Posts tagged with ‘romance’

  • “Too Many Cooks” by Shirley Ann Wilder Book Review

    By Ruth on August 27, 2012
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    Bitter news leads a San Diego widow and widower to true love—and to a scheme to marry off their adult children, a plan that goes deliciously awry. Gaetano Lorenzo was the sweetest man that the widowed Estelle Bennett had ever met. That morning began terribly, with awful news, but now the owner and head chef of a local San Diego […]
  • “Train Station Bride” by Holly Bush Book Review

    By Ruth on August 26, 2012
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    Title: Train Station Bride Author: Holly Bush Genre: Historical Romance Publisher: Book Baby Number of Pages: E Book, aprx 216 1887 Debutante, Julia Crawford endures a lifetime of subtle ridicule as the plump, silly daughter of a premiere Boston family. Julia strikes out on her own to gain independence, traveling to the Midwest to marry an aging shopkeeper and care […]
  • “The Fairy Tale Bride” by Kelly McClymer Book Review

    By Ruth on August 19, 2012
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    ABOUT THE BOOK Miranda Fenster, known throughout society as the Fairy Tale Miss because she insists that happily ever afters are possible even amongst the arranged marriages of the Victorian aristocracy,  is on a mission. Her goal? To rescue her brother. Her adversary? Simon Watterly, Duke of Kerstone. A man who almost offered for her five years before. Simon has a […]
  • “Colorado Silver, Colorado Gold” by Terry Irene Blain Book Review

    By Ruth on August 13, 2012
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    Synopsis: Socialite Juliette Lawson fled west from Philadelphia on a train and in disguise. In Colorado she’d be safe; she’d take work with her uncle at the Rio d’Oro, his smelting operation. Her actions back east had been wrong, but to protect her pregnant sister from scandal she would have done anything. Then she met a man as hungry for […]
  • “Romancing Olive” by Holly Bush Book Review

    By Ruth on July 12, 2012
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    In 1891, spinster librarian, Olive Wilkins, is shocked to learn of her brother’s violent death at a saloon gaming table and her sister-in-law’s subsequent murder, traveling far from her staid life to rescue her niece and nephew, now orphans. She arrives to find the circumstances of her brother’s life deplorable and her long-held beliefs of family and tradition, shaken. Accustomed […]
  • The Inconvenient Marriage of Charlotte Beck by Kathleen Y’Barbo Book Review

    By Ruth on January 16, 2012
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    Summary from goodreads: Unlikely romance is sometimes just an inconvenient marriage away   Charlotte Beck may be entering adulthood, but she can’t seem to keep to her stubborn, independent spirit from bucking social protocol. Fed up with her behavior, Charlotte’s father Daniel pressures her to settle into a nice marriage despite knowing she is set on going to college. Then Daniel […]
  • Book Review: “Secrets” by Jude Deveraux

    By Ruth on August 16, 2011
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    Summary from goodreads:  At age twelve, Cassandra Madden fell in love with Jefferson Ames, a young man she met at one of her mother’s business conferences. For years, Cassandra held on to this unrequited love in order to cope with her loneliness and the pain of her mother’s coldness; even after meeting a man she thought she might marry, her […]
  • “Mistletoe Magic” by Sophia James Bok Review

    By Ruth on June 8, 2011
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    Summary from goodreads: A paragon of virtue, Miss Lillian Davenport has an unrivaled reputation. So why has she offered to pay dangerous American, Lucas Clairmont, for a single kiss? Lucas refuses to be molded by society and often walks on the wrong side of right, but Lillian’s pure goodness and pale, correct life fascinate him. He senses that beneath the […]