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Malcolm & Isabel

When Julie Anne Long wrapped up her much adored Pennyroyal Green series with The Legend of Lyon Redmond, she did a rather odd thing. The final pages of the book–a…

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Against the Wall

Jill Sorenson’s Against the Wall might be my favorite of Ms. Sorenson’s books. Many of her most memorable characters are genuinely hampered by their life choices, often to the point that there really…

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Shameless

Shameless is the fourth in Ms. Stuart’s The House of Rohan series–Heartless comes out this week–and, while it’s not as stellar as the first two in the series, Ruthless and Reckless (my personal favorite), it’as good as…

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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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