Genre: Historical Romance

Guest Review: The Mad Earl’s Bride by Loretta Chase

Guest Review: The Mad Earl’s Bride by Loretta Chase

This novella was originally a part of an anthology released in 1995 but has not been re-released to stand on its own. And stand it does.  It is not only an educational piece of history about the progress (or lack thereof) of the practice of medicine, of the ideas about insanity and about the practice […]

Guest Review: Secrets of a Runaway Bride by Valerie Bowman

Guest Review: Secrets of a Runaway Bride by Valerie Bowman

Anne Andrews has pretty much been left on her own in London. Her sister Lily is on her honeymoon and her chaperone for the month is her aunt by marriage, Aunt Clarissa. Aunt Clarissa is a bit of a lush so she’s really not all that much of a chaperone. Since Anne thinks herself in […]

Guest Review: The Trouble With Being a Duke by Sophie Barnes

Guest Review:  The Trouble With Being a Duke by Sophie Barnes

The Spirit of Cinderella lives in this delightful and engaging historical romance, not withstanding the fact that there is a back story that is not readily apparent and one that complicates matters far more than the main characters realize at first.  It that greater depth that doesn’t emerge until later in the story and until […]

Guest Review: The Secrets of Mia Danvers by Robyn DeHart

Guest Review: The Secrets of Mia Danvers by Robyn DeHart

Mia Danvers was just 16 years old when her mother dropped her off at a cottage on the Duke of Carrington’s property and never went back. Mia was blinded in a riding accident and because of this her family told everyone she was dead and moved on with their lives. Luckily Mia had her friend […]

Guest Review: An English Bride in Scotland by Lynsay Sands

Guest Review:  An English Bride in Scotland by Lynsay Sands

Marriage has been a consummate political tool and women the political chattal that fathers and families have used to further selfish ambition.  It has also been the source of great concern when the promised bride decides to run off on her own with a groom or lover of her choice.  What’s a family to do? […]