Loretta Chase’s long awaited Miss Wonderful brings together a seemingly mismatched couple, Alistair Carsington and Mirabel Oldridge. A hero from the Battle of Waterloo, Alistair is embarrassed by the adulation he receives on his return home and works hard to disguise his permanent injury. As a third son, the fashionable dandy has been an expensive…
This is Loretta Chase’s first book after a long hiatus. Those of you who have been waiting with bated breath should not be disappointed: Miss Wonderful is witty, charming, and deeply romantic. The book opens with the Earl of Hargate wondering what the devil is wrong with his third son. Alistair hasn’t been the same…
Mia Thermopolis (full name: Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo) is a fourteen-year-old, vegetarian, environmentalist, New-York-City-residing European princess. It has only been a few months since Mia learned she was heir to the throne of Genovia, and since she found this out, her life has been one catastrophe after the next. In order that she might…
If you’re tired of the same old westerns and regency-set historicals, you might find a respite in Tracy Sumner’s Tides of Love. Set in turn of the century North Carolina, this book has a strong sense of place, and it’s a place and time we don’t often see. Adding to the originality is the hero’s…
Dr. Alicia Underwood is a top radiation expert working for a company called Envirotech in Seattle. The “Wipe Clean Project” is hers alone, and will, if this groundbreaking research is proven effective, create a bacteria that will ultimately “eat” radioactive waste at the earth surface, keeping it away from humans. Jason Kirkland is the new…
When I read this touchingly funny, passionately sexy book as one of the early (#25) Loveswepts, I knew immediately that it was probably the best, the most definitive romance novel – particularly “category” romance – that I’d ever find. Lightning was such an outstanding book that it made it hard to go back and reread…
In every Elizabeth Lowell I’ve ever read, the hero has always pinned a nickname on the heroine – “little cat,” “sunshine,” “schoolgirl,” “city girl” among them – that serve to emphasize the hero’s adult-ness and the heroine’s youth and assumed helplessness (and indeed, this has sometimes been the case). In Warrior, it’s “fairy-tale girl.” These…