Musings of a Romance Author
Penn Scully and Daria Followhill love to hate each other. He’s poor and barely managing to get by, while she’s rich and privileged. Their reckless action when they were kids has serious consequences for them both. Four years later he’s kicked out of his home and fostered by her family. The characters are hard to … Continue reading My Review: “Pretty Reckless” by L J Shen
Book 3 in The Maiden Lane Series After being forced to spend the night in the house of notorious river pirate, Mickey O’Connor, in book one, widow, Silence Hollingbrook, once again enters the lion’s den when one of her charges is kidnapped. Mickey admits the child is his, and as such she is in danger. … Continue reading My Review: “Scandalous Desires” by Elizabeth Hoyt
Hamish MacHugh has reluctantly inherited a Dukedom he did not want. Megan Windham is being blackmailed into marriage. Hamish offers to help Megan to retrieve her compromising letters, and save her from an unwanted marriage. I really struggled to get into this novel. The plot and characters felt dull and did not engage me. I … Continue reading My Review: “The Trouble with Dukes” by Grace Burrows
Maxim Trevelyn was a playboy, trust fund kid. He didn’t need to work. He had no direction. He enjoyed living the high life. Until his older brother died, and now he’s the Earl of Trevethick. Alessia Demachi is an Albanian immigrant. She’s escaped from an unwanted betrothal and sex traffickers. Now she works as a … Continue reading My Review: “The Mister” by E.L. James
Book 2, The Maiden Lane Series The very respectable Lady Hero Batten, saves Lord Griffin Reading from being discovered in flagrante delicto ...a compromising position...oh, you know what I mean, he was banging another man’s wife at Hero’s engagement ball. Thoroughly repulsed by his ungentlemanly behaviour, Hero is happy that she will not have to … Continue reading My Review: “Notorious Pleasures” by Elizabeth Hoyt
Chloe Mills nick-named her boss, Beautiful Bastard, because he was precisely that. She has worked for gorgeous Bennet Ryan for nine months, and had to endure his foul temper, and ruthless and demanding attitude. She has three more months before her internship ends when something snaps and they embark on a hot affair. This is not … Continue reading My Review: “Beautiful Bastard” by Christina Lauren
Grayson, Book 1 Sophia Cole dropped out of college to care for her cancer stricken mother and now works non-stop to pay for her mother’s medical expenses. One day, she receives a cheque from a charitable foundation for enough money to cover a new cancer treatment that saves her mother’s life. A year later, she … Continue reading My review: “Obligation” by Charlotte Byrd
Annie Cassidy loves rom-coms so much it’s affected her ability to find a man. She’s looking for a rom-com man, rather than a real man. Her friend, Chloe, sums up Annie’s dilemma in a nutshell, “I always think you’re exaggerating, but you’re literally in love with a fictional man. You know those movies aren’t real, … Continue reading My review: “Waiting for Tom Hanks” by Kerry Winfrey
Part of the Bareknuckle Bastards series Wallflower, Lady Felicity Faircloth, is desperate to be welcomed back into the arms of high society. To do this she makes a deal with Devil, king of London’s dark underbelly, who promises to turn her into a desirable temptress. Unknown to Felicity, Devil has his own plans for her. … Continue reading My review: “Wicked and the Wallflower” by Sarah MacLean
Book One in the Maiden Lane Series In order to find financial support for her foundling home, widow Temperance Dews, makes a deal with Lazarus Huntington, Lord Clare. In return, she must help him find a killer in the slums of St Giles. The plot meanders along for the first half of the book and includes … Continue reading My review: “Wicked Intentions” by Elizabeth Hoyt