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The Ruin of a Rogue

Gertrude Stein famously wrote “a rose is a rose is a rose.” The plot in Ms. Neville’s latest in her The Wild Quartet series, The Ruin of a Rogue, may…

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Glitterland

It would be easy label Alexis Hall’s debut novel Glitterland as literary fiction masquerading as romance. The language he uses – his metaphors are often show stoppingly gorgeous – and…

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Love and Other Scandals

Caroline Linden’s Love and Other Scandals is the best historical romance I’ve read this summer. Joan Bennet, the spinster heroine, has a sharper tongue and a sharper mind. The louche…

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It Happened One Midnight

It Happened One Midnight is the eighth book in Ms. Long’s Pennyroyal Green series. The hero is Jonathan Redmond, the youngest of the Redmonds.This fact alone made me consider downgrading…

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Flirting with Disaster

I am a fan of Ruthie Knox’s works. Her books are filled with characters it’s easy to care for, zingy conversations, smoking love scenes, and realistic relational conundrums. Thus I…

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Taste for Trouble

The last Susan Sey book I read, Money Shot (2011) was set on a remote island in Lake Superior and had deadly money laundering villain, pagan ceremonies, and a smokin’…

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Exposed to You

The first chapter of Exposed to You is so wildly erotic and intriguing I’d recommend it to anyone who wants to see how great erotica is written. The rest of…

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The Seduction of Elliot McBride

I, like many readers, was entranced by the first book in Ms. Ashley’s the Mackenziesseries, The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie. Ms. Ashley’s latest entry into the series, The Seduction…

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Under the Mistletoe

Ms. Shalvis’s very brief novella Under the Mistletoe gives fans of her Lucky Harbor series Mia’s story. Mia, the birth daughter of Ford and Tara (the leads in The Sweetest…

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A Royal Pain

A Royal Pain is Megan Mulry’s debut novel and it’s liked by many… just not me. I thought the heroine was a brat; the hero, a bath mat; and the…

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Heart of Danger

Lisa Marie Rice’s latest, Heart of Danger, is the first in her new series Ghost Ops. The premise of the series is fairly outrageous. The books are set ten years…

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Down for the Count

Ms. Bell’s racy book Down for the Count begins with a bang… one Lacey Garrity wishes she’d never seen. Because, really, out of all the things a bride hopes for…

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