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Unforgiven
I’m not sure why I decided to re-read Unforgiven. I’d read it years ago and thought it was good but not great. This go-round, it impressed the hell out of…
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Suddenly You
I don’t read many category romances—I like longer stories. Sarah Mayberry’s, however, are the outstanding exception to that rule. I’ve read twenty of her novels. Suddenly You is my favorite….
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Sinner
But for the first time, I feel the power of praying words alongside someone else, the power of praying words so familiar and ancient they come from some hitherto unknown…
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What I Did for a Duke
Genevieve Eversea, of Pennyroyal Green, has been in love with Lord Harry Osborne for three years. Harry is all that Genevieve wants in a man — he’s funny, handsome, shares…
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Force of Nature
Jane Harper had been a journalist for a decade when she decided she wanted to write fiction. So, she did what many of us do when we want to learn…
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Having Her
There are books I read once and there are books I read again and again. Having Her is one of the latter. I read it for the first time two…
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His Very Own Girl
I loved this book when I first read it in 2012. I picked it up again for our blog on Activist Heroines and fell hard all over again. This is…
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Claiming Her
Lady Katarina has been holding the Irish stronghold Rardove for Queen Elizabeth. (The Virgin Queen is a slyly drawn character in this book!) The year is 1589 and Elizabeth has decided to…
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Unlocked
Stephen King once said that publishers disliked novellas because they “they were too long to be short and too short to be really long.” And it’s not just publishers, is…
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Keepsake
I wanted to love this book. I’ve liked the other two books in the series despite my normal “eh” response to most New Adult. I’ve liked the hero, Zach, in…
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Too Deep for Tears Trilogy
The three reviews of the books in this trilogy made me want to take a week off from life and read these books. Here’s the link to all three…
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The Trespasser
In early summer of 2007, I picked up a mystery at the Regulator Bookshop. The cover was mildly menacing, black letters embellished with sharp pointed green branches spelled out Tana French In the Woods. From the…
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