Love Conquers All by Roseanne Williams, stars a heroine with an exotic career and an Asian-American hero–rare in a retro romance from 1991. 4 Stars
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Category Romance Review: The Passionate Sinner by Violet Winspear
The Passionate Sinner by Violet Winspear is a vintage Harlequin Presents romance novel that follows the story of Merlin, a nurse who accidentally blinds Dr. Paul van Setan, a brilliant surgeon. 5 tars
Category Romance Review: A Durable Fire by Robyn Donald
A Durable Fire by Robyn Donald is an intense Harlequin Presents where Arminel, a beautiful woman with no money, gets entangled in a web of emotions with a cruel hero and his family. 5 Stars
Category Romance Review: Red Rose for Love by Carole Mortimer
Carole Mortimer’s Red Rose For Love is one of my favorite Harlequin Presents, mainly for the gentle hero in pursuit of a heroine with a troubled past. 5 Stars
Category Romance Review: Fantasy by Emma Darcy
Harlequin Presents #840 Fantasy by Emma Darcy Heroine finds her fiancé in bed with another man. She tries to drown herself but the hero saves her. 5 stars
Category Romance Review: The Dream by Barbara Delinsky
The Dream, the first entry in Barbara Delinsky’s Crosslyn Rise Trilogy, is the story of a woman who’s the last in her once-wealthy family and tries to hold on to her familial estate with the help of her former childhood bully. 3.5 Stars
Category Romance Review: Impulsive Butterfly by Kay Gregory
Impulsive Butterfly by Kay Gregory features, quite frankly, a rather skeezy romance where an engaged owner of an employment agency tries to find work for a woman he’s attracted to. 3 Stars
Category Romance Review: Night Light by Jennifer Greene
In Night Light by Jennifer Greene, a surly man opens his home to a stranded woman during a thunderstorm. She stays for the night. That’s when things get weird. 4 Stars
Category Romance Review: Wrong Address, Right Place by Lass Small
Wrong Address, Right Place has a paper-thin plot that would be difficult to swallow if written by most writers. Thankfully, in the hands of seasoned funny-lady Lass Small, this romance is an entertaining and zany read. 4 Stars
Category Romance Review: The Reluctant Lark by Iris Johansen
The Reluctant Lark, a Bantam Loveswept romance by Iris Johansen, is so over the top with its possibly offensive 1980s themes that I had a blast reading it. 4 Stars