Review: Mistress Spy by Pamela Mingle

Title: Mistress Spy
Author: Pamela Mingle

Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: August 27, 2018
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Amara)
ASIN: 1640636218

A determined sister...
Madeleine Vernon’s dreams should be filled with elegant gowns and marriageable men. Instead, she dreams of avenging her brother’s death. But when she’s captured by the queen’s men, she’s forced to become a spy by her mysterious yet undeniably attractive captor.

A rakish spy...
After years of working for his father in Queen Elizabeth’s service, Nicholas Ryder is close to going his own way. But now he’s got a feisty beauty he must protect or risk her execution as a traitor to the crown. She’s a distraction he can’t afford, but he also can’t stop thinking about her.

A dangerous lie...
It is Nicholas’s job to foil plots against Elizabeth, and he sends Maddy into a household of suspected traitors to garner what information she can. As the line between captor and prisoner blurs, deceit, betrayal, and desire become a perilous mix. Ultimately, Nicholas must decide whether duty to the queen is more important than winning Maddy’s heart.

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Review: Across A Moonlit Sea by Marsha Canham

Title: Across a Moonlit Sea
Series: Pirate Wolf (Dante Pirates)
Author: Marsha Canham
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: June 1, 2011
Publisher: Marsha Canham
ASIN: B0053Y1M5A

The Pirate Wolf...
He was French by birth, half English by blood, and reported to be all larceny by nature. One of Queen Elizabeth's legendary sea hawks, the rogue nobleman Simon Dante nearly lost his life when his partner turned coward and betrayed him for a king's ransom in stolen gold. Simon vowed nothing would stop him from seeking revenge...until he found himself at the sensual mercy of a lady privateer.

The Black Swan...
Beau Spence had learned the hard way how quickly men tired of their spoils. For eight years she had sailed the Caribbean with her father and not once had she met a man who caused one moment of regret for the life she had chosen...until a reckless challenge from the infamous Pirate Wolf forced her to fight back with her own powers of seduction. And when these two renegades reluctantly join forces, it is their firestorm of raging passion that sweeps them into a sea of danger and desire...

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Review: Captain Seadog by Jefferson Cooper

Title: Captain Seadog
Author: Jefferson Cooper

Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: May, 1959
Publisher: Pocket Books


RED WINE...FAIR WOMEN...FABULOUS WEALTH...
These were the rewards Michael Goddard dreamed of when he returned to England with a treasure taken at sword's point from the proud galleons of the Spanish Main.

But instead, Goddard was falsely accused of treachery to Queen Elizabeth. He was left to rot in a dungeon.

Then, suddenly and mysteriously, he was helped to escape. His rescuer was a ravishingly beautiful woman he had never even seen before. And the mystery deepened when Good Queen Bess herself ordered him to perform a service upon which hung the fate of all England.

Was this just another trap baited by and English beauty? Or was it the way for this lusty swordsman to regain his honor and his glittering fortune? What was Goddard to believe?

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Review: Once Upon A Pillow (anthology) by Christina Dodd, Connie Brockway

Title: Once Upon a Pillow
Author: Christina Dodd, Connie Brockway

Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: January 27, 2004
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 0743459466
ISBN-13: 9780743459464

As Laurel Whitney leads a tour of an old English manor, she tells romanticized tales of how the exquisite Masterson bed affected the lives of couples who slept in it. The actual stories—which sweep through medieval times, the Elizabethan era, and the Regency period—are sexier and bawdier than she can say! Shocked to see her former lover on the tour, Laurel is even more surprised to find their love rekindled when a twist of fate tempts them to give the famed Masterson bed a whirl.

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