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March 24, 2020

REVIEW: The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewsboss/secretary / Contemporary / Disabled Heroine / Marriage-in-Trouble / road-romance / secrets / workplace-romance4 Comments

… a delightfully charming love story about what happens when two assistants tasked with keeping a rocky relationship from explosion start to feel sparks of their own. Carey Duncan has worked for home remodeling and design gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade. A country girl at heart, ... more >

September 1, 2017

REVIEW: An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors by Curtis Craddock

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsDisabled Heroine / Fantasy / Historical / intelligence / political intrigue / strong heroine1 Comments

A delightful and engrossing fantasy debut featuring an intelligent heroine and her guardian, a royal musketeer. In a world of soaring continents and bottomless skies, where a burgeoning new science lifts skyships into the cloud-strewn heights, and ancient blood-borne sorceries cling to a fading glory, Princess Isabelle des Zephyrs is ... more >

January 21, 2017

REVIEW: The Broken Wing (Warrender Saga Book 2) by Mary Burchell

JayneBook Reviews1960s / Boss-Secretary / cinderella / classical music / Disabled Heroine / England / Historical / Opera Singer / performance / performers / Warrender Saga8 Comments

Is Tessa always to be overshadowed? Tessa Morley has spent her entire life in the shadow of her beautiful and bewitching twin sister Tania. Unlike Tania, whose vivacious beauty and outgoing personality have ensured that she is forever in the limelight, Tessa lacks her sister’s confidence and has always been ... more >

May 28, 2015

REVIEW: Dearest Rogue by Elizabeth Hoyt

JayneC+ Reviewsclass-difference / disability / Disabled Heroine / England / Georgian / Historical / military hero8 Comments

HE CAN GUARD HER Lady Phoebe Batten is pretty, vivacious, and yearning for a social life befitting the sister of a powerful duke. But because she is almost completely blind, her overprotective brother insists that she have an armed bodyguard by her side at all times-the very irritating Captain Trevillion. ... more >

February 9, 2015

REVIEW: The Parfit Knight (Rockliffe Book 1) by Stella Riley

JayneA- Reviews / Recommended Reads18th-century / blind heroine / Disabled Heroine / England / Historical / Rockliffe Series21 Comments

Recommended Read

Blinded by a childhood accident, Rosalind Vernon lives a sheltered existence with only servants and her parrot for company. The arrival of the Marquis of Amberley with his wounded coachman during a blizzard will change her life. But can Amberley overcome the dark secret that haunts him and how will ... more >

December 1, 2014

REVIEW: Without Words by Ellen O’Connell

JayneA- Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century / American historical / Disabled Heroine / Historical / Reconstruction / western18 Comments

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Bounty hunter Bret Sterling kills Rufus Petty, thief and murderer, less than ten feet away from a frightened, half-starved woman. Rufus should have surrendered. The woman should have kin to help her. But Rufus went down shooting, and the woman has no one. Bret figures by the time he finds ... more >

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