I enjoyed this fun, light romantic novel. I was intrigued by the Egyptian setting in the early 1900s. I know very little about the location and time period so I picked up many interesting facts. The main characters, Ginesse and Jim, are entertaining and the development of their relationship ke...
This book has been languishing on my Kindle in the TBR pile for almost 3 years. Now that I've read it, I'm admonishing myself for not reading it sooner, what a fun book!Ginesse is smart, independent, adventurous and kind of accident prone. I loved her. She and Jim had great chemistry. I enjoy...
Entertaining? Yes, if you ignore annoying TSTL moments and hero's tendency to poor-woe-is-me i-am-not-worthy insecure introspections."As You Desire" is one of the classic historical romances. If that's one of your favorites and you pick this up thinking to relive it, this sequel will disappoint....
Avery Quinn has had an unorthodox upbringing for the offspring of the Marquise of Strand's gamekeeper. Educated far beyond expectations, Avery's sole ambition is to become a member of the Royal Astronomical Society; the only problem being the Society is male only, and Avery is a woman. Enter Gile...
I don't understand how there could be ANY negative reviews for this book. I admit, I didn't know this was part of a series and read it as a stand alone....but I loved it. I thought that Giles and Avery were incredibly well developed characters and the other character's issues (Neville w/ his mom...
The hero debunks magical frauds for a living and the woman was such a fraud with her deceased husband before starting a new life in Scotland as a governess. Turns out, however, she is a witch with her emotions connecting to animals. Her charge has received death threats and her guardian has sent ...
Jenna Lind, transplanted from her posh Raleigh penthouse to frozen Fawn Creek, Minnesota, wants to get herself into a good college and escape. She hopes that winning the Butter Queen crown will do the trick. But she loses. And worse yet, she has to have a sculpture of her head carved in butter di...
I started this book a bit apprehensive. I didn't really care for Fia in the first two books and wasn't sure what to expect in this book. First, I am so glad Ms. Brockway started with a prologue. It gave me a new view of Fia. So many of my preconceived notions about her where dispelled. I really ...
Connie Brockway sweeps readers back to the rough beauty of Regency-era Scotland and into the scintillating, passionate, and surprising love story of a mysterious Highlander and the woman he is pledged to protect. Desperate to keep her two sisters and herself from the poorhouse, Kate Nash Blackb...
Well. I wrote a review, but it never got posted. Let's try this again.This is a romance book, but it is also a book about choices and sacrifice. At least three of the characters in this book had to make choices and sacrifices that destroyed their reputations and their credibility to achieve a go...
This book teetered between 2.5 and 3 stars for me for a good part of the story. The author is an excellent writer, but I just don't like a plot where the heroine keeps a secret from the hero for most of the book, even if her reasons are well justified (as they were here). However, the ending (th...
A woman compelled. . . In the glittering world of Regency England, Anne Wilder played a dangerous game. A widowed lady by day, by night she became a masked thief preying on society's elite. She roved high above London's black rooftops, compelled by phantoms from her past to take ever greater r...
Raine: The Reckless One Raine Merrick's wild reckless spirit had earned him time in a French prison. When a mysterious beauty gains his freedom only to betray him, Raine Merrick sets out for his father's castle on McClairen's Isle, seeking the treasure hidden within. But strange surprises await ...
Kidnapped, drugged, and about to be sold to the highest bidder, Desdemona Carlisle is having a hell of a time maintaining her English pride. Then she sees the man in black, galloping through the Egyptian desert on a pure white steed. Desdemona could not have conjured a more dashing savior in her ...
Long ago, a poor servant girl created an exquisite wedding gown for her haughty mistress, who was to marry the man that the girl loved with all her heart. Though tempted to stop the marriage using her secret magical skills, she instead ensured the groom's happiness by enchanting the dress so that...
Award-winning author Connie Brockway takes readers to the elegant drawing rooms and sprawling country estates of Victorian England in this captivating tale of a woman who must keep an irresistible nobleman’s most scandalous secret—without losing her heart. Evelyn Whyte has never forgotten the ...
Breathtakingly romantic, startlingly original, Connie Brockway's novels have captured the hearts of readers and the raves of critics everywhere. Now she brings you a unique and unforgettable love story that begins with a series of letters between a world-weary adventurer and the woman whose love...
With the dazzling storytelling that has become her trademark, acclaimed author Connie Brockway sweeps readers to Victorian England—a glittering world of titled society and scandalous secrets—in the enchanting tale of a woman who commits the most startling indiscretion of all: she falls in love. ...
Even in his fury, some analytical part of Thomas searched fruitlessly for a reason for the vicious betrayal, the depraved impulse that had driven Seward to send Cat to his room. This went beyond a mere difference in ideologies; this was hatred, vindictive and cruel. Thomas...
She ought to get credit for that, Lucy thought, stealing a glance at Archie’s profile as they headed down the gangway. The late afternoon sun glinted off the inky curls falling down over his brow, making him look particularly roguish. He didn’t glance back, let alone admire her brave stoicism. In...
He thumped it against his thigh as he stalked to the library, barking out orders for scotch to be brought immediately. Captain John Frances Cameron. He’d thought there was something familiar about the whipcord lean figure when they’d been introduced in that artist’s lair. But before he could purs...
Apparently, Jim’s business last night had been with a liquor bottle. There was ample evidence that her Mr. Coyne was a hard-drinking Irishman. Not that he was her Mr. Coyne, she thought sadly, or her anything but a means to an end. The groan turned into a hiss of pain. Worriedly, Gilly opened the...
Fia asked.Thomas snapped the reins, setting the tired horse trotting into the house’s side yard.“Thomas McClairen,” he answered without looking at her.“Colin McClairen’s son?” she asked, stunned. Colin McClairen had been gone during the uprising of ’45, having left his sons, John and Thomas, unde...
Now, this was the way she’d envisioned her time at Fowl Lake. Little will-o’-the-wisps of steam rose from the water around her, and the soothing, rhythmic plop of the water dripping from the faucet lulled her into a pleasant state of inertia. Her natural state, she reminded herself.The uncomforta...
she breathed.He turned and she shuffled back from the violence she saw in his haunted gaze. He stopped, disoriented, and peered at her, as though trying to place her. “Mercy?”“Yes. It’s me, Hart.”“God.” He laughed and her heart pitched at the bitter sound. He lifted his hand, groping for the mant...
A storm was coming in. A stiff wind smote the rocky island with backhanded fury, ripping what leaves were left from the branches of oak and rowan and hurling them across the square. Overhead, dark mauve-veined clouds rolled ominously westward. If one turned around and looked out the east windows,...
Muted voices whispering from the hiding hole in the clansman’s croft. The staccato of hoofbeats. Scarlet coats made black by the night, suddenly illumined by torch fire. Discovery. Panic. Shouts... No! Her head snapped upright, her stomach roiling, the taste of bile thick on her tongue. Dizzy and...