Macie is a writer for a woman's magazine, and Ross is the right-wing conservative radio host that tears apart her latest article, causing the magazine to lose advertisers. Macie is determined to dig up some dirt on this sanctimonious jerk, so she convinces her editor to give her six weeks to dig ...
First let me say that I haven't read contemporary romance in ages. I read mostly speculative fiction, but I'm trying to branch out into other areas. With romance comes third person narrative, and I prefer first. This story had a little more telling (as opposed to showing) than I like, but, agai...
Baltimore street cop Mandy Delinski isn't expecting any miracles this Christmas. She's thirty, a little too round, still very single and she lives with her parents. So who could have guessed that her whole life would change before New Year's Eve? That a simple job policing a Christmas party would...
Before the week was out, Mary would be en route to a promising post with a respectable family in Cornwall. Likely her pallor and tear-tracked cheeks were nothing more than a bout of cold feet. Still, when she’d begged for a word in private, Phoebe hadn’t hesitated to grant it. She’d gathered her ...
Adjusting his eyes to the glare, he descended the granite steps from Murdock’s Lending Library, a yellowed newspaper folded beneath one arm. It had taken him the better part of the morning and afternoon, but finally he’d found what he sought. He smiled in contemplation of his midnight engagement....
No love is without seduction in its highest sense." --VICTORIA WOODHULL AND TENNESSEE CLAFLIN, Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly By unspoken accord, they didn't talk during the hansom ride from the opera house to Hadrian's. They sat facing each other on the cracked leather seats, the only physical ...
So I to her, and so she yields to me, For I am rough and woo not like a babe.”—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, PETRUCHIO, The Taming of the Shrew hat afternoon Kate stepped out of the hip bath and wrapped the towel around her. The long, hot soak had proved just the thing for sore muscles. If only a bruised ...