Make sure to check out my reviews this week on both of their latest books.
In the mean time, check out this join post/conversation from both authors about becoming incidental writing experts!
Continue reading “Guest Post: A Conversation with Rhys Bowen & Tasha Alexander”
Lady Emily and her husband, the dashing Colin, are enjoying their evening out at an exclusive costume ball.
A strange encounter with a masked man leaves Emily scratching her head.
She was certain that she was the only Artemis at the ball but clearly the masked man was expecting a different sort of Artemis.
Well the only other Artemis at the ball is the eccentric Estella Lamar. Estella hasn’t been seen in society for years. She is known for her world travels and is rarely….if ever…..seen in society.
Emily’s long time friend Cecile knows Estella well from a childhood spent together. When Cecile sees Estella at the ball, she knows she’s a fraud. Someone is impersonating Estalla…..but why?
Continue reading “Review: The Counterfeit Heiress (Lady Emily #9) by Tasha Alexander”
Jenni’s has lived in the shadows most of her life. She is an accomplished ghost writer where she never gets any recognition for her work.
She is in a tedious relationship with her boyfriend of two years. She never wanted to have children but did hope to get married one day.
All of her friends are getting married and having families and she does feel a little left out.
Her boyfriend soon starts pressuring her to have children but she refuses. She has been harboring a childhood secret and can’t bare to share it with him.
At a friend’s wedding, Jenni receives an offer to ghost write a woman’s memoirs. It comes at a good time and her and her boyfriend decide to take a break to sort things out.
The only issue is, the woman lives in the Cornish coastal town of Polvarth. The same town where tragedy befell Jenni as a girl.
Continue reading “Review: Shadows Over Paradise by Isabel Wolff”
Actress Jennifer “Jenny” Leighton is a struggling actress in occupied Manhattan during the American Revolution.
She is living with her aunt who is a big name British actress. Jenny hopes to make a name for herself as a play write and gain an influential British patron.
The only man in Manhattan that might be able to give Jenny the patronage, General John Burgoyne, is sequestered on his ship as his staff fear that American rebels will kill him if he makes an appearance in the city.
Jenny has heard the rumors about General Burgoyne…he is quite the ladies man. Knowing that he will likely try to seduce her instead, Jenny must make a choice.
Continue reading “Review: Mistress Firebrand (Renegades of the Revolution) by Donna Thorland”
Please join Janet Lane as she tours the blogosphere for Tabor’s Trinket, the first book in the Coin Forest Series, from January 26-February 20.
Publication Date: September 1, 2014
Dreaming Tree Publishing, LLC
eBook; 335p
ASIN: B00N9JVRD8
Series: The Coin Forest Series, Book One
Genre: Historical Romance/Medieval
Love proves perilous in this “Pretty Woman/Pride and Prejudice” historical romance tale set in 15th century England.
Sold as a slave in Romania for seven pounds and three solidi, the Gypsy girl, Sharai, escapes a slave ship infected with the plague. As an adult, she performs her silky, exotic dances to earn enough to sustain herself and the toddling orphan girl she adopted. She yearns for relief from the grinding poverty, and a secure home. Having been violated by a nobleman posing as her hero, she wants naught of any other man of title, and also scorns the dubious Gypsy king who pursues her. In a tent at the bustling autumn fair in Winchester, she meets the dashing Lord Tabor, and her resolve to avoid all noblemen softens.
Though possessed of a stately castle with prosperous lands, the English knight,Tabor, teeters on the brink of losing all his holdings. A powerful noble has attacked Tabor’s castle, determined to seize his lands. Tabor seeks revenge for his older brother’s murder, but England’s throne is held by an infant king and his feuding uncles. The realm is paralyzed with uncertainty and lawlessness, and the crown has abandoned him.
Then a stroke of good fortune helps Tabor, a sizeable dowry that can save his holdings. He need only wed an earl’s daughter, the regal Lady Emilyne. But he has already fallen in love with Sharai, and they are locked in a powerful dance of desire. His refusal to abandon Sharai plunges them into life-and-death struggles–and a painful choice between duty and love.
Continue reading “Special Feature: TABOR’S TRINKET by Janet Lane”
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