B Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / American historical / French and Indian War / Historical / inspirational / lighthouse keeper / Royal-Navy / second chance at love / smallpox / Virginia4 Comments
It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she’s never quite recovered. But ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAnthology / Australia / British Navy / doctor hero / England / Historical / holiday novella / mathematics / Regency / Royal-Navy / War / Military / Widowed Heroine3 Comments
Even the squared away, efficient Royal Navy must surrender to the joys and misadventures of a Regency Christmas. Four stories shine a light on Christmas during the Napoleonic Wars on land and sea – In Boxing the Compass, a homesick frigate captain shepherding a convict convoy to Australia wants nothing ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican Navy / England / Historical / inspirational romance / Royal-Navy / Sunrise at Normandy series / War / Military / World War II4 Comments
In 1944, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton arrives in London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France. He works closely with Dorothy Fairfax, a “Wren” in the Women’s Royal Naval Service. Dorothy pieces together reconnaissance photographs with thousands of holiday snapshots of France–including those of her own family’s ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews18th-century / Historical / pirates / Royal-Navy / shipboard2 Comments
Never underestimate the power of a pirate . . . Captain James Steele is duty bound to capture the privateer Scarlet Night and bring her rebellious crew to England to hang. Then he will leave his majesty’s service, make an upstanding marriage, and join the landed gentry. But the winds ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads17th-century / marriage-of-convenience / Restoration England / Royal-Navy / Stuart-England / swashbuckler / War / Military19 Comments
It is 1666 – the year when people who take prophecy seriously believe that the world is going to end. For Chloe Herveaux – twenty years old, half-French and practical – marriage to wild, unpredictable Alex Deveril offers escape from a home she hates. For Alex, it is a refuge ... more >
C- ReviewsCarina Press / Historical / m/m / m/m romance / Royal-Navy16 Comments
“Kingston, Jamaica, 1752 Robert Hughes, a lieutenant–and rogue–in the British Royal Navy, is in love with his gorgeous fellow officer, Hal Morgan. Hal only has eyes for their captain–a man who’ll never share their inclinations. Night after night aboard the Swiftsure, it kills Robert to listen to Hal’s erotic dreams ... more >