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Deadly Lies
In this third book in the series about the entirely fictional FBI’s Serial Services Division (they track and catch serial criminals), the literally tortured heroine is Samantha Kennedy. Sam was…
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An Unlikely Countess
An Unlikely Countess marvelously illustrates life in aristocratic Georgian England. The book tells the story of the relationship between titled Catesby Burgoyne and bourgeois Prudence Youlgrave. The novel teems with…
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One Night is Never Enough
Anne Mallory’s One Night is Never Enough is as close to perfect as any love story I’ve read in recent memory. I bet it’s the best historical romance I’ll read…
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How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
This book has a plot pulled from quirky old TV shows with a bit of a Twilight-type love tossed in. The setting of Grundy, Alaska is a dead ringer for…
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When Beauty Tamed the Beast
In When Beauty Tamed the Beast, Eloisa James’ second fairy tale based novel, our hero is Dr. Gregory House, the TV doctor with the crotchety brilliant medical mind. OK, so…
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A Light at Winter’s End
In Ms. London’s latest contemporary, Holly Drake, a 34-year old songwriter with a day job at a local coffee shop in Austin, can’t get along with her older sister Hannah….
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Wicked Nights with a Lover
Wicked Nights with a Lover is not a very good book. It has a silly premise, irritating leads, and ick-inducing prose. Surely Ms. Jordan, who has written five other historical…
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A Taste of Desire
I had to wait a few hours after I finished this book to write this review — it’s hard to type when fanning oneself. This book is smoking hot —…
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Scared to Death
In Wendy Corsi Staub’s latest thriller Scared to Death, a book with nary a spec of romance in it, a knife-happy serial killer is plotting to harm not one but…
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The Pursuit of Pleasure
The Pursuit of Pleasure is an interesting historical romance. Its author, Ms. Essex, who has an undergraduate degree in Classical Studies and Art History and a Masters degree in Nautical…
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Rules of an Engagement
The most interesting thing about Suzanne Enoch’s latest novel, the third in her Adventure Club series, is its setting in the South Sea Islands. The islands, with their blood-thirsty natives,…
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How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
How to Woo at Reluctant Lady is the third book in Sabrina Jeffries’ Hellions of Halstead Hall series and it does not function well as a stand-alone book. That is…
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