Category: Historical Romance

Review: Sweetwater by Lisa Henry

Title: Sweetwater Author: Lisa Henry Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 240 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Wyoming Territory, 1870. Elijah Carter is afflicted. Most of the townsfolk of South Pass City treat him as a simpleton because he’s deaf, but that’s not his only problem. Something in Elijah runs contrary to nature and to God.... Continue Reading →

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Review: Isle of Illusions by A.L. Wilson

Title: Isle of Illusions Author: A.L. Wilson Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 30000 Words Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: The year is 1954 and this marks 10 rocky years that Cyrus has spent with his human companion, Dr. Lorenz Meissner. The two unlikely lovers, after some heated debate, decide to cross the Mediterranean and go on holiday... Continue Reading →

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Review: The Knife of Narcissus (Parts One and Two) by Carolyne Chand

Title: The Knife of Narcissus (Parts One and Two) Author: Carolyne Chand Publisher: dik-dik books Pages/Word Count: 123 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Lucius Sentius, along with most people in the city of Rome, assumes that the debauched days of Nero are behind them now that Rome has settled down under a sober new ruler,... Continue Reading →

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Love and Loss and Redemption Weave Their Way Through Hayden Thorne's "The Glass Minstrel"

"And there the craftsman sat in the deepening shadows of his workshop, ignoring the candles that burned themselves out till he was finally enveloped by the night, his thin figure bent over his worktable and the little minstrel." -- Hayden Thorne Title: The Glass Minstrel Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Queerteen Press Pages/Word Count: 216 Pages... Continue Reading →

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Love and Loss and Redemption Weave Their Way Through Hayden Thorne’s “The Glass Minstrel”

"And there the craftsman sat in the deepening shadows of his workshop, ignoring the candles that burned themselves out till he was finally enveloped by the night, his thin figure bent over his worktable and the little minstrel." -- Hayden Thorne Title: The Glass Minstrel Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Queerteen Press Pages/Word Count: 216 Pages... Continue Reading →

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Guest Post and Giveaway: Welcome Merry Farmer

Ironically enough, even though Somebody to Love is the seventh book in my Montana Romance series, the character of Phineas Bell was one of the first characters in the entire Montana Romance series to pop into my mind. The funny thing about characters is that, as a writer, you don’t sit down and think in... Continue Reading →

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Hank Edwards’ “Blood & Stone” Kicks Things Up A Notch In Venom Valley

Title: Blood & Stone (Venom Valley: Book Three) Author: Hank Edwards Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 229 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Josh Stanton’s mother has been held prisoner by the vampire Balthazar for fifteen years. As Balthazar has turned the residents of Belkin’s Pass into vampires under his control, Josh, his lover Dex,... Continue Reading →

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Hank Edwards' "Blood & Stone" Kicks Things Up A Notch In Venom Valley

Title: Blood & Stone (Venom Valley: Book Three) Author: Hank Edwards Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 229 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Josh Stanton’s mother has been held prisoner by the vampire Balthazar for fifteen years. As Balthazar has turned the residents of Belkin’s Pass into vampires under his control, Josh, his lover Dex,... Continue Reading →

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Love Finds A Way In Charlie Cochrane’s “Sand”

Title: Sand Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 44 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Andrew Parks has come to Syria to escape potential disgrace in Edwardian England, burying past heartache and scandal among the tombs. Charles Cusiter has travelled here more reluctantly, as chaperone to a friend whose fondness for the opposite sex... Continue Reading →

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Love Finds A Way In Charlie Cochrane's "Sand"

Title: Sand Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 44 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Andrew Parks has come to Syria to escape potential disgrace in Edwardian England, burying past heartache and scandal among the tombs. Charles Cusiter has travelled here more reluctantly, as chaperone to a friend whose fondness for the opposite sex... Continue Reading →

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Small Gems Sunday: “Grave’s End” by Hayden Thorne

“He now knew what that ache was: empathy. And it wasn’t just any kind of empathy, but one involving loneliness.” – Hayden Thorne Title: Grave’s End Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Queerteen Press Pages/Word Count: 66 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: It isn’t business as usual for Maelwine when a new family moves into Grave’s End... Continue Reading →

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Small Gems Sunday: "Grave's End" by Hayden Thorne

“He now knew what that ache was: empathy. And it wasn’t just any kind of empathy, but one involving loneliness.” – Hayden Thorne Title: Grave’s End Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Queerteen Press Pages/Word Count: 66 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: It isn’t business as usual for Maelwine when a new family moves into Grave’s End... Continue Reading →

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Nazi Germany Is The Setting Of Ruby Lis’s “Paragraph 175”

Title: Paragraph 175 Author: Ruby Lis Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 276 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Berlin, 1936. The carefree, hedonistic days of the Weimar Republic have ended, replaced by the conservatism of the Nazi Party. Stricter interpretations of laws such as Paragraph 175 criminalize homosexual activity. For gays, falling in love is punishable by... Continue Reading →

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Nazi Germany Is The Setting Of Ruby Lis's "Paragraph 175"

Title: Paragraph 175 Author: Ruby Lis Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 276 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Berlin, 1936. The carefree, hedonistic days of the Weimar Republic have ended, replaced by the conservatism of the Nazi Party. Stricter interpretations of laws such as Paragraph 175 criminalize homosexual activity. For gays, falling in love is punishable by... Continue Reading →

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Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon’s “Mending Him” Is A Pitch Perfect Historical Romance

Title: Mending Him Author: Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 243 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: "As his world collapses, love opens his heart." Robbie Grayson has always felt like a bit of an outsider in the Chester family, though he’s related by blood. An orphan taken in at a young... Continue Reading →

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Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon's "Mending Him" Is A Pitch Perfect Historical Romance

Title: Mending Him Author: Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 243 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: "As his world collapses, love opens his heart." Robbie Grayson has always felt like a bit of an outsider in the Chester family, though he’s related by blood. An orphan taken in at a young... Continue Reading →

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Temptation, Danger, And Love Are Found In S.A. Meade’s “Darkness at Endersley”

Title: Darkness at Endersley (The Endersley Papers #2) Author: S.A. Meade Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 175 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Joshua thought he’d left his past behind, but there’s something in the darkness at Endersley. Joshua Endersley is glad to leave a broken engagement and his sordid desires behind in London and claim... Continue Reading →

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Temptation, Danger, And Love Are Found In S.A. Meade's "Darkness at Endersley"

Title: Darkness at Endersley (The Endersley Papers #2) Author: S.A. Meade Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 175 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Joshua thought he’d left his past behind, but there’s something in the darkness at Endersley. Joshua Endersley is glad to leave a broken engagement and his sordid desires behind in London and claim... Continue Reading →

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