Midwife in Behruz is the fictional story of Layla, a midwife whose distant relationship to the Sheikh of Behruz, a fictional country on the eastern side of the Gulf of Arabia, sees her visiting Behruz for a month to attend her relative's wedding. Once in the country of her birth, though, she meets a charismatic doctor and discovers that perhaps her true calling lies in helping the women of this conservative country. Judy Meadows has lived and travelled extensively in the Mid

So I have this secret passion for royal romances... wait, what do you mean it's not a secret? *considers my Goodreads library* OK, you might have a point there. All right, I have a not-at-all-secret passion for royal romances, but a distressingly high proportion of them are not very good. The last one I read (Pretend Princess) was absolutely dire. The Doctor and the Princess is absolutely FANTASTIC. I loved the premise - a 'spare' princess, not wanting to be a mere ornament,

For a moment there, I thought I was re-reading His Pregnant Royal Bride by Amy Ruttan (my review here). Prince who is also a doctor, check. Has a one-night-stand with a commoner, check. Gets her pregnant, check. From there on in, though, the stories are wildly different, and in the best possible way. Elias is everything one could want in a man who's had new fatherhood sprung on him in the worst possible way - having to deliver his own premature daughter - and he handles the w

It's been many years since I read a Harlequin category romance, but they were my introduction to reading romance. I and several schoolfriends used to visit the local charity shops, pool our loose change and go back with carrier bags full of them, which we would pass around and then read until they fell apart. As a reviewer and an indie author myself, I review mostly indie-published books, but when I saw a whole bunch of Harlequins pop up as available for review on NetGalley,