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Category: Book List 2017

  • Holiday Round-Up: Journey Back to Christmas by Leigh Duncan

    Title: Journey Back to Christmas Author: Leigh Duncan Genre: Holiday Romance, Time Travel, Romance Summary: WWII is finally over, but Hanna’s husband, Chet, didn’t return home. She puts on a brave smile during the day while nursing her hospital patients, but at night, she grieves the loss of her love.  Then the Christmas Comet appears for the…

  • Holiday Round-Up: A Gift for Santa by Beth Carpenter

    Title: A Gift For Santa Author: Beth Carpenter Genre: Holiday Romance, Romance Summary: It’s the season for giving…and starting over?  A reindeer farm without Santa wouldn’t be Christmas in Marissa Gray’s Alaskan hometown. Luckily Chris Allen’s there to pinch-hit, although for Marissa, seeing her ex-fiancé again brings back memories of what might have been.  Ten years after…

  • Holiday Round-Up: A Cosy Candlelit Christmas by Tilly Tennant

    Title: A Cosy Candlelit Christmas Author: Tilly Tennant Genre: Holiday Romance Summary:  All Isla wants for Christmas is to be left in peace, but in the Alps there’s potential for romance in every snowflake that falls…  It’s the week before Christmas and Isla McCoy has just received an unexpected gift: a letter announcing she is due a life-changing inheritance,…

  • Review: Holiday Affair by Annie Seaton

    Title: Holiday Affair Author: Annie Seaton Genre: Romance, Beach Read Summary:  Unadventurous Lissy McIntyre believes choosing the right man should be based on common sense. She would never pick a rolling stone like Nick Richards for long-term love. But a red-hot, tropical romance? Yes, please. He’s got a swoon-worthy body and his kisses leave her senseless.…

  • Holiday Roundup: Christmas at Hope Cottage by Lily Graham

    Title: Christmas at Hope Cottage Author: Lily Graham Genre: Holiday, Magic, Romance Summary: In the little village of Whistling, with its butterscotch cottages and rolling green hills, snow is beginning to fall. Christmas is coming, and Emma Halloway is on her way home. When thirty-year-old food writer Emma Halloway gets dumped then knocked off her bike, she’s broken in…

  • Holiday Roundup: Winter at Cedarwood Lodge by Rebecca Raisin

    Title: Winter at Cedarwood Lodge Author: Rebecca Raisin Genre: Romance, Mystery, Holidays Quick thoughts: Good for someone who loves a warm, mysterious winter romance with surprisingly slow build which is not something you get in a lot of romance novels these days. Summary: This winter it’s time to fall in love at Cedarwood Lodge… After…

  • Review: (Un)Masked by Anyta Sunday and Andy Gallo

    Title: (Un)Masked Authors: Anyta Sunday and Andy Gallo (self-published) Genre: M/M paranormal romance, magical realism, new adult Buy it here Summary:  Jay Walker has two wishes: to perform the play of his dreams alongside his best friend at Wellington’s Tory Street Theatre, and to meet that special someone. Someone he’d go to the ends of the earth for.…

  • Review: A Snow Country Bride by Linda Lael Miller

    Title: A Snow Country Bride Author: Linda Lael Miller Genre: Romance Summary: It’s a Christmas affair to remember as a Hollywood mogul discovers his inner cowboy—and the woman of his dreams—amid the rugged beauty of Wyoming. Raine McCall would take snow-covered mountains over a star-studded premiere any day. But when hotshot movie executive Mick Branson arranges dinner on Christmas…

  • Review: Eliza and her Monsters

    Title: Eliza and Her Monsters Author: Francesca Zappia Genre: Romance, contemporary, YA In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves her digital community, and has no desire to try.…

  • Review: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

    Title: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue Author: Mackenzi Lee Genre: Historical Fiction, LGBTQIA+ Summary:  Henry “Monty” Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The finest boarding schools in England and the constant disapproval of his father haven’t been able to curb any of his roguish passions—not…