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One Forbidden Evening
Jo Goodman hasn’t published a historical romance in over five years and more’s the pity. Her work, often dark, always smart, and peopled with leads that feel vividly real, has…
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Flirting with the Beast
In romance novels, the heroine is almost always under thirty. When older women – those over fifty – appear in romance, it’s usually as a secondary character who, if she’s…
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Beguiling the Beauty
Whether described by Sappho — “she that far surpassed all mortals in beauty” — or Marlowe — “the face that launch’d a thousand ships” — there’s not a woman in…
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A Lady Awakened
Ms. Grant’s excellent debut should really be titled A Lady and a Gentleman Awakened. Both the heroine, repressed Martha, and the hero, feckless Theo, are, by this novel’s end, alert…
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Desired
At the start of Desired, Tess Darent, the Dowager Marchioness of Darent, in an attempt to elude raiding redcoats searching for radical reformers, ties a sheet about her waist and…
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