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Review: Prince of Dreams by Lisa Kleypas

by Keira 03.22.2011

This love story is one of the most endearing I have ever read. Lisa Kleypas spins a tale worthy of mystical magical world of fairy tales. Based on Russian superstition, a prince who is like the Beast in Beauty and the Beast meets the woman of his dreams and learns to love. The bedroom scenes [...]

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Review: Love is Blind by Lynsay Sands

by Keira 02.19.2011

I just finished rereading Love Is Blind by Lynsay Sands today. It combines two of my favorite things to read in a romance novel. The hero is scarred and she is practically blind. Plus the sex is steamy. What more could one want? Adrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, was scarred in battle against Napoleon. Raw [...]

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Comparing Summer Wine Lee to Eliza Doolittle

by Guest Blogger 01.08.2011

by Kathryne Kennedy, guest blogger and author of My Unfair Lady It’s a pleasure to be here today on Love Romance Passion! Thanks so much for having me. Since my upcoming book was inspired by Shaw’s Pygmalion (and the movie, My Fair Lady), I’ve decided to compare my heroine, Summer Wine Lee, to Eliza Doolittle. [...]

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Review: Compromising Charis by Sahara Kelly

by Sandra Scholes 11.15.2010

by Sandra Scholes, guest reviewer Young and radiant lady Charis Forbes-Wilkinson hates that she is forced into marrying a young man she doesn’t have any feelings for, the reason? She was caught in a very compromising position with another young man she did want to be with, and enjoyed every moment. According to her annoyed [...]

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Review: Midnight Marriage by Lucinda Brant

by Sandra Scholes 11.11.2010

by Sandra Scholes, guest reviewer As the second novel in the Roxton Series this is a mystery set in the Georgian period where Deborah, a young girl is ushered into an arrangement between two families where a midnight ceremony takes place between two strangers, her and the man in question, Julian the son of the [...]

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Book Review: Never Romance a Rake by Liz Carlyle

by Marcia 10.23.2010

By: Marcia, guest reviewer Most Regency Romances portray life in this period as opulent and sensual. And it was, but it was also very hard. Wealthy children were valued not so much as individuals but for what they could contribute to the family in the way of money or power. Each member of the family [...]

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Review: The Dangers of Deceiving a Viscount by Julia London

by Keira 04.20.2010

Lady Phoebe Fairchild is in a pickle. Mrs. Ramsey is blackmailing her. The awful woman has guessed her biggest secret– that she is Madame Dupree, the French modiste, whose fashion creations are the talk of the ton. In exchange for not exposing her secret and ruining her reputation Phoebe must go to Wentworth Hall. Immediately. [...]