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April 27, 2026

REVIEW: Navy Captain’s Convenient Wife by Carla Kelly

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsHarlequin Historical / historical romance / marriage-of-convenience / Napoleonic wars / Royal-Navy / War / Military / widower6 Comments

A Regency marriage of convenience, romance in uniform story A favor for the Captain… A new life as wife and mother? Battle-worn Captain John Beattie is dealt another blow on his return from Trafalgar. His motherless young son, Allan, has been heartlessly abandoned by those hired to care for him. ... more >

March 3, 2026

REVIEW: Better Than a Duke by Suzanne Enoch

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsHistorical / Humor / mistorical / Regency / single father / single mother / widow / widowerNo Comments

It takes more than Cupid to arrange a marriage in this sparkling Regency romcom where The Parent Trap crashes into Bridgerton as two precocious children decide to play matchmaker for their unsuspecting single parents. Beckett Raines, the Marquis of Hentrose, needs a wife, and he’s resigned to participating in the ... more >

October 14, 2025

REVIEW: Grace & Henry’s Holiday Movie Marathon by Matthew Norman

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsBaltimore / Contemporary / fiction with strong romantic elements / grief / Movies / single mother / widow / widower11 Comments

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A sentimental advertising creative and a blunt, no-nonsense bar owner find a second chance at love while binge-watching iconic holiday movies in this poignant and heartwarming romance, from the author of Charm City Rocks and All Together Now. The new year had barely begun when Grace White and Henry Adler ... more >

September 15, 2025

REVIEW: All’s Fayre in Love and War by Sheri Cobb South

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / family relationships / governess / Historical / Regency / Widowed Heroine / widower4 Comments

Determined not to be a burden to her family, twenty-seven-year-old widow Caroline Fayre Cummings takes a position of governess to the Earl of Westermain’s motherless children in order to provide for her six-year-old son. She soon discovers, however, that something is terribly wrong in the earl’s Park Lane establishment. Lord ... more >

August 1, 2025

REVIEW: Ellen Found by Carla Kelly

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewscats / found family / Historical / novella / turn of the 20th century / widower / working class / Wyoming2 Comments

Set in location of Old Faithful Inn, 1903-4. Working in a discouraging café, Ellen escapes an awful situation in rough and tumble Butte, Montana, and goes to work as second in command to a wary cook in the shell that will become Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone Park. She meets ... more >

January 30, 2024

REVIEW: Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviewsballet / Canada / disordered eating / hockey / NetGalley / single dad / toxic parent / widower3 Comments

Content notes: disordered eating, death of a spouse, toxic parent, anxiety, panic attacks Dear Jenny Holiday, Aurora (Rory) Evans studied ballet in New York but left after realising that the demands of the ballet world had resulted in her developing disordered eating and anxiety. Her toxic mother was extremely disappointed ... more >

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