One of my favorite historical fiction authors, Lauren Willig, has done it again; serving up a doozy of a tale to delight and engross me. A strong stand-alone book, TWO WARS AND A WEDDING has loose ties to Read more...
Author Sherry Thomas brings us another fabulous installment in the Lady Sherlock series. A TEMPEST AT SEA is the seventh book in the gender-bending Sherlock Holmes series, and lucky number seven is such a delight to Read more...
Deanna Raybourn employs her delightful wit and feminist leanings in book 8 of the Veronica Speedwell series in A SINISTER REVENGE. Veronica Speedwell is a Read more...
Book 3 in The Rising Wave series, FATE'S ARROW by fantasy romance author Michelle Diener, brings us delightful new characters to join the beloved magic users and Read more...
Historical romance author Grace Burrowes brings us another delightful and cozy love story in MISS DEVOTED, book six in the Mischief in Mayfair series. Burrowes' tales feature older and more experienced women, which Read more...
Nineteenth in the modern-day police procedural series Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, A KILLING OF INNOCENTS by Deborah Crombie is a delight. This long-running series shows absolutely no signs of slowing or diminished quality.  Read more...
Book five in the science fiction romance series Ice Planet Barbarians, BARBARIAN’S PRIZE by Ruby Dixon is an alternate world romance between a giant blue alien and a kidnapped Earth woman. This was originally published as Read more...
NEVER A DUKEis the seventh in Grace Burrowes’ Rogues to Riches regency romance series. Many of Burrowes's books are gentle romances with older and slightly sexually Read more...
The standalone ALL MY RAGE by New York Times bestseller Sabaa Tahir leaps up and screams its message to the skies. This is a profound and moving book that I found hard to read Read more...
Greek mythology comes alive in this fantasy romance. A CURSE OF QUEENS is book four by Amanda Bouchet in the Kingmaker Chronicles series. The first three books in this series followed Cat Fisa, who is now Queen, and her husband Read more...
Nalini Singh brings us to book 15 in the Guild Hunter series aptly entitled ARCHANGEL’S RESURRECTION. This Guild Hunter series used to be one of my very favorite Read more...
Going strong in the long-running In Deathseries by NYT Bestseller J.D. Robb (who also writes as romance author Nora Roberts) brings us book 55: DESPERATION IN DEATH. The In Read more...
RAVEN UNVEILED is the third offering in the Fallen Empire series by marvelous author Grace Draven. Draven is one of my favorite paranormal fantasy romance authors. This series Read more...
Originally published in 2014 under the title THE CAPTIVE, THE CAPTIVE DUKE is the first in Grace Burrowe’s lovely series Captive Hearts. I read it in 2014, but much of Read more...
Celeste Ng's third remarkable novel, OUR MISSING HEARTS, is a chilling dystopian novel that nonetheless wraps us in familial love and a sense of hope. All three of Ng's books have been knock-outs, and OUR MISSING HEARTS is Read more...
BACK TO THE GARDEN is a sparkling new standalone police procedural from mystery maven Laurie R. King. I think King is probably best known now for her Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes historical mystery series, although she's also got another fine contemporary investigative series featuring Kate Martinelli Read more...
Book four in the Elena Standish historical mystery series, A TRUTH TO LIE FOR is another navel-gazing novel in this new WWII series by Anne Perry. Over the decades, Perry has become less concerned with the murder mysteries Read more...
SOMETHING IN THE HEIR is an unexpected story from historical romance author Suzanne Enoch. It’s billed as a “sparkling Regency romance” but I think that’s a falsehood. There is a faint romantic element in the story, but this is by no means Read more...
HUSBAND MATERIAL is a follow-up from the rom-com hit BOYFRIEND MATERIAL from genqueer writer Alexis Hall. This is Book #2 in the London Calling series, and hopefully, book three will be back to the joyous tomfoolery and Read more...