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Review: The Billionaire Boss’ Innocent Bride by Lindsay Armstrong

by Keira 11.29.2011

Heroine: 21 year old Alex Hill works as an interpreter. Between 17 and 21 she lived in a convent after her parents died because the mother superior was related to her (aunt). She has an irrational dislike (fear) of elevators. Hero: Playboy Max Goodwin is a mining magnate in his mid 30s. He needs an [...]

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Review: The Highest Stakes of All by Sara Craven

by Keira 11.28.2011

Heroine: Joanna Veron is somewhere around 19. In her father’s world she plays at being a high maintenance vapid beauty, but inside she’s really just a sweetheart looking for a way out of her father’s lifestyle (without having to go to her perfectly nice uncle) ever since a particularly bad incident when they were living [...]

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Review: The Forbidden Wife by Sharon Kendrick

by Keira 11.26.2011

Before you start: Have you read Jane Eyre? Did you like it? Well The Forbidden Wife followed Jane Eyre to a Tee, which is great if you love Jane Eyre (which I do) but awful if you’re looking for new surprises (I was and there wasn’t any). Heroine: 18 year old Ashley Jones is an [...]

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Review: Fortune’s Son by Emery Lee

by Susan S. 11.04.2011

Reviewed by Susan S. Summary: Hero, Philip Drake, is the proverbial black sheep of his family. And an embarrassing disappointment to his father, the Earl of Hastings. Philip is a rebellious and impulsive young man; who’s spent the last four years drinking, bedding tavern maids, and gambling. Drake’s life is an unmitigated disaster; a reckless [...]

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Review: Miss Foster’s Folly by Alice Gaines

by Keira 09.17.2011

This Victorian romance is the very opposite of sexual restraint. If you’re in the mood for something hot and spicy with a wide streak of naughtiness you’ll want to read this book! You’ll love it from the very first page. Miss Juliet Foster upon her father’s death is given all of his wealth while her [...]

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Review: The Price of Desire by Leda Swann

by Mandy Dougherty 08.24.2011

by Mandy Dougherty, guest reviewer In a world where all is proper and sexual desires are too taboo to be uttered, a relationship forged on all that society deems improper is brewing… Caroline Clemens knows the pain of the plummet from London’s elite class to the lowly status of a mere pauper. The recent death [...]

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Review: Love and Scandal by Donna Lea Simpson

by Keira 07.09.2011

A lady in Victorian times had little options when it came to acceptable jobs. Writing novels was simply not one of them and certainly not publishing them. That’s why Collette Jardiniere hides her authorship of The Last Days of a Rake behind the pseudonym Collin Jenkins. That is until some trumped-up peacock of a rake [...]

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Review: A Secret Affair by Mary Balogh

by Marcia 06.25.2011

by Marcia, guest reviewer Constantine Huxtable is thinking about taking his next spring mistress. He takes one every year, usually one of the many widows that are available. He ends these affairs in the summer when he returns to the country. There is no shortage of women eager for his company despite the fact that [...]