Hope Springs Eternal

Hope Springs Eternal by Ginger Simpson



Eternal Press Production



April 2009



ISBN: 978-1-926647-62-3



Pages: 70





Hope Harrison realizing that it has been too long since the last time she has seen her doctor decides to rectify that oversight. Calling her doctor’s office she is in for a few surprises. First being that her doctor has retired and turned over all his patients to a new doctor. Next is the doctor himself.



Dr. Jerrod Carlson has taken over Hope’s other doctor’s practice. Jerrod figured it would be just another routine exam. He soon finds out it is anything but routine. Jerrod never planned on falling in love with his patient but when he first sees Hope he finds something he didn’t know he was searching for.



Lucky for Hope she has a friend that makes sure that when Hope is having doubts that she doesn’t let those doubts take over.



Now things are heating up and going places neither saw coming. If they can just work out some details they just might have a chance at a happy ending.





This was a very good book. The characters are ones that the reader can relate to and understand their emotions and motivations. It is a story of everyday people falling in love and having to work through their problems for a happy ending.





I give this one 4 red roses.

Shadows Of The Past

Margaret Blake
Shadows Of The Past
Publisher Robert Hale
ISBN 978-0-7090-8774-8
£18.88
223 pages

This is a classy romance suspense about a woman who has lost her memory. When Alva’s husband claims her and takes her back to his private island, she cannot remember anything that happened to her before her accident. At first she dislikes the seemingly cold man she cannot recognise. Then she begins to feel a strong physical sense of attraction when he is with her. However, when she learns that he believes she tried to kill herself to get rid of their baby, Alva knows something is wrong. She may not be able to remember, but she knows she would never do anything like that – it is just not in her.

Slowly the mystery begins to unravel and pieces of the past come back to her. An attempt on her life makes her realise that she must know something that someone else considers dangerous. Will she recover her memory in time to save both her marriage and her life – or will she remember something that blows her whole world apart?

This book has a surprising ending and is a page-turner. I give the book 4,5 red roses, Morna

Pure Magic

Pure Magic by Anne Sorgeson



Publisher: Red Rose Publishing



Date:



ISBN: 978-1-60435-175-0



Pages: 47





Cassie has been Harold’s magic assistant for years. Though through the years they have both dated other people and had to deal with others jealously with their relationship they were always just friends. Cassie and Harold are starting a new show and as they are practicing and putting their props together they are starting to look at each other in a new light.



Cassie knows this is her chance to let Harold know just how she feels about him. She is starting to think that there just might be a chance that Harold feels the same way about her. Now if she can just get up her nerve to show him how very much she has always cared about him they just might be able to have a future together other than just as magician and assistant.





This is a cute story that is a nice quick read. There characters are interesting. It is a fun look to get a small peek behind the scenes of a magic act. I enjoyed seeing how Cassie decided to get what she has always wanted.





I give this one 3 and ½ red roses

Czech Mate

Sloane Taylor. Czech Mate. Ebook 85 pages. Copyright Sloane Taylor. Publisher Amber Quill

Lacey has been let down. She is stuck in Prague without enough money for a decent hotel and a plane ticket she can’t change. Dragan witnesses her confusion in his hotel and doesn’t like it. He is determined to throw her out, but she is doing outrageous things to his libido. Lacey is similarly affected. They haven’t got off to a good start but Dragan has a heart. He changes his mind about throwing her out when he discovers she actually has a room booked. Besides, Prague is full because of a convention.

Lacey is a designer and soon discovers the hotel needs a tasteful makeover. Someone didn’t know his or her business when it was done. Can she convince Dragan she is the girl for him – in more ways than one? For the moment they have more important things on their mind. Just as things look to be going well the rat who let her down turns up. Will he ruin everything?

The author brings her sharp wit to this book, giving the reader a sexy and entertaining story that ends just as it should. As usual Taylor has written a very sensual and enjoyable book. 4.5 red roses, Linda Sole

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberHeat/CzechMate.html

Kate Of Kratos

Kate of Kratos by Robert Appleton
The third book in the Elemental Crossing series
Publisher Eternal Press.
Ebook, 92 pages

This book begins where the second left off. Kate is alone and tracking Jason, who has been carried off by one of the predators of this strange and wonderful world that Robert Appleton has created. Her journey is much advanced by the discovery that she can bounce huge distances on the membrane canopy of the forest.

Catching up with Jason she finds that he has been dumped in a sort of larder for the beasts and with him are three more survivors from the Monique, the crashed space ship that brought them to this planet. They came in search of a powerful element that would provide fuel for their own world and have found it in large amounts. Can they now use it to help them escape from the vicious creatures that see them as food – and can Kate and Jason find happiness after all their adventures?

