Below are words when strung together make up the name of a romance novel.  All you have to do is replace the words I’ve written with another meaning for the word and the name of the book will be revealed.

Here are two examples:

Misfortune + that which belonged to you
Accidentally Yours
by Susan Mallery

Peck + preposition + fever
Kiss of Heat
by Lora Leigh

The first two people to name all the books correctly wins a book.

1. Something that is compelling and inescapable + potency and vigor
2. Osculation+ preposition + indefinite article + unworldly villain + crowned head
3. Fiendish + incinerate
4. Definite article + dense growth+ preposition + something that can hold things + conjuction + choppers
5. Fluid + articulating + foreigner
6. Domesticated feline + increment + abyss
7. Linking + indefinite article + consolidated mineral + conjunction + indefinite article + blood…

With millions of people buying e-readers and down loading books at a moments notice, why bother to take a trip to the local bookstore or book chain?

I’m an e-reader but I also happen to be one of those people who will take time out of her busy schedule to go to a bookstore and browse. I like that feeling of wonderment when browsing through the stacks.  For that matter I love my library and the excitement and heady sensation that overcome me in the presence of so many books.

Buying books on line is simple, quick, and I can do it any time of the day or night.  There are also hundreds of on-line outlets for me to choose from.

If that wasn’t enough, there’s yet another alternative, and that’s book rentals.…

Publisher: Avon
By: Kate Garrabrant
3.25 stars

NYPD Office Lara Boucher and her partner are called to the Plaza on Fifth Avenue to break up a loud and rowdy party. What she finds there is quite shocking. The man who answers the door is the most beautiful man she has ever seen. But even though he may be quite the looker, this won’t stop her from investigating a party gone too wild. She finds a man on the floor covered in blood, swords and knives lying around and a sex doll in one of the beds. Mister sexy pants has some explaining to do and she is going to cuff him and hail him down to the precinct for some questioning.

Two hundred year old Giacomo, also known as Jack, can’t believe he was…

Reviewed by PJ Ausdenmore
4.5 Stars

1814 – The Scottish Highlands

Pamela Darby can’t remember a time when she wasn’t the practical, responsible person that her family always turned to in times of crisis.  As the moderately attractive firstborn child of the beautiful and adored London actress, Marianne Darby, clever and intelligent Pamela has always looked after both her pampered mother and her gorgeous younger sister, Sophie.  When Marianne dies in a theater fire, leaving them penniless and young Sophie at the mercy of a married nobleman who wants to make her his mistress, Pamela does what she has always done best.  She takes charge and forms a plan that will not only secure enough money to keep Sophie safe but will also allow Pamela to unravel the mystery surrounding the fire that…

Reviewed by Maria Lokken
3.5 stars
Publisher:  Mira
Pub Date Feb 1, 2009

Kimberly Van Dorn is a mess.  She’s flying coach, dressed in a sequin evening gown, wearing four inch strapless heels and accompanied by only one piece of ‘luggage’ a Judith Leiber handbag.  Where is she going and what is she running from?   We know this much, she’s just left the eternal sunshine of LA for the frigid winter of Willow Lake in upstate New York.

A media agent for superstar sports figures, Kimberly has traded in her job for what she believes will be the comfort her mother’s arms and the pace of small town life.  But small town doesn’t mean small problems, because this story is filled with quirky characters that have issues. Particularly Bo Crutcher, minor league baseball player with…

Reviewed by PJ Ausdenmore
Publisher: Penguin
4.75 Stars

Christian Hill, viscount, handsome Army major and London rake, has long forgotten the marriage he was forced into as a young lad of sixteen.  Ten years ago, a new Army lieutenant stationed in Yorkshire, idealistic and impulsive Christian rushed to the aid of Dorcas Froggatt, a plain, thin young girl who had been sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier, killing the soldier in the ensuing struggle.  Dorcas’s powerful aunt then forced Christian to marry the girl to save her reputation.   He did so, using the false name of Jack Hill, then promptly left to fight abroad, putting the entire fiasco out of his mind until a few years later when he received a letter from the girl’s aunt informing him of his bride’s death.   But…