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: Safe From Harm by Kate SeRine

Title: Safe From Harm
Series: Protect & Serve
Author: Kate SeRine
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: October 4, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ASIN: B01JBB6SSG

BLURB

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Review: Stop at Nothing by Kate SeRine

Title: Stop at Nothing
Series: Protect & Serve
Author: Kate SeRine
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: November 3, 2015
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ASIN: B0108GOL4G

When a high-profile investigation goes wrong, FBI Agent Kyle Dawson is transferred back home where he is forced to confront his demons...and the only woman he ever loved. Three years ago, Kyle and Abby Morrow shared a wild, passionate summer-then Abby broke his heart.

Now she needs his help
Kyle never stopped loving Abby. So when Abby uncovers evidence of a human-trafficking ring, leading to her sister's kidnapping, he swears he'll stop at nothing to bring her sister home and keep Abby safe. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse and blindsided by their own explosive desires, they must set aside the past before it's too late.

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Review: The Scandalous Widow by Erica Monroe

Title: The Scandalous Widow
Series: Gothic Brides
Author: Erica Monroe
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: April 24, 2018
Publisher: Quillfire Publishing
ASIN: B079D2MSYK

Lady Jemma Forster knows all too well how ruthless gossip-mongers can be. She sacrificed her own happiness to restore her family's reputation. Her marriage of convenience to an affluent earl meant saying goodbye to passion, and any chance at love with the dashing lawman who set her soul aflame. She leads a sedate, practical life as the Countess of Wolverston. Until her husband is murdered, and the only man who can bring his killers to justice is her former love.

Bow Street Runner Gabriel Sinclair has spent the last three years trying to forget about smart, beautiful Lady Jemma, who broke his heart when she married his best friend. The Earl of Wolverston's death thrusts Gabriel and Jemma back together, as they work to find his murderer. Their investigation takes them into the darkest, most dangerous parts of London, with threats coming from all sides. They're perfect partners for solving crimes, but can they be partners in love too?

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Review: Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Title: Fear: Trump in the White House
Author: Bob Woodward

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Published: September 11, 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ASIN: B075RV48W3

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.

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Review: The Determined Duchess by Erica Monroe

Title: The Determined Duchess
Series: Gothic Brides
Author: Erica Monroe
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Published: March 27, 2018
Publisher: Quillfire Publishing
ASIN: B078P37N2Q

After the death of her beloved guardian, Miss Felicity Fields is left adrift, her future uncertain. Grief-stricken, she launches a plan to use her knowledge of alchemy to build a Philosopher's Stone, and bring back to life the woman who was like a mother to her. The last thing this blunt bluestocking needs is the return of Nicholas Harding, the Duke of Wycliffe and rightful owner of her home on the wild coast of Cornwall. He stirs an unexpected passion within her, and Felicity has had enough change in her life.

When they were children, Nicholas never understood his aunt's brilliant but unemotional ward, or her many strange scientific studies. He ought to take her back to London, so she can make a proper society match--except he can't stop thinking about her. But with the line between life and death blurred by Felicity's macabre experiments, can he convince her that she's no longer alone, and her proper place is by his side?

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Review: The Mad Countess by Erica Monroe

Title: The Mad Countess
Series: Gothic Brides
Author: Erica Monroe
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Published: March 21, 2017
Publisher: Quillfire Publishing
ASIN: B01N118TGS

Theodore Lockwood, Earl of Ashbrooke, has been in love with his best friend, Lady Claire Deering, for as long as he can remember. Claire too harbors a secret desire for him—but a witch cursed her family with madness, and she's terrified she'll only hurt him if they act on their feelings. When a will reading at a mysterious castle in Cornwall brings them both together on All Hallows Eve, they'll work to break her family's curse...and find true love.

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