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Review: To Marry for Duty (The Husband Fund, Book 3) by Rebecca Winters

by Keira 11.14.2011

This is the last book in the The Husband Fund trilogy. Heroine: Piper Duchess is the last remaining single Duchess triplet and she’s feeling it. At the advice of her shrink she bucks up and firmly places her feelings of abandonment and loneliness behind her and dives headlong into her commercial art business. She gets [...]

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Review: Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange

by Keira 09.20.2011

Amanda Grange picks up where Pride and Prejudice ends. Jane and Elizabeth are getting ready for their double wedding, both eager and anxious about the life spreading out before them. On the way to the wedding, Elizabeth experiences a brief foreboding chill but shrugs it off as wedding nerves. The ceremony goes smoothly, Darcy’s vows [...]

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Review: The Prince of Midnight by Laura Kinsale

by Keira 08.02.2011

The Prince of Midnight was recommended to me by Anime June while guest blogging about My (Not-So-Secret) Favorite Romance Character Types because the hero was damaged and delicious. I believe this romance also fulfills my lust of big age differences. I can’t remember how old the heroine was (17 maybe?) but the hero’s retired at [...]

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Review: The Mermaid Garden by Santa Montefiore

by Marcia 04.28.2011

by Marcia, guest reviewer The Mermaid Garden is the story of two women who are desperately longing for love and fulfillment told with beautiful, sumptuous prose as well as witty, wry humor and a touch of mystery. Ten-year-old Floriana is a lonely, lost child, yearning to have something worthwhile and beautiful in her life. Her [...]

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Review: The Liberation of Alice Love by Abby McDonald

by Keira 03.09.2011

The Story: Alice Love is a contract lawyer working at the Grayson Wells Agency. The first sign of things falling apart in her life is an unordered French vibrator arriving at her office with her name on it. Not long after its arrival does Alice find out that her credit has tanked, the money in [...]

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Review: Lily of the Nile (Cleopatra’s Daughter, Book 1) by Stephanie Dray

by Zarabeth Golden 01.05.2011

by Zarabeth, guest reviewer Lily of the Nile follows the story of Cleopatra’s daughter in her new life as a Roman captive. She is a child who is forced to grow up fast and really examine her beliefs. With the death of her family and the capture of Egypt under Roman control her faith and [...]

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Movie Review: The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp

by Keira 12.25.2010

I can’t say enough good things about this movie. The movie got lambasted in my newspaper. I haven’t checked, but I have to wonder if a man wrote the negative review. The Tourist is a cat-and-mouse romantic comedy with lots of action and suspense. Just the sort of movie I want to see! There’s no [...]

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Review: The Moon That Night by Helen Brenna

by Keira 11.10.2010

Q: When can a good guy commit a crime and still be a good guy? A: When his family is threatened. Which is just what happens to soldier James Riley while on a routine rotation out of Afghanistan. David March, a man who blames Riley for his brother’s death, kidnapped Riley’s sister-in-law and his young [...]