Has it really been 14 years that historical mystery
author Anna Lee Huber has been delighting us with the
inquiry agent Sebastian Gage and his intrepid wife, Lady
Kiera Darby, in the Lady Darby series?
Goodness, how time flies when one is enjoying
one’s Read more...
Are we really up to nine books in Julie Anne Long’s
The Palace of Rogues series?! GAME OF ROGUES brings
the reader Long’s well-known and even more well-
received witty banter along with plenty of emotional depth
and slow- burn chemistry. This Read more...
A CURSE OF BEASTS AND MAGIC by Jeanine Frost is billed as
a Beauty and the Beast retelling, but with a twist.
Here, it’s the heroine who is literally carrying
a Beast inside of her, and the Beauty is the hero.
It’s a Read more...
The latest release from romance queen Nora Roberts is
titled THE FINAL TARGET, a standalone romantic suspense
book. In the first few chapters, I was worried that it
was going to be too scary for me. But the scare factor
really petered out. There is much Read more...
PLATFORM DECAY is the eighth book in Martha Wells's
beloved Murderbot Diaries series, plus there is a short
story and a novella. At only 256 pages, PLATFORM DECAY
feels like a novella rather than a book, even though the
word count is higher than a novella would Read more...
C.S. Harris reels the reader in again with WHEN THE
WOLVES ARE SILENT, the twenty-first book in the Sebastian
St. Cyr series. This engrossing and dark historical
mystery is set in Regency England and features lush
historical flavor and details. The former cavalry
officer and Read more...
Sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor describes THIS KINGDOM
WILL NOT KILL ME as “the page-turning politics of Game
of Thrones meets the worlds-spanning romance of Outlander in
this blockbuster new epic fantasy series from the #1 NY
Times bestselling author duo Ilona Andrews.” Read more...
I always enjoy Deanna Raybourn's stories, so I was
excited to pick up A GHASTLY CATASTROPHE, book 10 in the
Veronica Speedwell series. Social media was all-a-
flutter when this book was announced, and Raybourn fans were
ecstatic to describe this as a crossover with Read more...
466 pages in hardcover, CROWN OF WAR AND SHADOW is the
first in a new series, Kingdoms of the Compass, by
NY Times bestseller author J.R. Ward. I am a huge fan
of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by Ward, but most of
her other Read more...
New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips returns to her beloved Chicago Stars series with book eleven, AND THE CROWD WENT WILD. I learned a fun fact in the Author Note here: Phillips is widely credited with popularizing and essentially creating the modern sports romance genre. Read more...
Sixty seconds in the In Death series, STOLEN IN DEATH by J.D. Robb brings us another fairly fun installation in this looooong-running futuristic murder mystery/police procedural series. There are so many components of this series that make it enjoyable. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is cool Read more...
The first in a two-book series, SILVER & BLOOD is a diverting forced proximity enemies-to-lovers romantasy by an author that I adore, Jessie Mihalek. My favorite reads by Mihalek have been sci-fi romance. Her Consortium Rebellion series is especially amazing, with Read more...
NINE GOBLINS by T. Kingfisher was originally self- published as an ebook in October 2013 by Smashwords. It was also previously released by Audible in audio version with a release date of September 2024. A delightful little novella, it is now being re-released by Tor as Read more...
This is the fifth book in Grande Dame Mary Balogh’s Ravenswood series. This is the series centering around the family of the previous Earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, who had been exposed to the ton for his clandestine affairs by his own son, Devlin. REMEMBER THE DAY Read more...
THE SEVEN RINGS is the third in The Lost Bride Trilogy and is a
classic feel from romance powerhouse author Nora Roberts.
Roberts is an uber-prolific writer, churning out about four
books a year between her Nora Roberts romance Read more...
Patricia Briggs is in my top five favorite authors, so I greedily gobbled this collection of short stories up. Set in the “Mercy-verse,” BLIND DATE WITH A WEREWOLF is most closely tied to the Read more...
I was first introduced to Sherry Thomas back in 2011, when historical romance was still very much a thing. Thomas has been a hit-or-miss romance author for me. Normally, I am delighted by her writing, but occasionally she writes something that does not work at Read more...
The epic series Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward plows onward in this twenty-third installment: LOVER FORBIDDEN. Ward continues to focus on the second generation of vampiric Read more...