B Reviews / B+ Reviews / D Reviewsacross the tracks / doctor hero / France / Harlequin Historical / Historical / Scotland / War / Military / World War I3 Comments
AS WAR BLAZES ACROSS EUROPE, THREE COUPLES FIND A LOVE THAT IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO OVERCOME ALL THE ODDS… A KISS GOODBYE, 1914 As war looms, genteel Flora yearns to be more than just an observer. She finds a revolutionary kindred spirit in soldier Geraint—but will their fragile love be ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / ebook only / Harlequin Undone / Historical / movie-star / post WWI / short-story / silent movie7 Comments
Los Angeles, 1924 Broadway producer Lewis Cartsdyke has come to Hollywood with a business proposition for starlet Poppy Edwards. But as he’s watching her sing in a downtown club, dressed in a man’s suit that skims her lush curves, a much more wicked proposal comes to mind. Poppy has fame, ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1920s / actor/actress / ebook only / historical romance / London / post WWI / short-story14 Comments
Dear Ms. Kaye: I might not have started this if I’d realized it was part of the Harlequin Historical Undone line, and that would have been my loss. I think of Undones as short, sexy, frivolous stories; this is short and sexy, but far from frivolous. Five years after the ... more >
C ReviewsHarlequin / historical romance / Interracial / multicultural / Regency England / Series37 Comments
Dear Ms. Kaye: While I’m afraid I’m getting burned out on traditional European historicals, I’m always looking for novels with a different setting or unusual characters, and this book certainly fit the bill. It’s set in Regency England and is part of Harlequin Historical’s Castonbury Park series; the hero is ... more >
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Modern Love by edited by Daniel Jones I’m a long-time fan of the New York Time’s Modern Love column. I recently picked up this book which is a collection of some of the best posts from the past fifteen years. Some of them will break your heart–the now famous ones by ... more >
C Reviews20th century / England / Harlequin Undone / PTSD12 Comments
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 ... more >