Review: Fresh Mint with Lemon by Monika Zgustová

Russian art critic, Vadim, sees a beautiful woman in a café one day and is immediately captivated by her beauty and sparkling aura.

There is something about her that draws him in– he soon discovers she is a well known artist, Patricia Pavloff, whose art he has long admired.

Every day he goes to the museum where her art work is on display. He is haunted by one specific painting, red tulips with black pistils that look like eyes.

In that painting there is an element of intrigue that he can’t ignore and he longs to meet the intoxicating beauty behind the art.

One day he gets his wish, he has a brief encounter in the museum with Patricia and from that moment on she becomes his obsession.

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Review: As Sweet as Honey by Indira Ganesan

On a tiny island in the Indian Ocean a young woman prepares for a wedding.

Meterling is about to do something completely against the social grain and break all kinds of traditional culture….this young Indian woman is going to marry an older Englishman.

On the day of her wedding, Meterling’s husband dies….right there during their first dance! Just as Meterling begins to deal with the death of her husband, she finds out she is pregnant.

Ostracized by the village for already being too tall, she is now a widow and having a baby out of wedlock.

Meterling’s husband, Archer, originates from England and he comes to the island of Pi to run a gin distillery. Archer loves everything about Pi, the flowers, the lifestyle, culture, and obviously the women.

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Announcement: Giveaway Winner Thwarted Queen by Cynthia Sally Haggard

And the winner of Thwarted Queen by Cynthia Sally Haggard is…..

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Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to Amy at Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours for making this giveaway possible!

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Announcement: Giveaway Winner There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmila Petrushevskaya

And the winner of  There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories by Ludmila Petrushevskaya is…..

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Review: And Only to Deceive (Lady Emily #1) by Tasha Alexander

Lady Emily Ashford is not in love with her new husband, the Viscount Philip Ashford. In fact she hardly knows him. So when she receives word that her husband died on safari in Africa, she can hardly morn a man she barely knows.

Emily married Philip to escape the constraints of her family and hoped that marriage would provide that. Now that she is a widow, she finds she has even more freedom than she did as a wife.

All of London society can’t stop singing the praises of Lord Ashford to Emily which makes her uncomfortable, but in an effort to at least try and morn the stranger she married, Emily listens to their stories.

She soon discovers that Philip was in fact wildly interesting and very much in love with her. Not only did Philip love to hunt on the “Dark Continent”, he was a romantic at heart with a love for Emily she has no idea existed; he also was a lover and collector of ancient antiquities and Greek literature.

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