Harlequin American Romance

REVIEW: The Daddy Catch by Leigh Duncan

REVIEW: The Daddy Catch by Leigh Duncan

Jess Cofer isn’t fixing for a fight. All the single mom wants is to run her fly fishing shop and preserve unspoiled Phelps Cove, Florida, for future generations. Too bad Dan Hamilton doesn’t see it that way. It looks as if the tall, dark and sexy surgeon is in favor of handing over the endangered(…)

REVIEW: Second Chance Dad by Pamela Stone

REVIEW: Second Chance Dad by Pamela Stone

Dear Ms. Stone: This is my first time I’ve read a book of yours.   Second Chance Dad caught my eye because I am a fan of the second chance theme.   More of the story seemed centered around the second chances of Hanna Rosser, a recently divorced mother of Ashton, a sixth grade boy with growing(…)

REVIEW: His Valentine Surprise by Tanya Michaels

REVIEW: His Valentine Surprise by Tanya Michaels

“When six-year-old Vicki Hathaway emails a request for a new mommy to the entire PTA mailing list, there’s no end of trouble for interim principal Shay Morgan. Then bigger trouble walks into her office in the form of Mark Hathaway. Instant attraction. Mark hasn’t been called to the principal’s office since he was a kid.(…)

REVIEW: Family Matters by Barbara White Daille

REVIEW: Family Matters by Barbara White Daille

“Kerry Anne MacBride and her quirky family are a package deal-’get one, you get them all. The high school art teacher is stubborn and fiercely protective of her kin, making her the absolute wrong woman for a straitlaced, hardheaded, by-the-books lawyer like Matt Lawrence, no matter how attracted she is to him. And anyway, now’s(…)

REVIEW: The Officer’s Girl by Leigh Duncan

REVIEW: The Officer’s Girl by Leigh Duncan

Dear. Ms. Duncan, Living in the South, I keep a close eye on the weather during hurricane season. Like right now with Hurricane Earl twitching around out there. Having lived through hurricane damage to my house, I will never take an evacuation order lightly. Which is what caught my eye about the blurb for “The(…)

REVIEW: The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning

REVIEW: The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning

Dear Ms. Gunning, You are getting quite the reputation for writing detailed, women-centric books about Colonial life in America. “The Rebellion of Jane Clarke” is the third book which centers on the people of the village of Satucket on the island of Cape Cod and it takes us ever closer to the point where Britain(…)

REVIEW: Baby Bombshell by Lisa Ruff

REVIEW: Baby Bombshell by Lisa Ruff

Anna Berzani moved halfway across the country to get away from her overprotective family. When old friend and notorious playboy Evan McKenzie shows up in San Francisco, Anna feels that same nothing-but-trouble attraction she’d felt at sixteen. A night on the town leads to a few kisses, which leads to…a nine-month countdown! Practical Anna suggests(…)

REVIEW: The Baby Twins by Laura Marie Altom

REVIEW: The Baby Twins by Laura Marie Altom

Dear Ms. Altom, As someone who cheerfully admits that if I ever got on another airplane, I’d probably be the one who wigged out and caused the air marshals to be called in, the blurb of this book caught my attention. A heroine who freaks out at 30,000 feet. Hey, I can relate! The babies(…)

REVIEW: An Unexpected Father by Lisa Ruff

REVIEW: An Unexpected Father by Lisa Ruff

Dear Ms. Ruff, You have a way of getting me to read plots I normally wouldn’t be interested in. Secret babies in “Baby On Board” and now a troubled boy with an attitude in “An Unexpected Father.” But you haven’t let me down so I’ll keep reading… “After a decade on the road, single mom(…)

REVIEW: Samantha’s Cowboy by Marin Thomas

REVIEW: Samantha’s Cowboy by Marin Thomas

Dear Ms. Thomas, This is the last book in a trilogy that doesn’t read that way. Which is a relief to me as I hate jumping into a series and feeling over my head with past characters and situations. After reading the middle book, The Cowboy’s Promise, I knew the book on the hero’s brain(…)

REVIEW: Mistletoe Mommy by Tanya Michaels

Dear Ms Michaels, When I finished “Mistletoe Cinderella,” I knew I wouldn’t mind spending a little more time with the nice people of Mistletoe, Georgia. Good people who care about each other, genuine issues mixed with a little humor and a series that you don’t have to have read the previous books to follow along.(…)

REVIEW: The Cowboy’s Promise by Marin Thomas

REVIEW: The Cowboy’s Promise by Marin Thomas

Dear. Ms. Thomas, This is the second novel of yours I’ve read and I’m just as, if not more, impressed. Realistic setting, believable characters, conflict that is centered on the hero and heroine and, I can’t believe I’m saying this, two young children I adored. I think I need to go take my temperature after(…)

REVIEW: Baby On Board by Lisa Ruff

REVIEW: Baby On Board by Lisa Ruff

Dear Ms Ruff, Books with babies or pregnant women in them usually make me gag. Especially with cutesy covers that Harlequin seems prone to use. However, since I did like your first book “Man of the Year,” and there was the added bonus of a sports themed plot, I decided to quash my qualms and(…)

REVIEW: A Coal Miner’s Wife by Marin Thomas

Dear Ms Thomas, I predict quite a few people will be interested in this book. It’s a straight contemporary with none of the stock characters or situations that appear to predominate in that genre. What? No SEALs, no secret agents, no model glamorous heroines? Amazingly enough, not a single one of those is to be(…)