The fourth in a series. It’s a great standalone, but don’t deprive yourself of the others, and it is better in order. Plot: Two weeks ago, Mariana was a celebrated opera singer, sought after for her spectacular voice and body. Two juvenile delinquent aristocrats and a little scuffle later, Mariana is penniless and on the run from a literal mob. Following her gut, she ends up at the Grand Palace on the Thames, where she’s allowed to stay in exchange for a performance. Well, that’s […]

It’s done – the final book in the Pennyroyal Green series. The epic of Olivia Eversea and Lyon Redmond, and the love that will mend a rift between families that is nearly a thousand years old. Plot: Lyon was suffocating under his father’s expectations, but because those expectations have been part of his life since birth, he thought first about what he was supposed to do and only second of himself. In other words, he didn’t really examine what he wanted out of life, what he valued […]

Long takes on Beauty and the Beast with mixed results. Plot: Lord Lavay is a prince from the House of Bourbon, which means very little after the French Revolution, and boy is he grumpy about it. Fortunately, being a romance hero, he has already successfully recovered at least some of his wealth by becoming an operative for the British Crown? Doing some kind of mysterious… Investigation/violence? Something very alpha and impressive, surely. Until one day, he’s set upon by six men and is badly injured. He […]