Carla Kelly’s One Good Turn features Benedict Nesbitt, Duke of Knaresborough (Nez), who first appeared in Libby’s London Merchant There are also small guest appearances by Jane and Scipio Butterworth from Miss Milton Speaks Her Mind. Nez stops his coach one rainy day to pick up a woman and a young boy. Nez assumes that…
I am convinced that Carla Kelly doesn’t have it in her to write a bad book, or even a mediocre one, and her latest effort only confirms that impression for me. One Good Turn marks her return after several years’ absence from publishing, and it carries all her trademarks: complex and sympathetic characterization, an unflinching…
Surrender had a very pleasant hero and heroine. If it had stuck with their story, I would have enjoyed it very much, but too many secondary characters and a couple of really silly scenes made it a bit of a chore to get through. Netherland Brooms owns a successful restaurant and has many friends. She…
Ordinarily, action-packed books (or movies for that matter) just aren’t my thing. Shoot-em-ups, hijackings, SEALS and the like seldom sustain my attention for any length of time. My husband will never understand my desire to read a romantic comedy while he has the latest action/adventure/suspense flick blaring. So why did I choose to review Suzanne…
Air Force Captain Joanna West is flying the Secretary of a State and her Secret Service detail to a speech when she witnesses a bad car accident. Despite protestations from the head of the detail, she decides she can’t not help and touches down. She has no idea that when she pulls Alexander Taylor from…
I loved the central conflict in this book: the hero and heroine, who once loved each other deeply, have now come to hate each other just as deeply, and not because of any big misunderstandings. She was a Southern Belle and he was a Union spy. The met, fell in love, and got married in…
The Long Way Home is the sequel to Desert Isle Keeper Little Darlin’, and while The Long Way Home does stand alone, I highly recommend that you find Little Darlin’ first and read it too. Rita Warren has made a lot of really big mistakes in her life. She bore a child out of wedlock…
Lord Ragsdale is an intelligent and witty man who is bored. He squanders his talents on careless amusements, and surrounds himself with people who have not one half of his insight and wit. His accounts are a mess. His estate is neglected. This fascinating man has no one with whom to hold a worthwhile conversation…
Yes!! Suzanne Brockmann finally hit another home run book in her Navy SEAL series. I thought the last two – Everyday, Average Jones and Harvard’s Education were good, but not as good as Prince Joe or Forever Blue – my favorites. I liked everything about this one: the heroine, the hero and the action. William…
After I read Once in Paris by Diana Palmer, a book that treated an older man/younger woman romance in a way I found extremely distasteful, I picked up Rachel Lee’s Lost Warriors. This book is an excellent study of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a Vietnam veteran. Lost Warriors also treats the love between a…