posted by Marisa

Maria and I are handing over Romance Novel TV to 20 wonderful authors. Starting Monday  the Romance Bandits will be here.  Every day for 5 days 4 new authors from the Romance Bandits Lair will be visiting. It’s the second annual Romance Bandits Invasion.  Anna Campbell and I put our heads together for the Invasion and came up with a way for all the authors to bring you a brand new story. I gave each group of authors a photo – THEY had to come up with a vignette based on the photo – YOU have to come up with the last line. The best last line wins a book.  Great authors, new stories, great prizes.

Join  Jeanne Adams, Beth Andrews, Anna Campbell, Kate Carlisle, Caren Crane, K.J. Howe, Joan…

Reviewed by: Andrea Williamson
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: January 27, 2009
4.5 stars

When a Stranger Loves Me is the third installment in USA Today bestseller Julianne MacLean’s Pembroke Palace series. In the previous book, The Mistress Diaries, Lord Blake Sinclair went missing and we find out precisely what happened in When a Stranger Loves Me.

Lady Chelsea Campion has lived somewhat in exile on the island of Jersey for the last seven years. At 18, she ran off with a fortune hunter and created a scandal that her family has never been able to live down. And now she feels the pressure of possibly having to marry her father’s cousin and heir because her brother (the current earl) and sister-in-law have produced no offspring after ten years of marriage. Despite this, she is happy living…

Reviewed by Marisa O’Neill
Publisher: Signet
3.75 Stars

I have read every single one of Catherine Anderson’s books. I love them.  I know it’s a bit scary when I start a review off with a justification, but just bear with me for a minute. Over the years Miss Anderson’s writing has changed a bit. Actually, not so much her writing – it’s as wonderful as ever. Good dialogue, strong characters, emotionally charged scenes, great romance, and a delightful mix of sweet and light combined with suspense and tension. But with the last 2 or 3 books there has been a lot more mention of God.  I don’t necessarily have a problem with God, it’s just that it wasn’t what I’d grown to expect from her. But people change. And if you’re an author,…

I got a copy of Lora Leigh’s Coyote’s Mate and I’ve been devouring it. So much so that I went back and read Harmony’s Way, Mercury’s War and I’ll be starting Megan’s Mark very soon.  I’m having a Lora Leigh Marathon and loving every minute of it. I also started Kylie Brant’s Terms of Engagement – romantic suspense that has me wanting to read more by this author.  I’m not quite sure what I’m going to pick up after that. What are you reading?

I’m really excited to have best selling author Jacquie D’Alessandro with us today. Jacquie is an author who can sweep you away to the historical world of Regency England as well as take you through a trip in the contemporary world we live in. And whether your reading one of her historicals or one of her contemporaries – Jacquie’s books are always filled with poignant moments, sensuality, strong characters, and intriguing plots.

Jacquie’s latest release Seduced At Midnight just hit the shelves. We loved it – and if you haven’t had a chance to read it, check out Buffie’s review.

Today Jacquie is giving away two signed sets of the first two Mayhem in Mayfair series–Sleepless at Midnight and Confessions at Midnight to lucky posters.

Keeping in Touch by Jacquie D’Alessandro

Hey everyone—I’m so excited to be here…

Reviewed by Andrea Williamson
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: January 27, 2009
4.25 stars

Night After Night marks the thrilling conclusion to Kathryn Smith’s Brotherhood of the Blood series.   The books of the series take place simultaneously in 1899 and centers around five Templar Knights who mistakenly drank from the unholy Blood Grail six hundred years before and became vampires.  They were eventually given new names – each a religious moniker: Chapel, Bishop, Saint, Reign and Temple.

In the first book of the series, Be Mine Tonight, we learned that Temple was the protector of the Blood Grail.  As its guardian, his task was to allow no one to accidentally drink from it again and have to experience the torment and burden of living the cursed life of a vampire.  Toward the end of the book,…