What makes these three books so appealing is that the author seems to have an endless vision of strange and different monsters and writes vividly of the beautiful strangeness of the planet. I feel this author will one day write a science fiction masterpiece. He is at this moment feeling his way but I believe when he has the courage to strike out for where he belongs – in mainstream print – he will have a promising career.

Once again I can only give this book five red roses. I loved the ending. Linda Sole

A Country Cotillion

A COUNTRY COTILLION

BY

SANDRA HEATH

PUBLISHED BY ROBERT HALE LONDON.

ISBN 978-0-7090-8659-8
£18.99





On a bitterly cold night in January 1814 a beautiful young widow, named Elizabeth French set out from her home, Oakgrove house in Kensington, to attend the Grand Ball given by the Duke of Devonshire. She was to attend with her soon to be betrothed Sir Alexander Norrington.

Elizabeth was the widow of James French a notorious young rake who after only a few years of marriage had broken her heart. At first he had been all a young bride could wish for but when they went to live in Madras he had soon altered, becoming cruel and unfaithful whenever he wanted to. In the end the furious husband of a lady James had been having an affair with, had killed him in a duel. Elizabeth mourned her young husband as he was in the beginning, but was glad to be free of the man he had become.

She knew that Alexander could never thrill her, as James had done at the start of their life together, but he was kind and gentle and she was happy to settle for that...or was she?

One day while driving in the city to visit her Aunt, she decided to look at the house she and James had lived in when first they were married, where they were very happy. While she sat in her carriage the door of the house she was watching, opened and a young man came out. Her heart jolted. Was it James? No it could not be but he looked so similar that it filled her with longing for the young James once more.

Many moments of longing and sadness were to unsettle Elizabeth over the next few weeks. She no longer trusted her own heart for when Alexander kissed her she wished it was the young man who so reminded her of James and although she would probably never know who he was or where he was from, the longing would not go away. Could she go through with her betrothal ball feeling this way and was it fair to Alexander, knowing as she did that he could never capture her whole heart?

The plot in this lovely Regency romance is good with many twists. The description of places and houses they visit is excellent. You could be in the rooms with them; indeed you are with them. I have not given much of the story away as I feel that might spoil the pleasure for future readers. Please read this lovely book and enjoy it, I am sure that you will, I loved it. I award this book 5 RedRoses.

Bronze Lightening

Bronze Lightening by Lindsay Townsend

Siren-BookStrand

March 2009

ISBN: 1-60601-273-8

Pages: 356



Krete, c 1562 BC
Isle of Stones – Kingdom of the Atterians, 1561 BC


Sarmatia is the Bull Rider in the sacred rites. It is her place to help the children go through the rite so that they may become adults. She has always been content with her life but that is about to change with a chance meeting, a meeting that will end up transforming her view of life.

Fearn has always been a healer. It is his ability to heal that has made his name know far and wide. He has come to Krete to heal the king. Traveling to Krete has given Fearn the chance to meet Sarmatia, which has changed his life.

Fearn has found the one woman that he wants to spend his life with. Before he can do that he needs to make sure his people have a healer when he is gone. He goes home with the promise to Sarmatia that he will return for her and that they will be together. Once home he finds opposition to his leaving his family and the people. As he is about to leave having trained a new healer the unthinkable happens and the king dies. Now being part of the royal family Fearn must be tested along with others to see who will be the new king. Wanting no part of ruling the people Fearn nonetheless takes the test to show his good will. The one thing Fearn never saw coming was inheriting the crown. Now the only chance he has at happiness is if Sarmatia is willing to come to him on a several months long journey and giving up the life she has always known.

How strong is Sarmatia? She is about to find out just what she is capable of. She is about to start on a journey that will test her in its own way. One that if she is not careful she just might not survive. Sarmatia is going to find out just how much she loves Fearn as she is tested time and again.

Thinking that once she is reunited with Fearn that all will be well. Now they are going to be able to start their lives together she finds that she is very much mistaken. Some one is trying to hurt them and if they don’t find out who is behind the attacks they just might not be able to have a life together after all. Someone wants what they have and will stop at nothing until they get what they want. There are several people with a motive but which one is conniving enough to get away with the stealthy attacks without being seen. They will have to survive long enough to find the person or persons so that they will finally have the happiness they have tried so hard to enjoy.



This is a remarkable book in that it takes you back in time. It is well written so that you get a glimpse of the world at that time and it gives you a wonderful mystery as to who is behind the attacks and keeps you guessing as to what will happen next. The many twists and turns keeps you engrossed as you try to figure out who is behind all the mishaps that keep happening.

I give this one 4-1/2 red roses.