by Keira on March 10, 2013 · 0 comments
in 4.5 Stars, ARC, Blackmail, Children, Counts, Marquis, Viscounts, Cross-Dressing Female, D-F, Dukes and Earls, Enemies, Foster/Orphan/Adopted, Gambling, Great Britain, Regency, Spinster
Hero: James Hartley is tracking down the man who stole a family heirloom right off the neck of his mistress. He knew better than to give her the jewels, she was not the mysterious woman he kissed at a costume ball. The only person he wants to find more than the Count de Bonneville is [...]
Hero: When Alex Weston was young, he was blackmailed into working as a male prostitute in order to keep his family from London’s prisons. He has been thinking of escaping ever since, but the information that caught him then, is holding him captive today. With nothing much better to look forward, Alex decides to stay [...]
by Keira on February 18, 2013 · 1 comment
in 3 Stars, Acting, ARC, France, Gambling, Germany, Great Britain, M-O, Regency, Revenge, Widow or Widower
Hero: Dominic St. Claire and his brothers continue to uphold a feud that started many years ago with the Huntingtons, involving older relatives on both sides. They brothers blame the Huntingtons for the loss of their family fortune. Revenge would be sweet and Lady Sophia would be perfect target. Dominic decides he will elope with [...]
by Keira on May 29, 2012 · 0 comments
in 4 Stars, 4.5 Stars, ARC, Blackmail, Business, Cross-Dressing Female, D-F, Dukes and Earls, Gambling, Great Britain, Mystery, Regency, Travel, Working with Land
Hero: The Earl of Killingworth, Connor Linsley, is not your usual Earl of the Realm. He works for a living earning money from his gambling den and brothel that carters to men of the peerage. He hides this fact from others by pretending to be just any other high roller in the establishment. Like any [...]
by Keira on November 28, 2011 · 0 comments
in 4 Stars, A-C, Book Review, Category, Contemporary, Enemies, Gambling, Greece, Kidnapping, Mistress or Courtesan, Rape/Abuse, Revenge, Secret Baby, Tycoon, Virgin Heroine
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 [...]
by Keira on September 21, 2011 · 3 comments
in 3.5 Stars, ARC, Business, Children, Cooking, Gambling, Gentry, Great Britain, J-L, Playboys and Rakehells, Regency, Spinster, Travel
A Hellion in Her Bed is book two of the Hellions of Halstead Hall series by Sabrina Jeffries. The Sharpe family consists of five children raised by their grandmother. Their parents died under mysterious circumstances which set tongues wagging throughout the ton and shadowed their lives growing up. When all the children were grown but [...]
by Keira on March 19, 2011 · 0 comments
in 4 Stars, A-C, Book Review, Children, Crime and Protection, Gambling, Historic America, Kidnapping, Rape/Abuse, Revenge, United States of America, Widow or Widower, Working with Land
This is the sixth book in the Maitres D’Armes series. The Story: Widow + Child + Parents + Brother + Father’s Gaming Debt = Sword Master + Vengeance Plot + Marriage Proposal + Newly Acquired Family Home & Family. How’s that for a brief overlook? lol When widowed Reine Cassard Pingre’s father gambles and loses [...]
I’m squeeing all over the place with this book. One Night Is Never Enough is not enough! I want it to be 5 times longer – and that’s only a slight hyperbole there. I loved the hero. He’s all kinds of toe-curling wonderful. Let’s start with his name… Roman Merrick… two of my favorite first [...]