Sitting around reading romance novels and eating chocolates can be hazardous to your youth. I’ve recently owned up to the fact that sugar is bad for you. In fact, sugar makes you age faster and increases the lines on your face. After a few looks in the mirror, I realized I needed to take action.  I don’t like needles so Botox is out and I’m not about to become friendly with a plastic surgeon, so I needed to find a natural way to look younger. I went to my usual reliable source, the internet. I scoured the web and found the Perricone Diet – a diet that takes away the lines and wrinkles. It requires you eat no sugar and essentially consists of cantaloupes, berries, oatmeal, yogurt, salmon, tuna, chicken breast,…

Reviewed by PJ Ausdenmore
Grand Central Publishing
4 Stars

Jillian Samuels is a tough, big city deputy district attorney who seems destined to live her life alone.  Her three best friends all wished on a supposedly magic wedding veil and are now happily married to the loves of their lives but life has never given Jillian a reason to believe in magic or love.  She has no family, her last attempt at romance left her cruelly betrayed, she’s disillusioned with her high-powered career and when Blake Townsend, her long-time mentor and surrogate father figure, dies suddenly she’s left emotionally devastated and completely devoid of hope.  She does the one thing she swore she would never do.  She places the magic wedding veil on her head and makes a wish – a wish for…

Reviewed by Marisa O’Neill
Publisher: Samhain
4.7 Stars
There are some books you just have to read from beginning to end with out pause. This is the case with Deidre Knight’s Butterfly Tattoo, a contemporary romance that has you settling in and reading for the long haul. Touching all the right chords, this is the story of love lost, love found and finding love with in.  It’s about the scars you can see and the ones that are hidden, the ones that reside deep in your soul and cause a heart to be broken.
Ms. Knight’s lyrical dialogue and ability to write cleanly what the heart wishes to express is magic, and her story about a man, a woman and a child finding each other after individual tragedy is telling of her talent.

What do…

It’s always interesting to revisit the birth of a phenomenon. And J.R. Ward’s Brotherhood of the Black Dagger novels definitely qualify as a phenomenon.

I was slow to jump on this particular craze in Romancelandia. I tend to resist reading what’s the latest ‘big’ thing. Don’t know why – maybe I’m just hard to get along with.

It could also be that I feel by the time I’ve read all the hype, I’ve already read the book. The Net was buzzing with how great the BBD books were from the moment they hit the stands, but I’d gone through a vampire story stage in the mid-90s and I was over all that blood-sucking, macho posing.

But a lot of people whose opinion I trusted told me I HAD to read these books.

So largely…

Reviewed by Marisa O’Neill
Publisher: Harlequin Blaze
4 stars

Getting married  just so you can have sex can leave you questioning your reasons for putting on a white dress, inviting 250 people to a party and having your best friend wear pink – a color she’s not fond of. Finding out your fiancé is marrying you because he wants to get in good with your father and climb the ladder of professional success, well that’s worse.  Solution – run out and leave him standing at the altar.

Tawny Weber’s newest release, Coming On Strong is fun, sexy and exciting. With a blend of quick dialogue and emotion, this book blends romance, sabotage, sex and friendship for a fast paced read. Six years after leaving her fiancé at the alter, Belle Forsham and her partner/best friend…

That’s the one question authors are asked more than any other.  There’s a fascination with the process and, to be honest, it’s one that authors ask themselves just as frequently.   When I set out to write the book that I’d contracted to deliver for publication this month, I was planning something involving house renovation and a hero and heroine who’d known one another all their lives,

My editor, when she listened to my idea, made that little noise she reserves solely for moments when you’ve not saying what she wants to hear.  A long “Mmmmm…” that sends the heart thudding down into your boots.

“Could you add a baby?” she asked.

I swallowed.  I had my story.  It was going to that light, fluffy thing she said she wanted when we had a…