Medieval

Review by Lynn Reynolds The year is 1488. Daphne MacLeod is having a really good dream about Norris Sutherland. Norris is having an interesting conversation with his father about Daphne. What I love about Mary’s book is that she has made Daphne an independent woman during the middle ages when women were to take care [...]

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Reviewed by Sandra Scholes Synopsis: Medieval times are the setting for this novel. It is Axelson’s first full length one, and it isn’t about to disappoint. Young Virago is a royal tailor and works at court, taking over the previous tailor, his father, who was killed in an accident. He knows he has to keep [...]

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Reviewed by Sandra Scholes Synopsis: Get ready for fourteen stories of erotic fantasy romance. There’s a queen from a far off lands, the usual array of dragons, unusual kingdoms, sacrifices, saints and heroes. This anthology seems to have been labelled as Game of Thrones style literature, but taken to a sensual extreme, yet these stories [...]

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Reviewed by Sandra Scholes Synopsis: Two unlikely people meet in the strangest of circumstances – Meg and Caden. They both have their problems, and need each other for different reasons. Meg for her despair at being hunted as a witch, and Caden who wants to help his clan escape the poverty they have come to [...]

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Introducing Elizabeth Chadwick, author of A Place Beyond Courage Keira: Quick history lesson: Tell us a bit about England’s civil war between King Henry’s daughter Matilda and her cousin Stephen. Elizabeth Chadwick: King Henry I had two legitimate children (we won’t talk about the more than 20 children he had by women other than his [...]

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Reviewed by Sandra Scholes Darina O’Malley is distraught at the knowledge that her cousin, Kyra is to be betrothed to a man she does not know – he might as well be a stranger as far as she is concerned. She knows there are secrets about her clan that could undo them, but she is [...]

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Reviewed by Lynn Reynolds Sofia Howard is seen reading a book that was written by Queen Eleanor. When the book was written, Sofia didn’t want a husband and went to any lengths to make sure that didn’t happen. At least until she met Sir Tobin de Clare. Sofia appears to be a women’s libber of [...]

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Reviewed by Sandra Scholes Forbidden lust is the one thing the heroine of this story needs. For many years Princess Briareth’lianna has been hunting powerfully handsome wereling, Daeven just for the thrill of it, of watching his strong limbs leap around the forest of Drearwood, but she wonders what would happen if she allowed him [...]

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