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Rachel Gibson - Lola Carlyle Reveals All : Burnt-out underwear model Lola Carlyle ran away to the Bahamas and is just getting it all back together when the boat she is on is hijacked by a badly beaten up guy who tries to convince her that he is a Navy SEAL. Of course she does exactly what any woman would do in her situation and blows up the GPS and sets the boat on fire. She and Max are nearly drowned in a storm and killed by more drug runners, but the last straw for Lola is when he uses her toothbrush! They eventually
make it back to Florida where they have some more adventures before
running off to be a SEAL again and having to make the hardest
choice of his life. A good contemporary story with a bit of humour involved. Stuck With You - Trish Jensen : As a rule, lawyers don’t like each other, but Paige and Ross truly couldn’t stand each other. Unfortunately, they were both caught in a bombing at the Courthouse, contracted a very rare virus, and end up quarantined together! Paige and Ross then spend the next 7 days trying to fight off the “love bug” that they contracted, which would be easier if they weren’t discovering that they have a lot in common, and that they are actually starting to like each other. A hilarious romp! |
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Secrets
Anthologies - Various Authors : These
are fabulous Romantic Erotica anthologies for women. I spent a week
and a half reading all the available anthologies (1 - 9) and I was
thrilled! There are four novella's in each anthology, with the calibre
of writing being just splendid. My favourite ones are Volumes 4 -
Emma Holly's "The Love Slave", and Volumes 6 & 8 - MaryJanice Davidson's
"Wyndham Werewolves" stories; these are terrific and keepers! |
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CJ
Barry - Unearthed : One late evening Tess MacKenzie finds that her quest to be the biggest
Star in the world leads her to be the most sought after woman in the
Stars! Literally! Kidnapped by Cohl Travers, black sheep heir to the
galactic throne, Tess has the necessary goods when it comes to singing
her way out of a dangerous mission to recover a lost amulet, which
has the power to aid the bearer to ruler supremely. |
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Jill Barnett - Bewitching : The MacLean is the head Scottish witch who decides that Joy the terribly inept witch is just what Alec, who can be a real pain in the Duke of Belmore when he wants to be, needs! Many hilarious examples of just how bad at witchcraft she is later, Alec forbids her to cast any more spells, but she can’t help herself and he gets terribly angry. Alec finally realises that he loves Joy after she runs off into a blizzard, but it is too late because The MacLean has decided that he is not worthy of Joy and takes her away. Alec finally convinces the MacLean that he loves her, and they live happily ever after. A wonderful, laugh-out-loud Regency that was very touching. Jill Barnett - Dreaming : Letitia is so unbelievably clumsy that you just have to laugh even though I cried at her pain of being desperately lonely, and so very in love with the handsome but disreputable Richard who thinks she is truly a pest. Her clumsiness gets them both kidnapped by a ring of smugglers, she accidentally sets the ship on fire, shoots him, he nearly drowns trying to save her dog, and unknowingly traps him into marriage by way of having spent so much time alone with him. She truly believes he is her knight in shining armour, and in the end, so he is. One of these rare books that really sucked me into the characters and had me laughing and crying and ignoring the washing up to finish it. The book follows Bewitching and is (I think) better, but if you are
going to read them both, then they should be read in order. Loretta Chase - Lord of Scoundrels : Fellow readers not so long ago I went looking for book and only had a brief idea of what I wanted - it had to be light and easy to read with humour and emotional, it had to hook me from the start and of course be historical and I found all this in Loretta Chase's Lord of Scoundrel. Loretta's tale of 'Beauty & the Beast' had me from the first, its a tale which flows with just the right amount of humour and villainy. Commencing with an emotional prologue of our Beast's misunderstood Mother, a Father who you would just love to hate and our Beast's sole destroying childhood emotionally crippling schooling and his early introduction to debauchery. Loretta gives our Beast, Sebastian, great intelligence but of course no understand our Beauty, a ready wit which he exercises regularly, arrogance and a hard won knowledge that anything has a price and of course no apparent morals. His comment of ”Women don't have a sense of humour, they don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce that the Almighty is a female” which our lackwited Bertie, Beauty's brother just has to repeat to her and sets a fire under our Beauty and our knowledge that their at their first meeting and some sparks will fly. Our Beauty Jess is highly intelligence, has wonderful understanding of boys and Beasts and her independent nature and beauty ensures she is still receiving and declining marriage proposals even though she of a certain age and “will be hanged if she marry and play brood mare to a rich titled oaf”. However her immediate problem is how to wean Bertie away from Sebastian sorry example whilst keeping her reputation in tact. You will love how Loretta brings together our volatile couple and how she weaves a tale involving antiques, ruination reputations, our hero being shot (of course Jess is the one handling the firearm) and his nerves on their wedding night and Jess's subsequent seduction of Sebastian and her discovery of his illegitimate child and how Jess brings together the tortured Father and Son and their triumph over the inept blackmailer. So curl up in your most comfortable chair, disconnect your phone, lockup
