Hero Wanted is an unlikely but entertaining story that is equal parts adventure and love story. It’s one of those books where you have to just settle in for the ride, checking your reality meter at the gate. The Alcot and Townsend families are both owners of shipping companies in need of cash. The fathers…
Is it possible for a couple to get married and then fall in love with each other? Delaney Diamond sets out to answer this question in her contemporary romance Queen of Barrakesch, book three in her Royal Brides series. Set in the fictional Middle Eastern country of Barrakesch, the novel transports the reader to a…
Leah Martin is a successful baker who also happens to be plus-sized. Sam Cooper has a weakness for both her body and the desserts she makes and in a bumbling attempt to help her defend herself against her sharp-tongued mother, tells said mother that he and Leah are engaged. The problem is that they only…
On the back cover of The Rules of Gentility by Janet Mullany it says: “Pride and Prejudice meets Bridget Jones’s Diary”. This, while not untrue, is not quite on the spot. To give potential readers a true hint of what they are in for when they buy this book, the tagline should have read: “Meg…
Want something rich? You can go out and buy a couple of pounds of Godiva chocolate, you can splurge on a new car, you can hook up with Donald Trump (on second thought, forget that), or if like me, you are counting your pennies, you can buy A Woman of Virtue and have a richly…