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…
Category: romance
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…