-
Giveaway: A Divided Inheritance by Deborah Swift
Get ready for some swash-buckling adventure in this thrilling and vivid historic novel! Take a ride through the splendid Spanish sun and back to London with an action packed historic novel! Thanks to Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tour and the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of A Divided Inheritance by Deborah Swift for your enjoyment! Giveaway runs 11/13/13 to 11/20/13 Winners will be announced 11/21/13. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so I can contact you….if you do not enter an email in the comments your entry will be void.…
-
Review: A Divided Inheritance by Deborah Swift
In 1609, Elspet Leviston plans on doing something most women wouldn’t dream of–she hopes to take over her father’s lace business. In an age where most women only care about finding husbands and having children, Elspet wants nothing more than the learn the trade. Since her father doesn’t have a male heir the odd of her taking over are pretty good–until a mysterious cousin shows up and starts helping her father with the lace business. Zachary Deane has basically come from nothing. His mother was a prostitute and with three children. They had little money to support themselves but she had high hopes for Zachary. She told him if anything happened…
-
Review: Dark Angel: A Gothic Fairy Tale by T.J. Bennett
Strong winds and storm surges batter the hull of a ship carrying the young widow Catherine Briton home to England. Catherine spots land and tells the captain that they should abandon ship and try to make it to the island. To her dismay the captain refuses and denies that he even saw the land. The ship eventually sinks and Catherine is left floating in the ocean waiting for death to overtake her. Instead of dying, she wakes up on the beach of the island she saw from the ship. A stranger rescues her and takes her back to his castle. When she awakes she finds that the man, Gerard, not…
-
Special Feature: Upcoming Holiday Reading Michele Gorman’s Christmas Carol
I always try and post about new upcoming cover reveals, author chats, and other literary related events and I know a lot of you are out there looking for new for your holiday reading lists! So I thought this sounded like a cheeky book to add to your holiday reading! Michele Gorman’s Christmas Carol is coming down the chimney on October 24th! Gorman is also the author of the hilarious chick lit series, Single in the City. This latest novella is a wickedly funny re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol. Here is a summary of the novella: One winter wedding, two happy couples, three ex-boyfriends… And a very uncomfortable weekend. Carol hates Christmas. Being…
-
Giveaway: Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener
Feast your eyes on the delicious new historic romance! Thanks to Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tour and the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener for your enjoyment! Giveaway runs 10/24/13 to 10/31/13 Winners will be announced 11/1/13. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so I can contact you….if you do not enter an email in the comments your entry will be void. Winners will be notified by email the day after the giveaway closes and have five days to respond, it not…
-
Review: Banquet of Lies by Michelle Diener
In Sweden one fateful night, the life of a young English woman changes forever. Giselle Barrington witnesses the murder of her father, a spy for the British crown. While in Sweden, Giselle’s (Gigi) father procures a dangerous document that if discovered could mean a political nightmare for England, France, Sweden, and Russia! It’s for this document he is killed for. He gave the document to Gigi to keep safe shortly before he will killed. After witnessing the murder Gigi knows three things–she must take the document safely back to England and second, the person who killed her father was also British which means there is a traitor in her father’s circle, and…
-
Review: Mrs Poe by Lynn Cullen
The greatest love affairs are between two souls that speak to each other in a language that no one else but them can understand. On a fateful night in 1845, Frances Osgood meets the most famous writer in all of New York society, the dark and mysterious Edgar Poe. From the moment they are introduced, Frances can’t help but feel a strange and unexplainable connection to Poe. A writer herself, they run in the same circles of New York society. At the time, Frances’s philandering husband has taken up with a rich divorcee and basically abandoned Frances and their children. Frances and the girls are staying at the home of…
-
Review: The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
1916 occupied France, a young artist named Edouard LeFevre, leaves his wife, Sophie, to fight in the Great War. Before he left, he painted her portrait and titled it ‘The Girl You Left Behind’. This painting has become her most prized possession. When her husband and is imprisoned, Sophie clings to the painting. Unfortunately the painting is admired by many in the small village…particularly the local Kommandant. He not only falls in love with the painting but with the real life subject as well and essentially holds Sophie captive. Sophie is soon faced with some tough decisions. She loves her husband desperately but she is stuck in an awkward situation with the Kommandant’s attention.…
-
Review: Covet by Tracey Garvis-Graves
What if the life you wanted, and the woman you fell in love with, belonged to someone else? Claire Canton is your typical suburban housewife. Her and her husband Chris live in a nice house in a nice suburb with their two kids. Claire is a freelance graphic designer and holds down the household while Chris is out bringing home the big pay check. Until he loses his job. A year passes and before they know it, Claire and Chris’s marriage is in serious trouble. Chris continues to pull away from Claire while Claire becomes increasingly lonely. One afternoon Claire gets pulled over by Officer Daniel Rush….who happens to be…
-
Review: His Last Mistress by Andrea Zuvich
The illegitimate son of King Charles II is nothing more than a treacherous rake with nothing to look forward to except war and whoring. For James Scott, the Duke of Monmouth life doesn’t get much better than drinking, fighting, and whoring…..but after many years of meaningless sex and one too many hangovers, Monmouth knows there must be something more to life. Sweet and innocent Lady Henrietta Wentworth has been brought up the way that every respectable girl at court should be…..virtuous. For a woman in Tudor England virtue is the most treasured of things next to position and wealth. Without her virginity a woman’s reputation and marriage prospects are ruined. For…