Reading Recommendations

First things first, an update on my romance reading challenge.

For newcomers: I’m reading 30-odd award-winning romances and doing some spurious analyses of the values they reinforce. Why? ‘Cause! (Introduction, Progress, Reviews Batch #1.)

Dee Holmes’ Black Horse Island (1991, RITA Winner): Keely has inherited her father’s (titular) island, which is a camp for troubled youf. She has thirty days to prove herself, and that means she needs (for reasons?) a Man, and the right Man is Jed (JED!). Jed w...