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September 11, 2017

REVIEW: Raw Heat by Cherrie Lynn

KaetrinB Reviews / Book Reviewsaccountant / BDSM / Contemporary / gambling / poker4 Comments

Dear Cherrie Lynn, Raw Heat is the third book in your Larson brothers series, featuring the youngest Larson, Damien. Damien is a very successful poker player, holding a number of “bracelets” (which I gather is some kind of poker trophy) and the owner/operator of a successful nightclub in Houston, Players. ... more >

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean
February 4, 2013

REVIEW: One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean

DabneyC Reviews / C+ Reviewsgambling / Regency Romance / Scientist15 Comments

Dear Ms. MacLean: The day before I wrote this review I was stuck in the library of a large public high school, waiting to be called to a debate tournament. I was there for eight hours and only judged one match. The rest of the time I spent re-reading One ... more >

A Gentleman Undone by Cecelia Grant
June 4, 2012

REVIEW: A Gentleman Undone by Cecilia Grant

JanetB- Reviewscourtesan / gambling / Historical / London / Regency England22 Comments

Dear Ms. Grant: Your debut novel, A Lady Awakened, is one of my favorite Romances of the past year. So I was particularly excited to read A Gentleman Undone, not only to catch up with the delightfully perverse Martha and her new husband, Theo, but also to discover if Martha’s ... more >

A gentleman undone grant
May 30, 2012

REVIEW: A Gentleman Undone by Cecilia Grant

DabneyB+ Reviews / Recommended Readsgambling / historical romance / Recommended Reads / shame22 Comments

Recommended Read

Dear Ms. Grant: As I read your novel A Gentleman Undone I brooded over words from one my favorite 18th century wordsmiths, the great Alexander Pope: “Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.” Here Pope asserts honor and shame are products of ... more >

In Total Surrender Anne Mallory
October 10, 2011

REVIEW: In Total Surrender by Anne Mallory

lazaraspasteC+ Reviewscriminal / gambling / Historical Romances / Regency England18 Comments

Dear Ms. Mallory, I have been anticipating the release of your novel, In Total Surrender, since I read about the Merrick brothers in your last effort, One Night Is Never Enough. There’s just something about a pair of intellectual thugs that gets my blood pumping. In Total Surrender is Andreas ... more >

A Betting Chance by Lynne Connolly
November 22, 2010

REVIEW: A Betting Chance by Lynne Connolly

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsacross the tracks / England / gambling / Georgian / Historical Romances / lynne-connolly / Samhain-publishing13 Comments

Sapphira Vardon needs five thousand pounds to avoid a cruel marriage and a grim future, and there’s only one path for her. Don a mask and an assumed name, and risk everything to win at the gaming tables. First, though, she has to get through the door. Luckily she knows ... more >

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