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November 22, 2021

REVIEW: Summer Escapade by Charlotte Louise Dolan

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsfamily relationships / misunderstanding / novella / protection / Regency / Widowed Heroine2 Comments

Marigold Kinderley’s uncle kept her wrapped in cotton wool. So Lady Sylvia found a way to take Marigold home with her for summer break. When Terence Kinderley discovered Marigold missing, he assumed she had fled to the border with the dancing master. Sylvia’s mother Alicia discovered the deception. Though Alicia ... more >

November 12, 2021

REVIEW: Season of Us by Pamela Sanderson

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsathlete hero / dog / family relationships / Older-Woman-/-Younger-Man / POC author / pro athlete / soccer / Sports / traumatic-past / Widowed Heroine13 Comments

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Sunny. Sexy. Sweet. Shelly Paige has never been one to take risks. Even less so since the loss of her husband. She’s content to stay in the town she grew up in, surrounded by the safety of family. A lost dog leads her to a handsome young athlete and the ... more >

November 4, 2021

REVIEW: The Cowboy’s Christmas by Jeannie Watt

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / Contemporary / cowboy / family relationships / Montana / ranch / sweet romance / Widowed Heroine3 Comments

Christmas in Marietta, Montana, is a season of magic and second chances… Wayward cowboy Quinn Harding doesn’t have a secret—he is a secret. Or he was until his rancher brothers learned of his existence and insisted on meeting up. But Quinn’s reluctant—he’s always been a lone cowboy, enjoying his quiet ... more >

May 24, 2021

REVIEW: The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman

JayneBook Reviews / C Reviewsfamily relationships / First-Person / gardening / grief / Los Angeles / mothers and daughters / sisters / Widowed Heroine / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years—ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts later, she’s just starting to get the hang of this widow thing. She can now get her two girls to school, show up to ... more >

March 8, 2021

REVIEW: The Left Behind Bride: Nova Scotia (Canadian Historical Brides Book 10) by Mahrie Reid

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / bootlegging / Canada / Canadian Historical Brides series / Canadian history / Historical / Nova Scotia / Widowed Heroine / women's rights / Womens-Fiction7 Comments

Maggie Conrad’s husband of ten days is sent overseas in WW1 and never comes home. A second suitor is lost at sea in Nova Scotia’s August Gale. Turning thirty, and on her own, she resolves to make a life for her herself and her younger brother, Ivan. Against her wishes, ... more >

February 17, 2021

REVIEW: The Turncoat’s Widow by Mally Becker

JayneBook Reviews / C ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / American historical / American Revolution / American Revolutionary War / Historical / historical mystery / Widowed HeroineComments Off on REVIEW: The Turncoat’s Widow by Mally Becker

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she’s a Loyalist sympathizer who betrayed her husband to the British—quite a tidy way to end ... more >

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