B Reviews1920s / Chicago / Harlequin Undone / Historical4 Comments
From stowaway… After years of playing the local gin joint to pay off his father’s debts, talented musician Brock Ness has landed a radio gig in Chicago. Now he’s on the up-and-up, his next stop is securing the dame of his dreams, Ginger Nightingale… …to Chicago celebrity! If Brock is ... 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 >
Book Reviews / C- Reviews / Featured1920s / American historical / Harlequin Undone / second chances / Ugly Duckling3 Comments
New York City, 1920s Bootleggers are breathing down hotelier Harry McMahon’s neck. So when a beautiful, young, and very wealthy widow from Paris turns up at the Cotton Club, Henry sees it as the perfect opportunity to combine business and pleasure. First he will take her body, then her heart, ... more >
B Reviews / B- Reviewsarranged-marriage / Harlequin Undone / Historical-China / novella / road-romance / Tang Dynasty1 Comments
Dear Ms. Lin, I’ve read several of your other books and enjoyed them—I liked your novella “Capturing the Silken Thief” (reviewed here). I also liked “An Illicit Temptation” but didn’t love it—it felt incomplete to me. I bet, however, if I’d read the companion novel, My Fair Concubine (reviewed here), I ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsChina / Harlequin Undone / Historical-China / Jeannie Lin / Tang Dynasty6 Comments
“Tang Dynasty China, 759 A.D. Yao Ru Jiang, known as River, has woven many romantic dreams of honorable swordsman Wei Chen from her brother’s stories. Their meeting should have been a happy event; instead, Chen arrives to tell River he is duty bound to kill her brother for rebelling against ... 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 >