I’d like to mention the work of Dorothy Dunnett. This author, though a historical novelist and not a romance author, has had a profound effect on my romance writing, and I’d say that her novel Checkmate is one of the best romances ever written. However, it’s the last in a series of six thick books…
Beauty of the Mist, I suspect, is a book that many romance readers will enjoy. Unfortunately, I cannot count myself among them, and am fully aware that by writing a negative review of this book, I should probably keep a fire extinguisher handy. The third in a medieval Scots trilogy, Beauty of the Mist is…
Although All We Hold Dear was reviewed in Romantic Times and was nominated for a Romantic Times award, the spine of this book, a re- issue in paperback of last year’s hardcover, does not refer to the book as a romance. I do not believe it to be a romance either. True, it is romantic…
Lion’s Legacy is the fitting finale to a Scottish medieval trilogy written by Suzanne Barclay. This book is a quick, but exciting romance that sets treachery and betrayal against the wildness and isolation of Scotland. Set in the 1300’s, the trilogy explores the trials and tribulations of the Carmichael, Sutherland and MacLellan clans. The first…