Kaetrin: I admit the Westcott family tree is a little confusing to me at times so I appreciated that Balogh went back over the relevant history just enough for me to remember who Colin Handrich, Lord Hodges, was to Wren, the Countess of Riverdale and why they had been estranged ... more >
In the summer of 1919, British Ruby is mourning her beloved husband Bertie, missing since 1916. His grief-stricken parents ask one last task of her: travel to the Belgian battlefields to find Bertie’s grave, and with it the peace that will come with knowing his final resting place. Alice, an ... more >
Dear Ms. Rolls, Not long ago, I saw that Kelly (Instalove) had read and recommended your new Harlequin Historical, His Convenient Marchioness. I wasn’t familiar with your writing but Kelly mentioned that she enjoyed the book and that it had a fifty-year-old hero, and between those two factors, I decided ... more >
Rita Lakin was a pioneer a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years, in creative meetings, she was literally “the only woman in the room.” In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance, Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered ... more >
Dear Ms. Perry, Your novel first came to my attention when Robin, posting as Janet, reported that it won both Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. I waited impatiently for it to be published in the United States and then ... more >
Dear Ms. Balogh, Earlier this year, I blogged about Indiscreet and Unforgiven, the first two books in your Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series, which features four cavalry officers who served in the Napoleonic War. Irresistible is the third and final book in the series, concerning the last two horsemen, ... more >