B Reviews / Book Reviewsbeta hero / Contemporary / divorcee / England / First-Person / mothers and daughters / Seasons by the Sea seriesNo Comments
Welcome to the idyllic country retreat of Christmas Steepleton, and let Jane Lovering whisk you away with the most heart-warming, romantic and comforting read of the year. Leaving London and her ex-husband Luc behind, Katie and her 14-year-old daughter Poppy move into their very own, very ramshackle cottage near the ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsbeta hero / Category / Christmas / Contemporary / dog / lawyer / LGBTQIA romance / m/m romance / ThanksgivingNo Comments
Small dogs can make big changes… if you open your heart. Carter Embree always hoped someone might rescue him from his productive, tragically boring, and (slightly) ethically compromised life. But when an urchin at a grocery store shoves a bundle of fluff into his hands, Carter goes from rescuee to ... more >
B- Reviewsbeta hero / Christmas / friends-to-lovers / gender roles / holiday novella / novella / virgin hero22 Comments
Felicity Evans and Harry Walsh have been best friends forever, but lately, Felicity has noticed the looks Harry has been giving her. And she’s going to do something about it. Sex solves everything, or so she hopes. But she never knew Harry was a virgin—until now. Being snowbound in a ... more >
C- Reviewsbeta hero / closed bedroom door / family / Historical / Regency5 Comments
A horse breeder by trade, Corbin Jonquil is more at home in the stables than in the ballroom of his sprawling estate. Corbin is the quietest of the Jonquil brothers and has always faded into the background, contentedly unnoticed. When a mysterious young widow, Mrs. Clara Bentford, moves into the ... more >
B Reviewsbeta hero / Contemporary / Military / working class5 Comments
Six months ago, Tiffany Donnelly, failed musician turned diner waitress, was left just shy of the altar when her groom ran off with a bridesmaid. Now, verbally sparring with sexy Coast Guard rescue swimmer Travis Green is one of her few pleasures. In his dark eyes, there’s no pity for ... more >
Letters of OpinionAlpha hero / Anne Bishop / archetypes / beta hero / Dark Fantasy / genre critique / Romance17 Comments
One of the things I enjoyed most about the essays of Michelle Sagara and Elizabeth Vail on the alpha and beta heroes in Romance was the range of comments and interpretations of both heroic types. How could the same type produce so many different, and often conflicting, ideas of what ... more >