by Olive | May 29, 2025 | Book Reviews
Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake (2025) Contemporary romance. Book 1 of the Clover Lake series. Small-town charm with a dash of celebrity here. Ramona is a small-town diner waitress with long-buried dreams of being a costume designer, but shelved...
by Olive | May 27, 2025 | Book Reviews
Love in Focus by Lyla Lee (2025) Contemporary romance. Standalone novel. I absolutely loved this second chance romance between a recently-dumped magazine writer and her ex-roommate girlfriend photographer who totally disappeared on her eight years ago. The tension...
by Olive | May 24, 2025 | Book Reviews
A Kiss in the Moonlight by Cathy Maxwell (2023) Historical romance. Regency-era England. Book 1 of the Gambler’s Daughters series. Three sisters in Ireland are at the mercy of their cousin who wants to marry them off to the most convenient person. Middle sister Dara...
by Olive | May 20, 2025 | Book Reviews
The Countess’s Christmas Groom by Fenna Edgewood (2022) Historical romance. Regency-era England. Book 1 of the Blakely Manor series. Quick and steamy novella, where widowed countess Kat is at her family estate for a Christmas house party and she starts a...
by Olive | May 15, 2025 | Book Reviews
The Runaway Heiress by Harper St. George (2025) Historical romance. American West. Book 0 of the Gilded West series. Super short read here. Sophie is the niece of some unscrupulous miner and she’s being married off to some other shady character. She’s also got a crush...
by Olive | May 13, 2025 | Book Reviews
Beyond Scandal and Desire by Lorraine Heath (2018) Historical romance. Victorian-era England. Book 1 of the Sins for All Seasons series. One of my favorite tropes is the revenge plot, and Lorraine Heath does it so well in this book. Mick Trewlove is the illegitimate...
