Harlequin Undone

REVIEW:  An Illicit Temptation by Jeannie Lin

REVIEW: An Illicit Temptation by Jeannie Lin

Dear Ms. Lin, I’ve read several of your other books and enjoyed them—I liked your novella “Capturing the Silken Thief” (reviewed here). I also liked “An Illicit Temptation” but didn’t love it—it felt incomplete to me. I bet, however, if I’d read the companion novel, My Fair Concubine (reviewed here), I would have appreciated your novella(…)

REVIEW:  The Lady’s Scandalous Night by Jeannie Lin

REVIEW: The Lady’s Scandalous Night by Jeannie Lin

“Tang Dynasty China, 759 A.D. Yao Ru Jiang, known as River, has woven many romantic dreams of honorable swordsman Wei Chen from her brother’s stories. Their meeting should have been a happy event; instead, Chen arrives to tell River he is duty bound to kill her brother for rebelling against the warlord they both serve.(…)

REVIEW: Temptation is the Night by Marguerite Kaye

REVIEW: Temptation is the Night by Marguerite Kaye

England, 1924 It had been love at first sight when Jack Damarell, the Eighth Earl of Crieff, and American artist Lindsey van der Maier met on the steamer to England. Their marriage had been filled with white-hot passion—until Jack’s dark memories of the trenches drove them apart. Now Lindsey has returned, and Jack has resolved(…)

REVIEW: Capturing the Silken Thief by Jeannie Lin

REVIEW: Capturing the Silken Thief by Jeannie Lin

“Tang Dynasty China, 823 A.D. Musician Jia needs a valuable book of poems by a famous courtesan to buy her freedom…and she believes Luo Cheng has taken it. Her attempt to steal the book from him fails, but the tall and powerful scholar unexpectedly offers to help her quest! But when they finally find the(…)

REVIEW: Shipwrecked and Seduced by Amanda McCabe

REVIEW: Shipwrecked and Seduced by Amanda McCabe

Dear Ms. McCabe, I think this is an example of one of the best titles I’ve seen in a long time. Why? Because it basically covers just about everything in the plot. Like the first of the new Harlequin Undone line I read, “Libertine Lord, Pickpocket Miss” by Bronwyn Scott, it’s a short story –(…)

REVIEW: Libertine Lord, Pickpocket Miss by Bronwyn Scott

REVIEW: Libertine Lord, Pickpocket Miss by Bronwyn Scott

Dear Ms. Scott, I noticed the new category of Harlequin Historical this month called “Harlequin Undone.” I assume this is sort of a historical novella kind of thing as this story (in Microsoft Lit) formatted to 101 pages on my reader. I also assumed that it would skew more towards erotic romance though that didn’t(…)