the earlier books in the series, but doing so will add a much greater depth to the characters in this book. I urge you to find the earlier books – Cattleman’s Promise and The Horseman’s Bride they…
Paris Sommers is a woman with a secret. To the rest of the world, she is the manager of best-selling author Montgomery Alexander, a man renowned for his thrilling cloak-and-dagger adventure novels. However, in reality, Alexander is nothing but another invention of Sommers’ fertile imagination, a creation she has fallen for à la Pygmalion. Then…
I don’t much care for Westerns. I picked up A Stranger’s Wife on the recommendations I’d heard from others, deciding to give it a try despite the setting. I’m very glad I did, and what’s more, I can’t wait to read more of Maggie Osborne’s work. A Stranger’s Wife is the story of Lily Dale,…
When I first saw the title Nell, I pictured the wild-child title character from the Jodie Foster movie, and I was sure I would never get that mental picture out of my head. About fifty pages into the book, I had lost that mental picture entirely. I was so engrossed in the storyline that I…
Lately, I’ve begun to think that there’s nothing new under the romance sun; it seems that every time I pick up a romance, I find myself thinking, “Been there, done that, ho-hum.” Then I come across a book like Nell, and my faith is restored, replenished, renewed. I cannot say enough good things about this…
This book tiptoes quietly into your brain until you are so involved in the story it becomes impossible to separate fiction from reality. An unconventional yet compelling story, it is romance where you would never expect to find it and it is, quite simply, wonderful. Cleveland Black Horse, or “Cleve” as he is informally known,…
Having finally discovered Sharon Sala, I picked this book up out of my library earlier this week, and thought I’d give it a try. Well, I didn’t put Jackson Rule down until I had finished it. It grabbed me, first paragraph, and I was off and running. Jackson Rule has spent almost half of his…
Knight Errant is the sixth and latest in Marilyn Pappano’s series Southern Knights. The books are set in New Orleans in a decaying neighborhood called Serenity Street. The characters in the Southern Knights books all have a common cause. They are fighting a crime boss named Jimmy Falcone. You don’t have to have read the…