Stay With Me Forever is the sixth book is Farrah Rochon’s Bayou Dreams series, but it stands very well on its own. Characters from previous books make cameos, but the primary story is very self-contained. I am a sucker for second chance stories, and I adored Paxton and Sawyer. Paxton Jones and Sawyer Robertson both…
Well-written and touching, Walk Me Home is a good character study, a worthwhile comedy and a moving romance, all about the importance of forgiveness and healing. Wealthy Charlie Nash is back at Silverlake Ranch to attend the wedding of her cousin, Will. The last thing she wants to do is be there at the ceremony;…
Autumn’s Child is a truly lovely second-chance romance featuring a warm cast of secondary characters and a lot of sharp-eyed longing. Mrs. Norton W. Ridge II – Eleanor – is a set-in-her-ways old woman of the genteel south, whose relatives mostly abhor her, aside from a niece who considers caring for the woman part of…
Last night I finished Gilded Cage, and moments ago, I finished reading the latest batch of responses to the ask@AAR: Does Historical Romance have a quality problem? Well, if you’re exclusively reading K.J. Charles, the answer is a resounding ‘no.’ This is an author absolutely getting historical romance right, and the quality of this story…
Alisha Rai modernizes the classic one-night-stand-to-HEA trope in her latest novel The Right Swipe. Diverse characters, a feminist approach to sexuality and cutting edge dating technology breathe fresh life into this familiar format and gives us a candid look at love in the twenty-first century. She’s not looking for Mr. Right, just Mr. Right Now…
Want a cute second chance romance where the hero and heroine loved the person they were with before long and hard – but are willing to try for love again? Shelly Shepard Gray does a good job of successfully bringing a realistic working class blue collar romance to life in Hold on Tight. Jackson Koch…
The View from Alameda Island is a book title dear to my heart because I used to live near Mill Valley, which, in this story, is the location of Lauren Delaney’s home during her marriage. The community is a metaphor for Lauren’s stifling existence because up-market houses like hers are closed off from the street…
I know when I pick up a book by Marguerite Kaye that it’s going to be something different and A Wife Worth Investing In – the second book in her Penniless Brides of Convenience Series – is no exception. It can be read as a stand-alone but I know I am definitely going to go…
Whenever I read a lesbian romance novel, my heart expands by two sizes. As a queer girl, back in my youth I used to long for books featuring heroines who liked girls the same way I did, and that the publishing industry is beginning to open up and publish more queer romance gladdens me. Once…
Rogue Nights is a multi-author anthology featuring seven new novella length romances, stories of women and men fighting back against political ideologies that seek to disenfranchise women and minorities through racist and oppressive policies. It’s part of the Rogue series that came about as the result of the backlash to recent political events. Featuring people…