Romance

With this volume, Kaye Dacus completes her series The Brides of Bonneterre about three members of the large and prestigious Guidry family. In

Olivia Wallace is approaching her fiftieth birthday. Now probably this isn’t the kind of major milestone we look forward to–at least it wasn’t for me!–but we’re all going to get there sooner or later if we live long enough. But Olivia has a special dread for it, because she has a ‘birthday curse.’ Something has…

Christmas Peril is a collection of two inspirational romantic suspense novellas by two wonderful women I met at the ACFW conference last September. I received this book as a gift from Debby Giusti with no requirement to post a review, but I enjoyed it enough that I wanted to do so. The novella titles themselves…

I love book trailers. How about you? They give me a glimpse into how a story is meant to be perceived. I saw this one after I’d read Love Finds You in Holiday, Florida and it captures the fun of the novel totally: Sandie Bricker calls herself an author of Laugh-Out-Loud Inspirational Fiction and I…

Welcome to the world of romantic suspense: Mackenzie Thorn looked up just in time to see two men walk into her classroom. One of them, a guard, nodded at his coworker stationed inside the door, and kept his hand at the elbow of the taller man next to him. This man, clad in an orange…

Since I’ve begun reading books in Harlequin’s Steeple Hill imprint in the last several years, I’ve been thinking hard about the various story parts that have to come together to make a good romance novel work. There’s that whole bit about them each needing to have some kind of baggage, something that keeps them apart…