The Summer of You by Kate Noble April 6, 2010 Historical Romance Paperback, 368 Pages Berkley Trade Reviewed by MandiWhy I read: Kate Noble’s second book, Revealed is one of my all time favorite books. Favorite Quote: “Why are we still hiding in the shrubbery?” She turned her smile to him then, her eyes wet with laughter, shining, happy. She had a leaf in her hair. A smudge of dirt on her elbow. And that pull tugged at his core. Oh to hell with it. “This is why,” he Continue Reading
Review: A Touch of Scandal by Jennifer Haymore and Giveaway
A Touch of Scandal - By Jennifer Haymore March 30, 2010 Historical Romance Paperback, 432 Pages Forever Reviewed by Mandi Why I read: I received the book for review from the publisher. Favorite Quote: “But I would kill any man that touched you. I can’t let you go.”Katherine Fisk has been peeking at a mysterious man for eight days now. Every day on her three mile walk home from work, she sees this delectable man bathing in a pond. It has become the highlight of her day, after Continue Reading
Review: The Highlander’s Sword by Amanda Forester
The Highlander’s Sword by Amanda ForesterHistorical RomanceMarch 1, 2010Paperback, 352 PagesSourcebooksReviewed by Tori Amanda Forester tells a suspenseful tale of love, betrayal, and redemption in the beautiful highlands of Scotland. Sir Padyn MacLaren left Scotland a young lad to fight with the French against the English.Betrayed by his fiancée and forced to kill her lover, he flees back to Scotland with a a vow to never trust a woman again. Lady Aila Graham has been groomed since birth to Continue Reading
Review: In For a Penny by Rose Lerner
In For a Penny by Rose Lerner Historical Romance February 23, 2010 Paperback, 336 Pages Leisure Books Reviewed by Mandi Why did I read: It was offered for review by the author and after The Booksmugglers glowing review, I knew I had to read it. Favorite quote: Penelope seemed haloed for an instant in perfect beauty, and he felt a sharp, unsettling pang as if someone had plucked one of his heartstrings, hard, and found it out of tune. It wasn’t like affection or lust – those he Continue Reading
Review: To Sin with a Scoundrel by Cara Elliott and Giveaway
A reclusive widow known for her scientific scholarship, Lady Ciara Sheffield is shadowed by rumors that she poisoned her husband . . . A rakehell rogue notorious for his devil-may-care antics, Lucas Bingham, the Earl of Hadley is not accused of murdering anything—save for the rules of Polite Society. The only thing they have in common is seeing their names featured in the lurid gossip columns of London’s newspapers. Until an ancient manuscript draws them together. Ciara needs a titled Continue Reading
Guest Review: To Desire a Devil by Elizabeth Hoyt
NOTHING IS MORE INTOXICATING— Reynaud St. Aubyn has spent the last seven years in hellish captivity. Now half mad with fever he bursts into his ancestral home and demands his due. Can this wild-looking man truly be the last earl’s heir, thought murdered by Indians years ago? OR DANGEROUS— Beatrice Corning, the niece of the present earl, is a proper English miss. But she has a secret: No real man has ever excited her more than the handsome youth in the portrait in her uncle’s home. Continue Reading
Review: Wild Heart by Lori Brighton
Leo Roberts is next in line for an earldom and the power and fortune that come with it, but he is uncultured, unrefined--and completely untamed. . .until governess Ella Finch arrives upon the scene. Can so young and inexperienced a woman tutor him in the manners and mores of his class? Leo's mysterious past has rendered him an outsider, too wild for polite society. But he finds her innocence most intriguing. . . What manner of man he may be, Ella does not know. Yet he fascinates her and she Continue Reading
Guest Review: The Heart of Christmas Anthology
The Heart of Christmas Anthology Historical Romance October 1, 2009 Paperback, 384 Pages HQN My Twitter friend, Jamie is guest reviewing today!! “A Handful of Gold” by Mary Ballogh The handsome, wealthy rake Julian Dare, Viscount Follingsby has led the bachelor life for quite some time. His father feels it is high time he settles down and marries. Unfortunately, Julian is not happy with the heiress his family has chosen for him. He feels it is his Continue Reading
Review: Island of the Swans by Ciji Ware
Re-issued in its original full length, this acclaimed and bestselling romantic historical novel by award-winning author Ciji Ware tells the true story of passionate and flamboyant Jane Maxwell, the 4th Duchess of Gordon (1749-1812). In love since childhood with Thomas Fraser, when she hears that he's been killed in America, she marries the Duke of Gordon with disastrous results. But Fraser, very much alive, returns to England to claim her love. In addition to telling a heart-wrenching love Continue Reading
Review: Lessons in French by Laura Kinsale
"It was quite settled by now. She was born to be a spinster. The gentlemen would have to declare their undying devotion to other ladies. Callie would be too much occupied with developing a delicate constitution and a dependable recipe for tapioca-jelly."She is, after all, Lady Callista Taillefaire, jilted three times in spite of her fortune and her father's best efforts to find her a husband. Now her greatest desire is to win the silver cup at the agricultural fair with her gigantic prize bull, Continue Reading