March 30, 2008 – 9:40 am
I just finished reading Samantha James’s newest novel, The Secrets Of An Unknown Lady. I had high expectations after enjoying her last novel, The Secret Passion of Simon Blackwell, and Unknown Lady delivered. The hero, Lord Aiden McBride, has a tortured past (no spoilers here!), and a determination to win the affections of the heroine. Miss Fiona Hawkes has a [...]
January 31, 2008 – 3:31 pm
I usually avoid new “literary” fiction (which I define as not a romance novel) because I have found a lot of them…boring. But because of such a high recommendation, I made an exception for The Lost Diary of Don Juan by Douglas Carlton Abrams. It’s full love, intrigue, sex, swashbuckling and adventure—just a few of my favorite [...]
December 13, 2007 – 5:57 am
A fellow romance author was over at my apartment, naturally browsing my bookshelves, and she remarked that our “research” shelves contained pretty much all the same volumes. Below is a list of books I turn to again and again:What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life [...]
