My New Year’s Resolution  Like many of you my goals for 2016 are to eat better and exercise more and try to take off a few pounds. I think as we get older we are more aware of our mortality. As we bid goodbye to friends and loved ones, death becomes very real. If this was your last year on earth what would you do? … Continue reading New Year’s Resolution 

While You Were Spying  While You Were Spying by Shana Galen is the perfectly fun book for anyone who loves Regency Romance with a little something extra. Ethan Caxton is everything a suave spy should be and Fracesca Dashing is the innocent young woman who turns his well ordered world upside down.  When the Foreign Office sent him to Hampshire to learn the identity of … Continue reading While You Were Spying 

After discovering one of my favorite authors was also the contemporary romance writer Jayne Ann Krentz I began reading more genres and sub genres of fiction, especially romance. In Secret Sisters JAK gives me everything I love in a great story: chemistry, adventure, intrigue and attitude! I love the heroines Madeline and Daphne. The women each have their weaknesses but their strength of character, purpose … Continue reading Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz 

Anna Campbell’s A Pirate for Christmas and Her Christmas Earl were two fun and different Regency Romance Christmas Novellas. I so enjoyed the characters in both of these stories. Strong heroines and sexy heroes fulfill a few fantasies for readers. Who wouldn’t fall for an enigmatic Scottish Pirate or wish to reform a notorious Scottish rake?  The heroines, while vulnerable were used to being in … Continue reading Christmas Novellas 

What Happens Under the Mistletoe Sabrina Jeffries, Karen Hawkins, Candace Camp and Meredith Duran  I bought this Christmas Anthology because, as most of you know I adore Sabrina Jeffries. Not only is she a wonderful writer she is also a fabulous person. Having met her in person her books hold an even greater appeal.  I love that she does a series using secondary characters we’ve met … Continue reading What Happens Under the Mistletoe 

Christmas Revels II: Four Regency Novellas By: Hannah Meredith, Anna D. Allen, Kate Parker and Louisa Cornell These four writers have very different styles but the one thing they agree on is strong characters. Hannah Meredith’s A Christmas Equation is a second chance at love story set during a house party. A mistake turns into renewed friendship and rekindled love if they can just overcome the … Continue reading Christmas Revels II

– Frantic shoppers fill the aisles IPhone talker’s way too loud. Rammed with a cart Smarmy elf farts And a little old lady ran away with my shoes. Candy canes, cakes and calories galore A skinny Santa drunk on the floor Screaming grannies Elastic popped panties Another Carol sung off key.  Flip flops and peppermint martinis Daisy Dukes and Santa suits Tangles of tinsel Elvis’ Blue … Continue reading A Southern Christmas 

As you all know I love scarves, today I paired this plain terra cotta scarf with an old necklace for a new look. The scarf was bought at the Hospice Store for $2 and the necklace was a hand-me-down gift. Inexpensive ways to refresh your wardrobe, scarves are fun and interesting to play with.    Continue reading The Scarf Lady strikes again