When life goes downhill... head to the snow-capped Alps for roaring fires, apres-ski and festive romance. Lily Jackson loves Christmas. She also loves her childhood friend Jamie, but when her plan to kick-start their romance goes drastically wrong and her job gets her down, Lily decides it’s time to make changes. A job opens up in snowy Chamonix and egged on by her best friend Imogen, Lily decides to go for it. As Lily settles in with the eccentric Devereux family at their go

The Perfect Fit 'A wonderful book with a great story and a sparky, unusual voice. I loved it!' KATIE FFORDE Escape to the frost-sparkling Yorkshire Dales for some festive fun under the mistletoe! A saucy comedy-romance with more than a sprinkle of Christmas spice – this will lift your spirits and your excitement level! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for costume shop owner Becky Finn. Leaving London to move back home to the twinkly rural village of Egglethwaite, s

Ruth “Ruthless” Harper is on the verge of becoming managing partner at her all-male consulting firm and she won’t let anything stand in her way. That includes men, relationships, and that dreaded F word, FEELINGS—distractions she eliminated long ago. After the worst day ever (a near-death experience and a public wedgie, for starters), Ruth realizes she doesn’t want to live and die alone. She puts together a business plan to find the perfect man and dives head first into the m

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… Except for Daisy Christmas means another of Uncle T’s dreaded Christmas parties, complete with Christmas jumper and flashing antlers. And Oliver Cartwright. Gorgeous Oliver Cartwright. Who she hates. Every year Daisy has to face insufferable Ollie and hear all about how BRILLIANT he is. Whereas Daisy has no job, no man and no idea how to fix things. This Christmas however Daisy is determined things will be different. There will be

I’m wracking my brains to recall if I’ve ever read a Regency romance where the hero was both an aristocrat and a man with a Proper Job, soldiers and spies excepted, and I honestly can’t remember one. Yes, this is part of a series and all the other heroes in the series are soldiers and/or spies, but Lord Hadleigh is… a lawyer. A barrister, actually, a senior prosecutor for the Crown, and an extremely hard-working one. The heroine is Penny, Lady Penhurst, or the former Lady Pen

There’s a genre specific to British fiction which the British call chick-lit and everyone else doesn’t quite know how to define, but usually they call it romantic comedy. For me it’s typified by the TV show Coupling (the British version, not the appalling American remake) and authors like Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones’ Diary) and Sophie Kinsella (the Shopaholic series). Think Four Weddings And A Funeral, think Notting Hill, and you’ll be in the perfect mood to sit down and th

A decade after his childhood love threw him over for his older brother and he lost his inheritance at the gaming tables in a fit of despair, Lord Graham “Gray” Chadwick is back in England, older and a great deal wise for his years in the merchant navy. Now working for the Elites, a team of government agents hot on the heels of a dangerous smuggling gang, Gray is in line to become commander of the Elites, if he can just identify “The Boss”. The Elites have narrowed their suspe

Two hearts. One home? Ellie Laing has a very good reason to want to stay single: her last relationship put her in danger. And she’s worried that while the physical scars will heal, the emotional ones never can. So, travelling to Kansas for her best friend Sandy’s wedding, Ellie’s in need of some time alone. And Sandy’s brother Ben’s rural and idyllic ranch seems like the perfect place for it. Ben comes with his own baggage – a failed marriage in his past, and a big questio

MY REVIEW: Part of a charming series called the Cinderella Spinsterhood, The Duke I Once Knew tells the story of a pair of innocent teenagers forced apart by circumstances and denied the comfort even of friendship. Abigail is left behind with her family, needed to be a support to her mother after a disabling fall, while Max is swept off to London with his ducal father. Fast forward fifteen years and Abigail is trapped in an endless cycle between relatives, needed to be a supp

