Anne Stuart’s Banish Misfortune is a classic. Winner of the Golden Medallion (now known as the RITA) for Best Single Title Romance of 1985, it remains impressive nearly two decades later. I first read it in 2000, and while it was dated, with certain elements that make it more of an historical than a contemporary…
I’m beginning to think Tara Taylor Quinn is a find. I very much enjoyed her first single title for Harlequin, last year’s Sheltered in His Arms. It was the first book of hers I’d read, and I went on red alert for her other titles. I’m happy to say that the next one I read,…
“Oh, man,” I thought, when I read the cover of Kathleen Eagle’s new book, “not another secret-baby story!” But saying Eagle has written a secret-baby book is like saying Margaret Mitchell wrote about the Civil War. What the Heart Knows is a finely crafted and moving tale of love, loss, and a chain of events…
If you’re familiar with my reviews, you’ll know that I have never found the topic of adultery to be romantic and that I’ve emphasized my dislike for it as a theme several times. Having said that, it seems there is one possible exception to that rule – and I’ve found it in Lady Cat. Say…