A few weeks ago, Renee of Renee’s Book Addiction decided to start blogging about romances that had become her favorites as she’s been reading. It’s a well known fact that there’s very little that I enjoy more than making a list. So, I decided to list my favorites too in the hopes that this might inspire a good conversation about what makes a romance your favorite, which genres are you favorites and of course, which books I’m missing or you’ve read that you think should be on the list.

Please note with each genre, I’ve listed only ONE book by each author (even though many of these authors have multiple books on my keeper shelves) and only ONE book in a series. It should also be noted that although these books…

Reviewed by Gannon Carr
Publisher: Berkley Sensations
4 stars
Upyr elder, Edmund Fitz Clare, has been kidnapped by a rival faction of vampires and is being held prisoner in the dungeon of a castle in Switzerland.  His enemies are determined to use him and his shapeshifting abilities to create a race of beings who could rule the world.  And they are willing to sell to the highest bidder, which in this case happens to be the Nazis!

Edmund’s fiancée, Estelle and his three children, Graham, Ben and Sally, are frantic in their quest to discover Edmund’s whereabouts, but only know that Edmund is no longer in London.  Estelle begins “dream walking”-finding rapture in Edmund’s arms once more.  When she wakes, she’s alone, but is still experiencing the throes of ecstasy.  Initially puzzled by what’s…

Wow! It’s so cool to be here at RomanceNovel.TV!  This month my new book from St. Martin’s Press, EVERYWHERE SHE TURNS, is on the shelves!  This story really hits close to home for me.  The setting for the story is in Huntsville, Alabama, in the village where I live.  I, of course, changed the name so as not to offend any of my neighbors.

The seed of an idea for this story germinated last spring as my family and I moved into an old mill house (110 years old!) and started the necessary renovations.  Trust me, it was not pretty.  Many of the proud old homes had fallen into disrepair and had for years been owned by absentee landlords.  When the mill closed and was torn down more than two decades…

Reviewed by: Kate Garrabrant
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: June 30
Stars: 4

Lucien de Grey, the Duke of Marchmont has an interesting history with Lord Lexham’s daughter, Zoe Octavia. When a ten-year-old Lucien lost his parents, his father’s best friend, who happened to be Lexham, took him and his brother Gerard into his home. Lucian and Gerard were quite welcomed into the Lexham brood. But the child who makes the most impression on Lucian, is five-year-old Zoe Octavia. Zoe was there always annoying Lucien and getting into trouble. She had a bad habit of running away and not doing what she is told. And because of that unfortunate trait, Zoe Octavia goes missing for years. When she was twelve, her parents took her on a tour of the eastern Mediterranean. It is public knowledge…

Maria turned me on to this video and I had to pass it on to you. I’m wondering if Sondheim had any idea what would happen to his lyrics in 2009. You can’t believe how Maria, Tony and the gang find their way through Twitter, Facebook, eHarmony and the like.

Reviewed by Stacy  Ahlgren
Publisher: Penguin
4 Stars

Nola Grainger is living a great life in Chicago. She’s built her photography business into something to be proud of, she has wonderful friends and an amazing lover. But when her grandmother dies, she might have to give it all up and go live in Resnick, the small town in Georgia where she grew up, in order to get her inheritance. Nola’s not interested in any money, but Lochhaven, the lovely southern home she grew up in, would be all her’s. There’s just one small catch: Nola has to be married in order to claim her inheritance, and she’s got 30 days to get it done, or otherwise the house along with everything that goes with it will go to someone else.

Of course Nola is…