Category: Romance
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Little Black Dress Books (Informal) Challenge
Little Black Dress was an imprint of Headline Publishing and specialized in chick lit(ish) books. Little, cute one’s. Some years ago I challenged myself to read all of their back catalog. Problem was, they released new books in the series faster than I could read them so I got sidetracked. I recently came across another…
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Review – The Queen’s Promise by Lyn Andrews
Kindle: 496 pagesPublisher: HeadlinePublication date: 28 Feb 2013 ASIN : 075538671X Alluring Anne Boleyn knows she is required to use her charm to her advantage – and secure the status of her family at the Tudor court. She easily captivates the noblemen, most notably Henry Percy, future Earl of Northumberland and, hopeful of her father’s approval,…
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Review – The Greatest Love Story of All Time by Lucy Robinson
Paperback: 496 pagesPublisher: Penguin Publication date: 12 April 2012 ISBN-13 : 978-0241952986 It’s Fran’s thirtieth birthday and things are good . . . She’s bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his…
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Review – Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer
Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: William Morrow Publication date: 02 Apr 2013ISBN13: 9780062007476 Queenie Wake, a country girl from North Star, Texas, has just been fired from her job as a chef for not allowing a customer to use ketchup. Again. Now the only place she has to go is home to North Star. She can hope,…
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DNF – The Rich are Different by Susan Howatch
Kindle: 566 pagesPublisher: SphereFirst Publication date: 15 Mar 1977ISBN – 9780751553123 First lines – “I was in London when I first heard of Dinah Slade. She was broke and looking for a millionaire, while I was rich and looking for a mistress. From the start we were deeply compatible.” 1983 Synopsis – Dinah Slade was young…
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Review – The Future for Curious People
Paperback: 317 pages Publisher: Pan Books Publication date: 02 Sept 2014 ISBN: 978-1444770360 What if you could know your romantic future? What if an envisionist could enter the name of your prospective mate into a computer that would show you a film of your future life together? In The Future for Curious People, a young…
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Review – Once a Ferrera Wife by Sarah Morgan
Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Harlequin Presents #3043 Publication date: Feb 2012ISBN13: 9780373130498 For better…or for bedding? Laurel Ferrara wouldn’t know a happy ending if she fell over it – of course her whirlwind wedding was always going to end in disaster. But it wasn’t as simple as just walking away. From the moment she is summoned…
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Review – Cowboy Take Me Away by Jane Graves
Kindle: 428 pages Publisher: Forever Publication date: 28 April 2013ISBN13: 9781455515196 FIRST LOVE BURNS HOTTER Rainbow Valley, Texas, has always been a refuge for animals, and Shannon North, director of the local shelter, intends to keep it that way. But with donations drying up and more pets in need of a loving home than ever…
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Review – True Love by Jude Deveraux
Paperback: 516 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication date: 27 May 2014ISBN13: 9780345541819 Just as Alix Madsen is finishing up architectural school, Adelaide Kingsley dies and wills her, for one year, the use of a charming nineteenth-century Nantucket house. The elderly woman’s relationship to the Madsen family is a mystery to the spirited Alix—fresh from a…
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Review – Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Corgi childrens ISBN: 978-0552546126 First Line – “Her laugh turned to a moan at the first ripple in her bones.” Vivian, at 16, is a beautiful young werewolf with all the young wolves in her pack howling for her. But then she falls in love with a human. If she reveals…