Review: The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose

Sandrine Salome is running away to France. Her father has just died and her husband most likely had a hand in it.

She cannot continue to be in his house so she flees to Paris where her grandmother lives.

Sandrine used to live with her grandmother when she was younger but then she was whisked away when she was caught in a compromising situation with a boy.

Since then she has only seen her grandmother a handful of times but it’s almost like Paris is calling her home from America. When she arrives, her grandmother’s home is empty.

Her grandmother claims its due to renovations but Sandrine feels like she is hiding something. When she follows her grandmother one morning to the house, she meets a dashing architect….Julien.

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Review: What A Lady Needs For Christmas (MacGregors #4) by Grace Burrowes

So here we are….almost to the holiday season and I have yet to read a single holiday book though it was on my ‘to do’ this year for reading.

That’s when this book came along for review…..I was originally looking for something like Lauren Willig’s Mischief of the Mistletoe but hey….I’ll take what I can get!

Since this month seems to be romance novel month for me…I figured this was better than no holiday read!

Lady Joan Flynn is heading to the Highlands in order to escape a scandal. A potential client of her’s got her intoxicated and attempted to take liberties with her.

Now she is making a run for the Highlands before her reputation can be tarnished. There she decides she must find a husband by Christmas!

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Review: The Raven Prince (Princes #1) by Elizabeth Hoyt

I’ve recently read some pretty heavy novels so I think it was long over due for a fluff fest!

With December being so chilly and long, it often ends up being my steamy romance month. This month I’ve read a lot of historical romances of the ‘bodice ripper’ persuasion…and not necessarily on purpose.

I’ve never read anything by Elizabeth Hoyt so I didn’t really know what to expect.

She has been recommended to me by other historic romance fans and after looking through some of her titles, The Raven Prince caught my eye. I think mostly because I liked the title, it sounded interesting and it sounded almost like a fairy tale.

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Review: Secrets of a Scandalous Heiress (The Matchmaker Trilogy #3) by Theresa Romain

Augusta Meredith is creating scandal all over the place.

She has not only suffered and embarrassing and tragic love affair but she is also not mourning the death of her parents as society would expect.

She has fled to Bath where she assumes an identity to find herself a lover. While in Bath, she runs into Joss Everett who recognizes her, but he promises to keep her secret if she keeps his.

Joss is in Bath trying to locate a blackmailer for his cousin, who also happens to be his employer. Though Augusta propositions him to be her lover, Joss respectfully declines as he has his own agenda.

But the two decide to work together to at least discover the identity of the blackmailer.

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Review: An Affair Downstairs (Thornbrook Park #2) by Sherri Browning

Though not a baron himself, Logan Winthrop, is from a wealthy family. But he has a colored past. It’s rumored that he killed a man and now lives in shame as an estate manager at Thornbrook Park.

Things are more or less tolerable for Logan…that is until the feisty Lady Alice Emerson sets her sights on him.

Lady Alice has zero interest in marriage but her sister, The Countess of Aberford, intends to make an advantageous match for Alice one way or another.

Alice has a bucket list of sorts….travel and most importantly, have a lover. Nothing major or long term, she just wants to make love once so she can say she did it, and then move on.

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