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Any Man of Mine
Any Man of Mine is Rachel Gibson’s sixth book featuring a sexy Chinooks ice hockey player, and it’s a great one. That’s the good news. The possible bad news is…
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Taken by the Prince
I never dreamed of being a princess when I was young. Queen, yes, princess, no. And yet, the Princess saga clearly sways many a little girl — Disney anyone? —…
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Hidden Away
Hidden Away by Maya Banks is the second book I’ve read recently in which the macho hero has hot sex with the heroine while he is seriously injured. This seems…
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Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Don’t read this review if you have any interest in Ms. Cole’s wildly popular Immortals After Dark series and haven’t begun reading it yet. This is the ninth book —…
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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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