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Not That Duke

Not That Duke begins with this author’s note: There’s no need to have read The Reluctant Countess, but if you have, you’ll notice that Part 1 of Not That Duke takes…

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Fortune Favors the Viscount

Caroline Linden is one of my favorite historical romance novelists. Her Scandalous series is one of my favorites in the genre–Love and Other Scandals is flat out fabulous–and I’ve enjoyed…

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Rebel at Heart

Rebel at Heart is my first Zoe York book–I can see why other AAR reviewers have so enjoyed her work. Very sexy, nicely funny, and with leads you’d like to…

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Good As Gold

In Good As Gold, Sarina Bowen gives us another couple in her True North‘s small town Vermont. Matteo Rossi and Lelia Giltmaker have loved each other since they were teens…

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Forever Your Rogue

In the author’s note of her debut novel, Forever Your Rogue, Erin Langston writes: I had been halfheartedly researching an entirely different plot for Forever Your Rogue when I stumbled…

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Homecoming

Toward the end of Kate Morton’s magnificent new novel, Homecoming, she writes: Reading shapes a person. The landscape of books is more real, in some ways, than the one outside…

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Sea of Ruin

Why did I opt to read a pirate ménage à trois romance? I blame Alexis Hall. His review of Sea of Ruin, which may be found here, is so engagingly…

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Wilder at Last

Serena Bell wraps her her Wilder Adventures series with a frenemies to lovers story. This quintet of books, set in the nicest town in Oregon, Rush Creek, features five brothers…

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The Worst Woman in London

I am thrilled to see Julia Bennet again publishing historical romance. Her first two novels, The Madness of Miss Gray and The Ruin of Evangeline Jones, are four star reads…

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Verity

from The New York Times in October 2022: Colleen Hoover has sold more books this year than Dr. Seuss. She’s sold more books than James Patterson and John Grisham —…

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The Dark King

The Dark King, Gina Maxwell’s urban fantasy romance, invokes the rockstar Meatloaf‘s immortal words: “Two out of three ain’t bad.” The novel has a delicious love story, satisfying plot, and…

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The Stolen Heir

Holly Black’s marvelous trilogy The Folk of Air is so damn good that when I heard she was continuing to explore the world of Elfhame, a kingdom of magical islands,…

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