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REVIEW: The Music Box by Cheryl Reavis

Dear Ms. Reavis,

When I checked your website and saw this book mentioned, I got all excited and checked the eHarlequin site for ages waiting for it. Then it appeared and I read the blurb and thought, this sounds familiar. And for good reason as it was previously published as "Tenderly," the fourth book in the Navajo Family Blessings series, way back in 1998. But just because I'd already bought a (used) copy and loved it didn't stop me from buying it again, especially as you would get to...

REVIEW: Miss Foster's Folly by Alice Gaines

Dear Ms. Gaines:

I bemoaned on Twitter the other day that I was suffering a real slump in the erotic romance category and a reader suggested I give you a try.  I bought Miss Foster's Folly because the premise sounded fun and it was a full length novel versus the other offerings which appeared to be shorter novellas.

[image error]This is a role reversal story.  The heroine, Juliet Foster, becomes one of the richest women in the world when her father dies and leaves her all his liquidated assets.  Juliet is t...

Wednesday Midday Links: Plagiarism in Blogland

Yesterday was hate on romance readers day. I actually read one of these a week, if not more frequently, and generally don't share them because what is the point, right? It is culturally acceptable to repudiate the romance genre and romance readers. From columnist, Kimberly Sayer-Giles, we have the "romance as pornography" meme*; Russell Moore takes it even further by suggesting that Christian romance novels where the couple pray together are an invidious force against happy marriages....

REVIEW: The Hat by Babette Hughes

Dear Ms. Hughes,

A story about the Jewish mafia in Cleveland, OH during Prohibition? It's not everyday that someone offers me a book like this. Hell, it's not every year that someone writes a book like this so when your publicist offered it to me for a possible review, I just had to take a look at it.

[image error]In 1931 it was a struggle for most people to survive. Times were hard and jobs were scarce. When Kate Brady was let go from Shapiro's Bakery, she felt helpless rage and terror at what would...

REVIEW: Accidentally in Love by Jane Davitt and Alexa Snow

Dear Ms. Davitt and Ms. Snow,

Joan/SarahF has favorably reviewed some of your previous books here at DA, but I had somehow overlooked them. When I came across the excerpt for Accidentally in Love, though, I was hooked. I'm a fan of opposites-attract romances, the writing in the excerpt was strong, and I was curious to see how the characters would develop: Could you make Cal into a believable romantic hero? And was Tom a fake ugly duckling or a real one? You delivered the substantive goods in b...