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REVIEW: A Valentine for Daisy by Betty Neels

Arrogant, overbearing and dictatorial! Daisy Pelham can’t find much to like about brilliant pediatrician Dr. Valentine Seymour. Yet his small patients seem to adore him, not to mention his twin nephew and niece…leaving Daisy to wonder if perhaps there’s another side to the handsome doctor, one that he doesn’t want her to see.

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I was looking for a Valentine’s Day book but although this one is set during the late summer and early autumn with nary a glittery red heart card in sight, it als...

REVIEW: Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China’s Forbidden City by Adam Brookes

The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China’s Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond.

Spring 1933: The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking’s Forbidden City, for centuries the home of Chinese emperors, are tense with fear and expectation. Japan’s aircrafts drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away. All-out war between China and Japan is coming, and the curators of the Forbidden City a...

REVIEW: The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton

A warm and uplifting story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: a landscape, a community and a fragile way of life.

A rural idyll: that’s what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and her dream is to set up in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place when you’re no longer just here on holiday. ...

Review: Temporary Partner (Valor and Doyle Mysteries #1) by Nicky James

Can two rivals work together to solve a case?

When an infant is taken from his carriage in broad daylight, missing persons detective Quaid Valor must race against the clock to find the child and bring him safely home to his family. Unfortunately, Quaid’s partner isn’t available, and his team is spread thin. Begrudgingly, Quaid must accept help from his rival, homicide detective Aslan Doyle, if he wants to get the job done.
Aslan is Quaid’s opposite in every way. He’s bold, outspoken, arrogant, ...

REVIEW: Wedded Bliss by Barbara Metzger

Robert Rothmore, Earl of Rockford, thinks Alissa Henning is simply delightful-exactly the kind of woman who’d make the perfect mother for his sons. But Alissa swore she’d spend the rest of her life scraping pennies together rather than wed the insufferable earl and become a glorified governess. Still, she couldn’t very well let her own children starve-and there was no doubt that Rockford would give them all a good life. So she reluctantly accepts his offer…but there’s more to a good life than ...

REVIEW: Just My Type by Falon Ballard

Dear Falon Ballard,

I loved your debut book released last year, Lease on Love. I didn’t review it but it stuck with me and I was very keen to read your follow up, Just My Type. While it wasn’t quite as successful for me as the previous book I did still enjoy it and I’m keen to keep reading more from you. With only two books out so far, you are nonetheless on my autoread list. 

Lana Parker is a journalist who writes the love advice column at for Always Take Fountain, a lifestyle website based in ...

JOINT REVIEW: Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews

In this brand-new Kate Daniels novella, Kate and Curran have recently relocated to Wilmington and are renovating their new house fortress. Their contractor’s son is a friend of Conlan’s and when Darin, the boy’s teenaged cousin, is kidnapped by a gang called the Red Horn, Conlan lets Kate know. Of course, Kate can’t stand by and do nothing (and pretty clearly Conlan wants her to do something), so with the kidnapped boy’s father, Thomas, alongside her, Kate charges into the gang’s headquarters to...

Open Thread for Readers for February 2023

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REVIEW: Inherit My Heart by Mary Burchell

Can Naomi secure her future while keeping her heart intact?

England, 1962

Since the death of her father, eighteen-year-old Naomi Thurrock and her mother have relied on a quarterly allowance from a wealthy but cantankerous relative, Enoch Tenderleigh. When Enoch dies, both are shocked to be left only with a small annuity on which to survive.

However, Naomi soon receives an invitation to stay at Foley Grange — the estate that Enoch left behind — to meet his heir. Hoping that they mean to offer f...

REVIEW: Captain Ingram’s Inheritance by Carola Dunn

Frank Ingram, an impecunious officer, is seriously wounded at Waterloo. Rescued by Lord Roworth, he meets Roworth’s sister, Lady Constantia, an angel of mercy. But Frank and Connie are each hiding a terrible secret they are sure will prevent marriage to anyone, let alone each other. Rothschild trilogy #3. Regency Romance by Carola Dunn; originally published by Zebra as The Captain’s Inheritance

Dear Ms. Dunn,

After reading Lord Roworth’s Reward, I was eager to see how the love affairs of twi...