the husband/kids/animals so that you can have a uninterrupted read. As
I know once you start to read Loretta's tale you won't be able to bring
myself to put it down. Jo
Goodman - Let Me Be The One : North,
South, East and West – Ladies,
meet the Compass Club!!! Jo Goodman does a fabulous job with her first
book in a stunning new Regency series, The Compass Club. Amid the frivolity
of a weekend in the country, the Earl of Northam meets the mysterious
Libby Penrose who holds a dark secret apart from being
the cat burglar terrorising the Ton this summer. Madcap friends will
make you tear with laughter – watch out for
South!! And stay tuned because the second book in this series, Everything
I Ever Wanted, coming in March is his story. Eloisa James - Potent Pleasures : A lovely Regency novel by a wonderful new author. James’s first book in her Pleasures series is full of scandal, lost virtue, plunging necklines and dishy Heroes. Charlotte begins her first Season by unceremoniously loosing her virginity at a Cyprian’s Ball before she is out, to … apparently… a very handsome footman! Three years later Charlotte has become a reigning beauty as well as an accomplished painter and catches the eye of her dashing footman, who turns out to be the Earl of Sheffield and Downes. But Alex doesn’t remember Charlotte at all, and to make it more interesting, Alex thinks that Charlotte met his identical twin brother Patrick!! James’s has a wonderful command for the Regency period, I was not disappointed and gulped the second book and have started the third. These books are full of wonderful Regency families, passionate heroines and deliciously tortured heroes. There is love, laughter, damp petticoats and wonderful, wonderful scandals!!! If you like Stephanie
Lauren’s Cynster series and Georgette Heyer’s
romances, here’s a perfect combination of both. Katie MacAlister - Noble Intentions : A truly joyful Regency romp featuring the slightly clumsy Gillian, who falls for the supposed wife-murderer, Noble the Black Earl at first sight. They marry a few days later and spend the rest of the book going from one funny scene to another trying to protect each other from the rather inept murderer while (of course) he falls in love with her. There are many scenes where very clever plays on words made me chuckle and others like the scene where Gillian finds her Lord of Kisses tied up naked on his ex-mistresses bed with a broken man part set of a round of giggles that lasted for 4 pages. I was actually crying with laughter over the scene with the villain Earl who mistakenly believes Gillian’s butler’s name to be crotch and the confusion that ensues when he tries to get her butler to stop her dogs sniffing his crotch……… Next time you are in, have a read of the first page of this book. If you crack a smile, then buy the book, because I guarantee that you will laugh out loud and be unable to put it down because you just have to find out what she does and says next! Another rare all-night read I thoroughly enjoyed. Three Nights - Debra Mullins : To honour her father’s gambling debt, Aveline agrees to spend three nights with Lucien DuFeron, and submit to his every desire. The time goes too quickly for both, but when the debt has been paid, Lucien goes back to London where he is kidnapped a few days later and sold onto a ship. Five years later, a very angry Lucien returns for revenge, but instead goes searching for the woman he has not been able to forget. An equally angry Aveline has a surprise for him, but because he thinks she betrayed him and he hurt her terribly, their marriage of convenience is not happy, but they eventually find the truth and their love. This is an excellent story, fast moving with well developed characters,
more than the usual amount of very well written intimate moments, and
a villain that you may not guess.
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Cold Day in July - Stella Cameron : Toussaint, Louisiana is a sleepy little town, right on the bayou, full of stickybeaks with long memories and a triple murderer. Marc Girard returns to his home town looking to see if the latest brutally murdered woman was his sister, and finds the girl he has never forgotten – Reb O’Brien. The priest, the cop, the doctor and the bad boy all get together to try and link the murders of 3 very different women, and make sure that Reb is not the next victim. This is a really good book, with some unexpected twists and turns, interesting
characters, and a murderer you will never guess. Very much in the style
of Elizabeth Lowell and Linda Howard, this is an excellent read. |
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