Review by Lynn Reynolds The prologue starts on December 31, 1720. It has a shocking beginning and then it jumps over a year ahead. The setting is Venice and our character describes it as if it were female. I always find it interesting how a town is described as being female. It also makes me [...]
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by Sue Moorcroft, guest blogger and author of Love & Freedom When I started to write Love & Freedom, I didn’t realise that, apart from the all-important romance for Honor, my American heroine, there was going to be a subplot that was about mother issues. Honor’s birth mother is English and came from Brighton, on [...]
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I love Cinderella. I don’t really know anybody who doesn’t adore this type of character. Her story is one of rags to riches; poor in money but rich in love. Take her story, a timeless classic, and add Rodgers and Hammerstein to the mix and you have a hit musical. I love all versions of [...]
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Wolf at the Door is one of those stories that starts with a pebble falling off the side of a mountain and ends in an avalanche. The pebble is the little white lie Millicent Hyde tells her stepsister about being engaged. The snow drift starts when Sherry asks Captain Alec Wolferton if it is true, [...]
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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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Let’s start this blog with my all time favorite romance novel, Charming the Prince by Teresa Medeiros. The surprising aspect of this story is that I like it despite the myriad of children presented. I am not a fan of them in most cases because I feel they’re not handled properly or serve a purpose [...]
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