They used to be close; friends and maybe, before he left, on the road to becoming something more. But after his father’s death, Paul Fraser was forced to leave his Highlands home and could only keep in contact with Juliette Andrews through letters and rare visits home. Their letters brought them even closer until, Paul thought he’d earned the right to ask the baron’s daughter to become his wife – although he was only a doctor, with no noble titles to his name, he was […]
… to overlook kidnapping in favor of a title, a handsome face, and maybe some true love?
“We’re going to get us some brides!” So declares Taran Ferguson the (drunken) laird of the Ferguson Clan on a winter’s night in Scotland, 1819. Only, perhaps he shouldn’t have meant it quite so literally, as he returns to his castle, in the midst of a snowstorm, bearing a carriage full of 4 young ladies (and 1 unexpected Duke), for his nephews to choose a bride from. The nephews – Byron, Earl of Easton, and Robin, Comte de Rocheforte and heir to Taran’s lands – […]
“He kissed her like she knew she was meant to be kissed.
He smelled of gardens, tricked her brain into believing she was irresistible, and made the idea of falling in love seem possible again. … Also, he turned out to be a jackass.” I’m having a slight difficulty writing this review because I saw the movie after I read the book (as is universally accepted practice), but I disliked the movie so much that I’m finding it’s clouding my impressions of the book somewhat. So I’m going to do my best to keep that bias out […]
Writer Friends Series
I’m going to be discussing a series of books – all part of Rachel Gibson’s Writer Friends series- and, naturally, the summaries for the next books might have spoilers for the previous books: just a brief warning before we start. Also, I may have cursed once or twice because one of the heroes royally pisses me off. In Sex, Lies & Online Dating, a crime-novelist using online dating to research her next book happens to overlap with an undercover cop on the lookout for a serial-dating, serial […]