Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

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Prologue
1810 – Scotland
The stone was hard and cold. Light in the church came from flickering candles next to the altar and [...]

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“Don’t move or I’ll kill you,”
This probably wasn’t the best start to a night Amicia ever had but she was pretty [...]

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Between one flicker of a dim street lamp and the next, a new being flashes into existence. The apparition slumps [...]

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Paris, 1890.
The important thing to remember when about to fight a duel for the honor of a beautiful woman is to [...]

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I’m still in one piece…
And more importantly, still alive. Hope’s rapid breaths churned with the Yukon air, creating a steam engine [...]

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Dorothy McNair relished the freedom that came with not being known as the “Richest Girl in the World” (the way the [...]

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The woman in his bed looked nothing like any groupie he’d seen before. He found that kind of intriguing. After twenty-five [...]