Heroine: Lady Eleanor Langston doesn’t know how to get her husband to notice her. He’s always busy with politics and while their live is steady and on the surface both seem content, it lacks passion Eleanor truly craves. Hero: Henry Langston needed a good hostess when he wedded Eleanor. They make love once a week [...]
Reviewed by Lynn Reynolds Pierce Waverly is the Earl of Devonmont. And when he was a young man he was very bitter. But that is what happens when you have the upbringing that he had. Maybe this holiday will change him – almost reminds me of a young Scrooge. Camilla Stuart takes care of Pierce’s [...]
by Keira on September 21, 2011 · 3 comments
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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 May 17, 2011 · 4 comments
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Series Background: The grandmother wants to see her grandkids wed before the year is out. If one fails to do so their inheritances go up in smoke. Series Plot Arc: The Sharpe children have been branded by scandal. It is widely believed that their mother shot their father and then herself in a tragic episode [...]
By: Marcia, guest reviewer Quiet and obedient Emily Fairchild is not expecting an adventure. She is content to care for her father, a country vicar since her mother died after a long illness less than a year before. She is happy to have been invited to the masquerade ball being held by the Marquess of [...]
I loved In the Prince’s Bed by Sabrina Jeffries. It was dazzling, sexy, full of wit and great dialog. The characters and their motives were well thought out and spun together to create a wonderfully fantastic tale. This is the first of the Royal Brotherhood trilogy. Alec Iversley, comes home from abroad at his father’s [...]
by Carla F. on December 23, 2010 · 0 comments
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by Carla F., guest reviewer It started out with an interesting premise and it ended OK, but there was so much in the middle that bugged me. In The Pirate Lord, Sara Willis, a reformer, decides that she is going to try to expose the conditions of convict women who are being transported to New [...]
Boy, do I have a treat for LRP readers! I recently was able to interview Sabrina Jeffries after the RWA Conference. Amidst her busy schedule she was more than kind enough to sit down and respond in depth on the topics broached. Get a cup of tea or coffee sit back and kick up your [...]