Review: The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston

Morgana has no interest in marriage, especially to a man she hardly knows. She is different than most women….she’s as wild as the Welsh moors and would rather spend her days with her horses than in the company of society.

But her differences don’t end there, she hasn’t spoken a word since her fathers death when she was a child and to complicate matter further….she’s a witch.

So when her mother arranges a marriage to a local drover, Cai Jenkins, Morgana would love to protest but simply can’t. She knows her mother is sick and that she is lucky to find a husband at all, but she can’t help but feel trapped.

Cai has recently lost his wife who he loved dearly and has no desire to marry again but in his profession, a wife is a requirement. He happens to see Morgana on a recent drover trip and can’t help but be taken by her beauty and intrigued by her mysteriousness.

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Review: Return to Poughkeepsie (The Poughkeepsie Brotherhood #2) by Debra Anastasia

Beckett Taylor is a lot of things: friend, brother, lover, criminal, and murderer. He is all destruction and easily strikes fear in any that cross his path.

But yet under that tough exterior and dark past, there is a ray of hope that he isn’t all bad.

Poughkeepsie is home to three blood brothers–Cole, Blake, and Beckett.  In Return to Poughkeepsie we pick up with their continuing stories, romances, and lives.

While Cole and Blake still call Poughkeepsie home, Beckett has left town until he gets a phone call from Blake that will change everything. The love of Blake’s life, Livia has been kidnapped and a new gang has filled the hole that Beckett left behind.

Beckett has no choice but to return to Poughkeepsie and help his brothers and face his demons once and for all.

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Review: Girl on the Golden Coin: A Novel of Frances Stuart by Marci Jefferson

Being the king’s mistress was considered the pentacle of a courtesans career.

It was an offer that once made, could catapult the woman into a position with a lot of power and influence.

A king’s mistress could be in both the king’s bed and his head.

When the king tired of his mistress a suitable match would be found for her and once her favor went so did her influence.

For Frances Stuart this was a position she didn’t want to leave to the king’s whim.

Many women were lucky to get this offer from the king once, very few got the offer from more than one king on more than one occasion.

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Review: Anvil of God (The Carolingian Chronicles #1) by J. Boyce Gleason

In 741, the western world is in a state of upheaval.

Pagan religion is at its height in what is now known as France and Germany, but Christianity is quickly taking root and spreading like wildfire while Islam is threatening to be a major religious contender in the west.

Charles the Hammer has conquered the continent for the Merovingian kings but he secretly hopes that his children will become kings in their own right.

The only flaw in Charles’s plan is he is dying.

Before he dies, he plans on splitting the Frankish kingdom into three regions making his three sons mayors of each.

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Review: Cloaked in Danger by Jeannie Ruesch

Ballrooms and proper etiquette are not Aria Whitney’s area of expertise.  She is not your typical British debutante but rather a free spirit who prefers breeches over corsets and adventure over balls.

However, when her father goes missing she must force herself into the upper crust of English society to discover what happened. Her father disappeared while on an archaeological dig in Egypt.

When his trusted friend and colleague is gravely injured, there isn’t much hope that her father will be found alive but she must try and unravel the mystery.

The only thing that Aria has to go on in a list of rich benefactors in London society. Aria brazenly works her way into the balls but has unwillingly been labeled a title hunter.

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