Musings of a Romance Author
Lady Charlotte Prescott, is wealthy and wrapped in cotton wool by her over- bearing family. Then she meets older, charming, and serial womaniser, Spencer Jones. He’s a total player but he turns himself around for her. When her family finds out, and his past catches up with him, it all goes wrong. This is a … Continue reading My Review: “Mr Spencer” by T L Swan
Bareknuckle Bastards Book 2 Lady Henrietta Sedley is desperate to prove to her father and the world that she can run his shipping business better than her brother, or any other man. Unfortunately, her brother makes the mistake of stealing from the Bareknuckle Bastards, kings of the criminal classes of Covent Garden, and they want … Continue reading My Review: “Brazen and the Beast” by Sarah MacLean
I like a good old marriage of convenience trope and this is a decent story. Katy Elliott cannot refuse a marriage contract from her arrogant, and demanding, playboy boss, Richard VanRyan. She needs the money to care for her ailing relative. Richard, on the other hand, wants to stick two fingers up at his boss … Continue reading My Review: “The Contract” by Melanie Moreland
Book 4 The Maiden Lane Series Lady Isabel Beckinhall loves to tease the serious and devout manager of the children’s home she patronises, Mr Winter Makepeace. Isabel rescues the notorious Ghost of St Giles when she finds him injured in the streets. She becomes increasingly fascinated by both the Ghost, and Winter, and it does … Continue reading My Review: “Thief of Shadows” by Elizabeth Hoyt
A Dirty Rockstar Romance #1 Girl next door and wannabe artist, Katie Bloom, gets a job on a music video for rockstar Jessie Mayes. In what is one of the steamiest scenes I’ve read, they have to simulate a heavy make out session. The video is such a success that Jesse pays her to be … Continue reading My Review: “Dirty Like Me” by Jaine Diamond
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