Guest blog by Sandra Scholes Which came first? The rakish behavior or the wife? In modern day society if you marry, it’s usually for love and mutual interest. So a husband cheated on his wife, they are all sorts of names under the sun. If he had cold feet about the seriousness of a permanent [...]
by Amelia Grey, guest blogger and author of A Gentleman Never Tells Good morning! Thank you for having me at the fabulous site of Love Passion Romance. I’m thrilled to be here and to talk a little about my new book A Gentleman Never Tells. Several books ago, I decided I wanted to do heroes [...]
by Keira on June 17, 2011 · 0 comments
in 3.5 Stars, 4 Stars, A-C, Barons and Baronets, Book Review, Category, Enemies, Entrepreneur, Great Britain, Playboys and Rakehells, Regency, Runaway, Spinster, Tycoon, Virgin Heroine
Marry a horrible abusive philandering man or risk absolute ruin by running away? Tough choice… not! Spinster Emma Worthington has waited this long for romance and there’s no way her family’s dire straights will force her into an unwanted marriage to a creep. She packs her bag and races to an old suitor in hopes [...]
The Story: New York City heiress, Winnifred Percy, has been very good about slipping through fortune hunter and marriage seeking fingers. A lie here or there and soon her suitors would disappear. This is exactly was Winn wants because in a few short years she’ll gain full control over the fortune left to her by [...]
by Keira on November 4, 2010 · 3 comments
in 5 Stars, ARC, Arranged/Forced Marriage, Business, Divorced, Duchess, Countess, Marchioness, Dukes and Earls, Enemies, Estranged, G-I, Great Britain, Love Triangle, May/December, Mistress or Courtesan, Playboys and Rakehells, Pregnant, Victorian, Virgin Heroine
Looking for an irresistible historical romance with an unusual twist? You should try Passions of a Wicked Earl. It features an arranged marriage, unrequited turned requited love, enemies to lovers, seduction of a rakehell, and an evil other woman. Exiled to the country less than twenty-four hours after marrying her husband, Claire Westcliffe knew she [...]
by Keira on October 23, 2010 · 0 comments
in 3.5 Stars, Arranged/Forced Marriage, Book Review, Business, Category, Contemporary, Dancing, France, G-I, Gentry, May/December, Playboys and Rakehells, Rape/Abuse, Runaway, South America, Tycoon, Virgin Heroine
When Rafael Romero was 18 he found himself engaged to an 8 year old. The idea of being trapped in an arranged marriage suffocated him and in rebellion he cut through the ladies always having one on his arm and in his bed. Once he even got engaged on his own terms only to have [...]
by Keira on September 19, 2010 · 0 comments
in 3 Stars, ARC, Arranged/Forced Marriage, Counts, Marquis, Viscounts, Estranged, G-I, Great Britain, Heiress, Mistaken Identity, Mystery, Regency
Lady Mirabella Whittingham has given up on her long lost fiancé. It’s been six years since they got engaged and he ran off to the Americas. It’s no longer important to Mirabella to keep herself perfectly chaste for him, especially when not being so helped her investigate her friend’s death. Her clues were infinitesimal. All [...]
by Susan S. on March 24, 2010 · 0 comments
in 2 Stars, ARC, Arranged/Forced Marriage, D-F, Great Britain, Guest Reviews, Heiress, Highlander, Historical Romance, Scarred Hero, Virgin Heroine
by Susan S., guest reviewer Heroine, Aila Graham, has lived a pious and sheltered life at Dundaff castle; in Scotland. She’s preparing to take her vows as an Abbess. Well…actually, that was before her father married her off to a highland warrior named Padyn MacLaren (hero.) Aila’s father (Laird John Graham) offers MacLaren his daughter’s [...]