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REVIEW of The Bridge to Belle Island by Julie Klassen

After Benjamin Booker loses a London court case due to the wiles of a beautiful woman, he’s determined not to make the mistake of trusting easily once again. His episodes of vertigo generally keep him from traveling, but when the retired partner of his law firm is murdered, he cannot refuse the journey to investigate…
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REVIEW of The Man in the Dark: A Romance by Douglas Wilson

A beautiful young school teacher, Savannah Westmoreland is the perfect catch for any marriageable man in the town of Paradise. But when she turns down the pretentious banker Lambeth once, twice, and even thrice, he decides to make her pay for his humiliation. The new pastor, Thomas Goforth, comes to Savannah’s aid, and it’s soon…
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REVIEW of On Wings of Devotion (The Codebreakers #2) by Roseanna M. White

Arabelle Denler has been alone her whole life. With her mother deceased and her father gallivanting about the world on explorations, she has been forced to throw herself into the work of nursing, dreaming of someday having love, affection, and a family of her own. But when Philip Camden, the dastardly pilot about to be…
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REVIEW of The Thief of Lanwyn Manor (Cornwall #2) by Sarah E. Ladd

Julia Twethewey was too obvious with her interest in a certain dashing young gentleman, and when he becomes engaged to another, she shamefacedly leaves the neighborhood to avoid embarrassment. Her cousin Jane, wife to a deployed military man, is on bedrest at Lanwyn Manor in Cornwall, and Julia goes to attend her as a companion…
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REVIEW of Nameless (Age of Conquest #3) by Tamara Leigh

When Sir Dougray loses his arm at the Battle of Hastings, he also loses his reasons for living. Illegitimate and now maimed, he is rejected by his intended bride. He bitterly turns to subjugating the Saxons who maimed him, helping his d’Argent brothers carry out the whims of William the Conqueror. But when a mistreated…
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REVIEW of The Major’s Daughter (Fort Reno #3) by Regina Jennings

When Caroline, the daugher of Major Adams, returns to the fort after her sojourn in high society, she finds that while she was too colloquial for Galveston she’s now considered too prim and proper for the prairie. Determined to find her own way in the world, she joins the hordes of people waiting to cross…
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REVIEW of Diamond in the Rough (American Heiresses #2) by Jen Turano

Poppy Garrison is more used to working on a horse farm than mingling with New York’s elite four hundred. When she accepts her estranged grandmother’s offer to give her a “season,” she soon discovers that her klutzy ways and outspoken manner make her stand out–and not in a good way. A visiting Englishman, Reginald Blackburn,…
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REVIEW of Courting the Countess by Donna Hatch
Richard, the Earl of Averston, is used to getting his brother Tristan out of scrapes. But when Tristan trifles with the daughter of a duke, Richard finds the duke’s demands to be a higher price than he’s ever been forced to pay. Rather than Tristan marrying the socially compromised Lady Elizabeth, Richard must do the honors. Although…
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REVIEW of Once Upon a Dickens Christmas by Michelle Griep

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REVIEW of The Captive Heart by Michelle Griep

When governess Eleanor Morgan rejects the advances of an English duke, she must take on an indenture to obtain hurried passage to the colonies. But when she arrives in Charles Town, she discovers that the backwoodsman who has paid for her passage is more interested in having a wife than a governess. Entrapped into a…