Review: Master of Love by Catherine LaRoche

Format read: ebook
Series: N/A
Genre: Historical Romance
Release Date: Dec. 3, 2012
Number of pages: 336 pages
Publisher: Pocket Star (Simon and Schuster)
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Book Depository US | Book Depository (UK)

A sexy historical romance featuring a genteel book dealer who is commissioned to organize an impressive personal library in the home of London’s most notoriously seductive lord.

Dominick Avery, Viscount Rexton, has a brilliant mind, yet is so intoxicatingly handsome no one ever takes his intellect seriously. He cultivates a wicked reputation as Lord Adonis, Master of Love, until his uncle sends him an irresistible bequest of books, on the condition he accept also the prim librarian who comes with them.

Miss Callista Higginbotham struggles to support her quirky household as a rare book dealer and librarian, while tottering on the dangerous edge …

Review: How to Tame a Willful Wife by Christy English

Format read: ebook copy provided by publisher through NetGalley
Series: Book #1 in the Shakespeare in Love series
Release Date: 6 November 2012
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Number of pages: 352 pages
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK

Blurb:

How To Tame A Willful Wife:

1. Forbid her from riding astride
2. Hide her dueling sword
3. Burn all her breeches and buy her silk drawers
4. Frisk her for hidden daggers
5. Don’t get distracted while frisking her for hidden daggers…

Anthony Carrington, Earl of Ravensbrook, expects a biddable bride. A man of fiery passion tempered by the rigors of war into steely self-control, he demands obedience from his troops and his future wife. Regardless of how fetching she looks in breeches.

Promised to the Earl of Plump Pockets by her impoverished father, Caroline Montague is no simpering miss. She rides a war …

Review: The Weird Girls by Cecy Robson

Title: The Weird Girls: A Novella, by Cecy Robson
Format Read: e-book purchased by reviewer
Length: novella
Genre: urban fantasy romance
Series: Weird Girls, #0.5
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Publisher: Penguin Group
Formats Available: e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Publisher’s Website, Author’s Website

Book Blurb:

Celia Wird and her three sisters are just like other 20-something girls—with one tiny exception: they’re products of a backfired curse that has given each of them unique powers that make them, well, a little weird…

The Wird sisters are different from every race on earth—human and supernatural. When human society is no longer an option for them, they move in among the resident vampires, werebeasts, and witches of the Lake Tahoe region. Could this be the true home they’ve longed for? Um, not quite. After the sisters accidentally strip a witch of her powers in a bar brawl, they soon realize the mistake will cost them. Because to take on a witch means …

Interview with Christy McKellen + Giveaway

Today we are happy to introduce you to newcomer romance author Christy McKellen, whose debut novel Her New Worst Enemy just got released! So join me as I got to ask Christy a couple of questions about the book, its characters and the things (and locations! ;-)) that inspired it. And if you answer Christy’s question you could even win a copy of Her New Worst Enemy! 😉

Stella: Hi Christy, welcome to Book Lovers Inc! Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Christy: Hi Stella, thanks so much for having me here today.

My debut Her New Worst Enemy was released on 7th January this year by Crimson Romance, which makes me a brand spanking new author! I gave up my career as a Video and Radio Producer seven years ago to raise my children and I’ve been working towards writing for publication for the last few years. I …

Review: Rescuing Christmas by Vicki Lewis Thompson, Catherine Mann, Kathie DeNosky

Format read: ebook copy provided by publisher through NetGalley
Release Date: 30 October 2012
Publisher: Harlequin
Number of pages: 320 pages
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK

Blurb:

Holiday Haven by Vicki Lewis Thompson

All Ben Rhodes wants for Christmas is to be left alone. And yet, in a fit of Christmas-cheer-induced insanity, he agrees to help beautiful shelter director Tansy Dexter find homes for all her rambunctious animals. Little does he know that the one truly in need of a loving home this season…is him.

Home for Christmas by Catherine Mann

Information from Ms Mann’s newsletter: For those of you who enjoyed my Wingmen Warrior series, this story features Zach Dawson’s daughter Shelby, all grown up and ready for her own happily ever after with a flyboy!

Shelby Conrad has had more than her fair share of silent nights. But …

Guest Post: Catherine Hemmerling + Giveaway

Today we are really delighted to welcome author Catherine Hemmerling here at Book Lovers Inc, in celebration of her debut release with Entangled Publishing, Taming Her Forbidden Earl. With Taming Her Forbidden Earl, Entangled launches the brand new imprint, Scandalous and from what it seems, Catherine Hemmerling’s story, fits right there in the scandalous description!So, let’s welcome Catherine and don’t forget to check at the end of the post for the details of the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of this very promising story 🙂

 
– You have woven a quite intriguing story Ms. Hemmerling with the combination of historical romance and mystery, could you tell us a bit more about the Lady Lancaster’s Garden Society? Is it something you made up or did it have some historical ground, did maybe a real club inspire it? What kind of research did you do for the story?

Lady Lancaster’s …

Guestpost: Author Delilah Marvelle + Giveaway

Welcome everyone to our special stop on the Blog Tour for  All I Want For Christmas is a Duke ! Today we welcome author Delilah Marvelle, one of the 2 authors on this Holiday anthology.  She will tell us the Story behind the Story 😉 Stay tuned and you can win an Amazon Gift Card. Let’s give a warm welcome to Delilah!

I’ve always wanted to write a Christmas themed historical romance. Always. I just didn’t have the right story to go with it. I waited and I waited for something special to inspire me and oddly, that inspiration came when I least expected it.

I was re-watching ‘The Graduate’ with my husband when my characters both whizzed into focus. I simply *had* to a write a story about an older woman and a younger man set in Dickens’s era during Christmas. Don’t ask me how I made …