Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: The Merchant and the Clergyman Author: Summer Devon and Bonnie Dee Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 186 Pages At a Glance: If you’re looking for well written historical romance, you can’t go wrong with these two authors. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: A village clergyman Curate James Fletcher is content shepherding his parishioners through the good... Continue Reading →
Title: Stand and Deliver Author: Scarlet Blackwell Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages/Word Count: 102 Pages At a Glance: A lusty and erotic guilty pleasure read. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: A tale of dark, dangerous highwaymen and the man they take captive. When Lucien Mayer, 14th Earl of Ravensberry is taken hostage by a gang of highwaymen,... Continue Reading →
Happy Fall! Those of you experiencing cooler temps, please send some south. While I have been relatively quiet on social media, I haven’t been idle. I’m pleased to say that my Tarnished series continues with a standalone spinoff, just released on October 16th. Beloved Unmasked takes place in New Orleans at the turn of the... Continue Reading →
Brita Addams’ Beloved Unmasked is a story of second chances set against the backdrop of a bygone New Orleans where Storyville—the city’s former red light district—flourished with legalized prostitution and a regulated drug trade. NOLA herself is a character in this book, as it is in nearly every book I’ve ever read set in this... Continue Reading →
Title: The Quartermaster and the Marquis’ Son Author: AE Kendall Publisher: Hermione Press Pages/Word Count: 466 Pages At a Glance: This is a fun, guilty pleasure, love and lust and danger on the high seas adventure. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: A gorgeous pirate, a handsome nobleman. A clash at sea. Galen is the seasoned twenty-six... Continue Reading →
We're so pleased to welcome author Charlie Cochrane back to TNA, on the tour for the latest installment in the Cambridge Mysteries series, Lessons for Sleeping Dogs. Enjoy Charlie's guest post, and then be sure to leave a comment below to enter the following giveaway: Every comment on this blog tour enters you in a... Continue Reading →
Hi, everyone, welcome back to another edition of Flashback Friday! This week’s feature takes us back in time as we pay tribute to the Historical Romance genre. Once again, it wasn’t easy to settle on just one book. In fact, part of my problem this week was picking just one book from one of the... Continue Reading →
Title: Lessons for Sleeping Dogs (Cambridge Fellows Mysteries) Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 208 Pages At a Glance: If you like period appropriate verbiage and staging, REALLY GOOD mysteries, and colorful and witty characters, then this series is for you. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Cambridge, 1921 When amateur sleuth Jonty Stewart comes... Continue Reading →
Title: Dark Economy Author: M. Keedwell Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 287 Pages At a Glance: Dark Economy is a jolly good story. This is my first time reading this author, and I was very impressed. Reviewed By: Maryann Blurb: Love can’t stay buried. Medical student Cadell Meredith has been known to acquire “volunteers” from... Continue Reading →
Title: Unbound, Unbroken (In His Arena: Book Two) Author: Nasia Maksima Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 309 Pages At a Glance: An excellent second installment in the In His Arena series. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: When rising star gladiator Titian finds himself paired with the vainglorious champion Galadros, he finds himself in mortal danger. For a dark... Continue Reading →
Title: Blue Paramour (Blue Ridge Saga: Volume One) Author: Ligon and Maine Publisher: Voir Media Publishing Group Pages/Word Count: 344 Pages At a Glance: Blue Paramour is the perfect example of a fine book that unfortunately didn’t work for me. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: When Brayden, a devastatingly handsome heir to a prominent Southern family,... Continue Reading →
Title: Dakota Skies Author: Taylin Clavelli Publisher: Wayward Ink Publishing Pages/Word Count: 350 Pages At a Glance: Dakota Skies is an Old Western saga, an entertaining story with plenty of action. Reviewed By: Maryann Blurb: Born in the wrong time... In 1875 Dakota, Sheriff Jamie Carter has to hide his interest in men, even from... Continue Reading →
Title: The Shepherd and the Solicitor Author: Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 161 Pages At a Glance: If you want a good historical fiction romance, you really can’t go wrong with this pair of authors. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: When a storm is brewing, taking shelter could be the most... Continue Reading →
My writing often requires I research the obscure as well as the blatant. I’m also an amateur genealogist of over twenty years, so I’ve dug into many a family history, including a thorough, if incomplete exploration of my own. You’re never done. I’ve learned how people lived and died over many centuries, discovered things I’m... Continue Reading →
We're so pleased to welcome author Heloise West to The Novel Approach today, on the tour for If I Were Fire. Enjoy her interview, then be sure to click on the Rafflecopter widget below to enter for the chance to win an e-copy of the book. Good luck! WP: Do you buy a book because... Continue Reading →
Keeping it Stiff Hi, I’m JL Merrow, and it’s great to be here as part of the To Love a Traitor blog tour! Today I’d like to talk about keeping it stiff. I’m talking, of course, about a young man’s upper lip. Why, what were you thinking of? ;) Keep a stiff upper lip. It’s... Continue Reading →
Please join us in welcoming author Brad Vance to The Novel Approach today, as he makes the round to tell readers a bit about his new novel Werewolves of Brooklyn. Brad took the opportunity to answer a few interview questions from Will Parkinson, so enjoy, and then be sure to click on the Rafflecopter widget... Continue Reading →
Title: Dangerous Spirits (Spirits: Book Two) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 157 Pages At a Glance: Dangerous Spirits is everything a good ghost story should be. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: After the events of Reyhome Castle, Henry Strauss expected the Psychical Society to embrace his application of science to the study of... Continue Reading →
Title: To Love a Traitor Author: JL Merrow Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 202 Pages At a Glance: I think fans of historical romance will find plenty to love about To Love a Traitor. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Wounds of the heart take the longest to heal. When solicitor’s clerk George Johnson moves into a... Continue Reading →
Title: The Lion and the Crow Author: Eli Easton Narrator: Scott Richard Ehredt Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 5 hours and 3 minutes At a Glance: If I could give this book 1000 stars, I would. Reviewed By: Amy Blurb: In medieval England, duty is everything, personal honor is more valued than life itself, and... Continue Reading →
Title: Lord Loxley’s Lover Author: Katherine Marlowe Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 91 Pages At a Glance: In spite of a few niggles, I found Lord Loxley’s Lover to be a diverting read. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Lord Loxley is bewildered when his noble-born friend and former lover, Miles Rochester arrives on his doorstep and applies... Continue Reading →
We're so pleased to welcome GayRomLit attending author Christina Pilz to The Novel Approach today to chat about how she came to fall in love with Oliver Twist. Enjoy Christina's guest post, then be sure to leave a comment below for the chance to win a copy of her historical novel based on the characters Oliver... Continue Reading →
Title: The Layered Mask Author: Sue Brown Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 108 Pages At a Glance: I would love to have a whole Gentleman’s Club series… Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: 2nd Edition Threatened by his father with disinheritance, Lord Edwin Nash arrives in London with a sole purpose: to find a wife. A more... Continue Reading →
Title: The First Bloom of Winter (Garden Series: Book Two) Author: Pearl Love Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 136 Pages At a Glance: I wish there had been more to this story. I look forward to the other books, though, to see what happens to everyone else. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: Holden Peters is a... Continue Reading →
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