MaryLu Tyndall is a great writer and Surrender the Heart is no exception! Marianne Denton and Noah Brenin both agree to marry the other for reasons that have nothing to do with love. Marianne needs to marry to unlock the inheritance that will help her ailing mother receive medical care while Noah...
It was an okay book. The writing was done well and I was able to finish it but mostly because I wanted it to get better. I just didn't like a huge part of the book. If you are from the South and still think that the North was the enemy from the civil war then this is the book for you! I'm sure...
Review in a sentence: pleasantly surprised.Historical romance where lowly girl meets dashing, high-society fellow. Girl can't stand guy. Thus is the premise of many historical fiction novels. After reading a few, I feel I'm kinda done with the genre.Well...Not with this book. Yes, the previously ...
Veil of Pearls was my first read by Marylu Tyndall, and sadly I couldn’t really get on with it for the most part. Yes, it had a sound and challenging Christian theme about slavery, both spiritual and physical, but I found that in many ways the story was lacking. It seemed very clichéd (and at tim...
This book wasn't as good as the first one, but I still enjoyed the story. This story is about Rose and Alexander Reed. Alex was in the first book and was the one that saved Marianne from the British man named Grarrick. And he also was the one that let Marianne escape when she was hanging from the...
Because all the men in her family have left to fight in the War of 1812, Cassandra Channing must financially support her family. She desperately decides to invest the rest of the family’s money in a privateering ship captained by the town rake Luke Heaton. Because she is forced to trust someone o...
Though the water was brown and had a coppery smell to it, and the tub itself was nothing but a sawed off ship’s barrel, and the maids had dropped towels of questionable cleanliness on the dirty floor, Magnolia didn’t care. She relished in the caress of warm water on her skin, washing away the gri...
A haze of smoke lingered in the air from the candles burning in their sconces upon the walls. Wind slammed the door shut behind him, echoing through the room and enclosing him in its shadows. He doffed his plumed hat. The odor of beeswax, mold, and aged parchment tickled his nose as the air, kept...
Isn’t that what the Good Book said? Hell was exactly the place Juliana felt she entered as she mounted the stairs to the Munthrope home, her goose-brained brother by her side. She’d long since berated him for his invitation to Mr. Kinder. He’d long since apologized. Yet now she must face the cons...
Not even the continual gust swirling about the colonists as they were forced to line up at sword point before the pirate crew and their captain. Some of the men, James included, had made a valiant dash to retrieve pistols and what few supplies they had left amid a spray of grapeshot. They’d succe...