Dear Author: Romance Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Commentary

Dear Ms Cach,

I said that this was one of my favorites and I’m finally writing a letter why. This has all the ingredients that make me love The Changeling Bride. Great hero, great heroine, fun, humor, everything.

George is a pro wrestler whose new age sister somehow transports him back in time while she’s trying to hypnotize him. He winds up in a small English village that has been paying a yearly virgin tribute to a dragon for 30 years. Only one of the virgins, Alizon, fought back 12 years ago and has been saving each year’s new offering, keeping them safe and hidden on the island where the dragon lives. They may be safe but they’re also trapped as the superstitious villagers would stone them if they tried to return. Alizon’s old friend has called on magic for a hero to slay the dragon in order to protect her own daughter and George is who she got.

George is great. I love this man. He has a great sense of humor and a tender heart underneath all that shiny, silver stretch Lycra. He’s intelligent, kind, cleans up after himself and can …

Dear Ms Cach,

While this isn’t one of my favorites, I still enjoyed it. I remember it being a departure from the other books you had published then by virtue of it having no paranormal elements, despite the title. However, as several reviews stated, a reader does need to suspend a little belief in order to completely buy into the story.

Konstanza Bugg fled to the coast of Cornwall after two years of marriage to a much older man her dying mother had begged her to marry. John Bugg has turned out to be a thoroughly vile and disgusting man with perverted tastes who’s latest sexual trick to try is tying Konstanza up and using his riding crop on her. Well, enough is enough and Konstanza flees with her maid Hilde to a recently inherited cottage in distant Cornwall. There she tries to live simply and keep a low profile.

Unfortunately, Konstanza is seen one day while taking a swim and exercising the lovely voice she inherited from her opera singing mother. The local excise man, portrayed as more than a little gullible, has seen …

Dear Ms Cach,

I told you this was one of my favorites of your older books and here’s my gushing fangrrl letter about it.

Oh. My. God. This book is a winner. Screamingly funny heroine with a nose ring and a pink dye job is contacted by a secret organization known as B. L.I. S. S. Evil but, surprisingly shy looking, Dr. Alan Archer (a man out of Rachel Calais’s past) is out to find the legendary lost Nepalese mountain valley of Yonam, where a type of lichen grows that can bring any woman to her knees then flat on her back. Yes, my friends, it’s a sex drug.

Along with a grab bag of super cool gadgets, Rachel has Harrison Wiles. He’s a smooth, handsome, B. L. I. S. S. agent with a devastating British accent. Rule Britannia! Can they stop Alan from getting his hands on the Yes drug and ruining the lives of women everywhere? Will they realize how much they love each other as they trade snippy comments across the dangerous mountain passes? Will they pass up the chance to get their hands all over each other on these dangerous mountain …

Dear Ms Cach,

You had promised us a funny book and “The Erotic Secrets of a French Maid” delivers. At least for me it did. Fun yet intelligent characters, a plot that sticks to the point and true love — what’s not to like?

Emma Mayson has decided to clean houses to pay the bills while she searches for a job doing what she really wants. With a master’s degree in architecture you’d think she’d be able to find a job with a firm but so far, no joy. So to keep herself focused on the prize, she’s avoided venturing off into other fields which could distract her, make her forget current building codes and eventually turn her into an architectural “wanted to have been” rather than a wannabe. Plus going into other people’s houses lets her scope their design and layout.

Russell Carrick, wealthy start-up businessman, doesn’t really need anyone to clean his enormous Seattle home since he’s rarely there but he views his sister’s insistence on hiring someone to do it as her way of protecting him. Yeah, after the sudden death of their brother, her ideas of protection …

Dear Ms Cach,

I’ve been following your writing career for years now and one thing’s for certain, you don’t just write the same old same old. Even when you revisit certain themes, such as ghosts, you handle the issue in a new and different ways. This time at bat we have a contemporary story, set in Seattle, featuring a hero and heroine battling spirits in his old, derelict mansion.

Case Lambert is obviously ill at ease when he enters Megan Barrows’ antique store. After wandering around a little, he finally gets down to business and starts to ask Megan some odd questions, almost as if he’s testing her. Megan goes along with him until he finally mentions the real reason for his visit. A former, a very former, acquaintance of Megan is now working with Case to try to discover what’s going on in the huge, Victorian house he’s just bought to renovate. Eric told Case that Megan might be able to help figure out who’s been moving things, making noises, fooling with the electricity, crawling into bed with him among other things. At first Case’s skeptical attitude plus the mention of Eric makes Megan say …