B Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / enemies to lovers / murder mystery / shipboard6 Comments
Elaine Tracy wins a luxury cruise to Las Palmas for her fiancé and herself. They quarrel, and Elaine breaks off the engagement but decides to go on the cruise alone. Attractive and unattached, once on board she inevitably draws a certain amount of masculine attention and for her the holiday ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / Caribbean / Florida / Historical / LGBTQ / pirates / POC / shipboard / slaveryNo Comments
Hijacking an Englishman from a brothel is all in a day’s work for Captain Mattie St. Armand. She needs protective coloration, and a naïve (and expendable) white man will keep the eyes of the authorities off her as she smuggles slaves from the Florida Territory to freedom in the Bahamas. ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsArgentina / California / cowboy / heiress / historical romance / immigration / shipboard / turn of the century2 Comments
Dear Ms. Turner, I’m not a fan of cowboys, for multiple reasons. But when I saw that your new historical romance, The Gaucho’s Lady, was set in Argentina, I requested it for review despite the fact that the hero was a gaucho, South America’s answer to a cowboy, because an ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1960s / American heroine / Greek / Historical / Light Romantic Suspense / shipboard4 Comments
In 1961, young schoolteacher Robin Fletcher is delighted to accompany her widowed aunt on a cruise from Barcelona to Venice–a voyage whose ports of call include some of the great cities of Europe. On her first night at sea, Robin is awakened by the moonlight flooding through her stateroom window. ... 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 >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsCommoner Aristocracy pairing / Contemporary / England / family relationships / opposites attract / screwball-comedy / shipboard / WriterComments Off on REVIEW: The Importance of Being Alice by Katie MacAlister
Nothing about Alice Wood’s life is normal right now. Her fiancé, Patrick, called off their wedding and relationship only days before their nonrefundable wedding trip. And though a luxurious European river cruise for one is just what she needs, it’s not what she gets…. Due to a horrible misunderstanding, Alice ... more >
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