Lady Regina is the beautiful, wealthy, virginal niece of a duke who has almost reached her thirtieth birthday without ever meeting a man she wants to marry. Finally running out of patience, her uncle gives her an ultimatum. Find an eligible suitor to marry before Christmas or enter a marriage of convenience. Problem is, the only man who’s ever caught her eye is definitely not eligible. Daffin Oakleaf is a Bow Street Runner. Marriage is out of the question, but one night? That

Miss Fiona Hartley is desperate. She has two weeks to come up with an enormous sum of money for a blackmailer or see her beloved sister ruined forever. Frightened to burden her sick father, there seems only one option open to her - marry in haste and to an obliging husband who will let her use a portion of her enormous dowry for her own purposes. The only man she knows who ticks all the boxes is Gray, Earl of Ravenport, well known to be strapped for cash with an enormous, cru

UNIVERSAL PURCHASE LINK Clever alliteration aside, the title is just a touch misleading. While the dragon tattoo is both real and an integral part of the story, this Victorian romp is less high society and Almack’s and more pirates and treasure hunts. Which is actually a lot more fun, but not really what I was expecting. The Rook is the most notorious pirate on the high seas. So when he turns up at Lorelai’s undesired wedding and kills both her groom and her abusive brother b

MY REVIEW: I love a good K9 story, and Taz, the dog in this one, is adorable, as is his handler, Raul Sà. On his first day at his new job with a private firm in Hawaii, Raul picks up the phone to discover the little sister of his best friend (and team-mate) is in trouble and asking for help. He never hesitates for a second to rush to Miri’s rescue. This is an interracial romance with both protagonists from ethnicities you don’t see a lot in fiction; while they are both first-

Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of the post for your chance to win a $15 Amazon gift card! In The Madame Catches Her Duke, Christina McKnight returns to her brilliant Craven House series about the children of a disgraced marchioness and infamous brothel owner. This time it is the turn of the eldest daughter, Lady Marce Davenport, to find love. Marce has sacrificed more than her siblings will ever know to give them a good life and a chance at happiness. A deal m

Available for a LIMITED TIME ONLY! Enjoy eight historical romances from bestselling authors, featuring dashing, roguish dukes who are willing to risk it all to get the lady their heart desires. When these powerful, bold men take a chance on love, nothing can stop them. I was invited to participate in this release blast and book tour by Barclay Publicity, and I'm going to give each of these a very brief review and star rating of their own before an overall rating for the boo

I was delighted to be asked to participate in the release tour for Gina Conkle's The Lord Meets His Lady. This is a gorgeous historical romance, full of lush prose and evocative imagery, not to mention an extremely unusual pair of protagonists. Lord Marcus Bowles is the epitome of the scoundrel second son, banished to his forebears' cottage in Northumberland until gossip about his latest scandalous episode can die down. Scandal doesn't stay far from him, though, and he soon f

In this stunning series starter by USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick, meet the new generation of Penningtons...five brothers and sisters of passion and privilege. Enter their aristocratic world…where each will fight injustice and find love. As a Regency romance lover, I’ve read hundreds, probably thousands, of books in the genre. And in all those books, I’m honestly wracking my brain to think of one where the heroine wasn’t on the ‘English’ side in the Napoleonic Wa

I thoroughly enjoyed Carolyn Brown's Toughest Cowboy In Texas when I got to review it back in June, so when the chance came up to review the second in her Happy, Texas series, I jumped at it. Long, Tall, Cowboy Christmas might just be the fluffiest thing I've ever read. Featuring a former Special Ops soldier with PTSD and a Gold Star widow with three adorable plot moppets, it's full of sweetness, Christmas cheer and happily ever afters all around. There was even an incident o

I'm delighted to be part of the blog tour for the release of this book; I absolutely adore Christina McKnight's Regency romances! As a tour host I was given the opportunity to read an advance copy of the book and you'll find my review below, but first, here's a little taster of what the book is all about... COURTSHIP WAS NEVER SO SCANDALOUS The grandson of an unconventional marquis and son of a notorious woman, Elijah Watson, Marquis of Ridgefeld, has spent most of his life o