Historical Romance
An Affair without End
An Affair without End is the third and final book in Candace Camp’s Willowmere series but it works just fine as a stand-alone read. In fact, the book itself works…
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The Guardian
As I read this book, I wondered two things. First, what was the average age of marriage for Scots women in the early 16th century? Second, why do all the…
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Improper Seduction
In this historical romance, the story, for much of the book, centers on this burning question: When will our heroine, Bridget Newbury, give up her maidenhead to the hero, Lord…
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One Whisper Away
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in possession of a good romance must be in want of a credible tale. Ms. Wildes, who references Jane Austen in…
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Dangerous in Diamonds
This fourth and last of Madeline Hunter’s Rarest Blooms series, tells the tale of Tristan, the Duke of Castleford, and Daphne Joyes, the proprietor of The Rarest Blooms, an unusual…
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Never Kiss a Stranger
“The monkey ruined the feast.” When I read the unusual first line of Heather Grothaus’ latest medieval romance, Never Kiss a Stranger, I was engaged. I had, as the song…
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Midnight’s Wild Passion
As a rule, rakes set on ruin for the purpose of revenge do little for me. Not only do I pity them for never having learned that living well is…
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A Borrowed Scot
At the beginning of Karen Ranney’s new romance, A Borrowed Scot, the hero, Montgomery Fairfax, is at a London club surrounded by Latin-chanting men dressed in hooded robes. He’s there…
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Taken by the Prince
I never dreamed of being a princess when I was young. Queen, yes, princess, no. And yet, the Princess saga clearly sways many a little girl — Disney anyone? —…
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An Unlikely Countess
An Unlikely Countess marvelously illustrates life in aristocratic Georgian England. The book tells the story of the relationship between titled Catesby Burgoyne and bourgeois Prudence Youlgrave. The novel teems with…
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One Night is Never Enough
Anne Mallory’s One Night is Never Enough is as close to perfect as any love story I’ve read in recent memory. I bet it’s the best historical romance I’ll read…
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When Beauty Tamed the Beast
In When Beauty Tamed the Beast, Eloisa James’ second fairy tale based novel, our hero is Dr. Gregory House, the TV doctor with the crotchety brilliant medical mind. OK, so…
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