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REVIEW: The Green Gallant by Jane Hunt (aka Dinah Dean)

Brilliant soldier Major Vladimir Karachev, of the Imperial Russian Army, is fighting for his life. Stuck serving under an incompentent Colonel and defending his homeland against the mighty and seemingly unstoppable French under Emperor Bonaparte, Vladimir must use all his wits to survive.

When the Allied forces chase the enemy into France, Vladimir finds a beautiful woman hiding in a closet! Blanche de Marain is caught in her late husband’s house after she returns for a picture of her late husb...

REVIEW: Loyal in All by Mary Burchell

A thrilling medical romance set in 1950s Hungary!

As Budapest crumbles, Marika’s heart is being torn in two…

Budapest, 1956

Bruised from her unrequited love for journalist Rodney Dering, dedicated nurse Marika Stevens is tasked with caring for a Hungarian child in Budapest. She quickly falls in love with the beautiful city … but when enigmatic doctor Janos von Raszay warns her to flee Hungary immediately, suddenly Marika has more than a broken heart to contend with.

With the country gripped b...

Open Thread for Readers for July 2022

Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general?

REVIEW: A Little Too Familiar: an Uncanny Romance Novel by Lish McBride

Love brings out the animal in you

Louise Matthews has got it good. Wonderful job? Check. Loving family? The best. Roommates? Pretty fantastic, thank you. All of this helps her

stay focused on what she wants: to finish out her apprenticeship and become a fully licensed Switch-an animal mage who bonds familiars to their witches.

Only a problem has just moved in-a hot, occasionally wolf-shaped problem.

Declan Mackenzie doesn’t want to be a lone wolf, but he doesn’t have a choice. Girlfriend? Gone...

JOINT REVIEW: You Were Made to Be Mine by Julie Anne Long

After taking a six-year break from Julie Anne Long’s books, I read After Dark with the Duke last year. I enjoyed it more than I expected to. Jennie read it and also liked it a lot, so we decided to review Long’s newest historical romance, You Were Made to be Mine, together. – Janine

Janine: You Were Made to Be Mine is the fifth book in the Palace of Rogues series, which is about a found-family boarding house near the London docks. The proprietresses, Delilah and Angelique, were once wife and mi...

REVIEW: The Nurse’s Secret by Amanda Skenandore

Based on Florence Nightingale’s nursing principles, Bellevue is the first school of its kind in the country. Where once nurses were assumed to be ignorant and unskilled, Bellevue prizes discipline, intellect, and moral character, and only young women of good breeding need apply. At first, Una balks at her prim classmates and the doctors’ endless commands. Yet life on the streets has prepared her for the horrors of injury and disease found on the wards, and she slowly gains friendship and self-...

REVIEW: Flight from the Eagle by Dinah Dean (Newly Released as an ebook/paperback)

Major Orlov takes on the protection of Countess Berova… But can he let her go?

Leading his battalion of injured and war-hardened infantry to safety, Major Lev Orlov is seeking shelter for his men in an abandoned inn when he finds himself face to face with a Countess. Lev can’t leave poorly dressed, but brave and resilient, Countess Berova to the grim fate of men made savage by war, and insists on her traveling under his protection. He can’t allow her reputation, or her virtue, to be compromise...

REVIEW: Matched by Masala by Mona Shroff

He cooks for their customers…but he’d rather cater to her heart!

One impetuous, slightly drunken kiss has turned up the heat on chef Amar Virani’s feelings for Divya Shah. He’s been in love with the sexy pastry chef—his sister’s best friend!—since they were teenagers, but a painful tragedy in his past keeps Amar from revealing his true emotions. As they work side by side in Divya’s tiny food truck, she realizes there’s more than just business simmering between them. For the first time, she’s t...

Jayne’s Reading List

The Season that changes everything …

Henrietta Gaydon is making her debut in London society for the Season, but her popularity and apparent ease disguises the fact that she is out of her depth and that she dreads the objective of finding a husband. She longs for home, her father and Lord Henfield, who she has always treated as an older brother.

Charles Henfield stopped thinking of Henrietta like a sister when she was sixteen. And he is determined to try his luck with her in London. Mistakes an...

REVIEW: The Forgotten House on the Moor by Jane Lovering

Dear Ms. Lovering, 

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect after reading the blurb for this book. Yorkshire Moors and some kind of mystery, yes – but ghosts? Hmmm, okay, maybe. I’m still turning over what I think about Alice’s self esteem issues and how often they were mentioned. Plus there is one character I just didn’t get at all. Still I guess there’s someone for everyone. 

Alice is my kind of friend – practical and level headed. But Alice’s nature is due to her painful family past of taking car...