Drumroll, please…And 2011 RITA finalists are…

RWA (Romance Writers of America) has announced 2011 RITA and Golden Heart Award finalists. The 2011 RITA will honor romance fiction published in 2010. More than 1,100 novels and novellas were judged in 12 categories. The 2011 Golden Heart Award honors unpublished romance manuscripts in 2010. Winners of the awards will be announced July 1, 2011 at…

My ‘Romance Reader At Heart’ Book Reviews

My evenings have been lonely lately with my DH working evening shift, so I had plenty of time to read. I received about ten books from 'Romance Reader at Heart' and it felt like Christmas Morning. "Awakened by a Kiss" by Lila DiPasqua "An Unlikely Countess" by Jo Beverley "Never a Gentleman" by Eileen Dreyer…

DWTS…and off they GO!

True to my word, I'm watching yet another season of CTW ( 'Celebrity Train Wreck'). Last season I was going nuts with Palin 'chicklet' and this year is looking even worse than the last. We have a hodge-podge of Celebrity's I've not seen in a long time, and some I hoped never to see. Here's the list for Season 12:…

“Call Me Irresistible” by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

STORY: Lucy Jorik is the daughter of the former President of the United States. Meg Koranda is the offspring of legends. One of them is about to marry Mr. Irresistible—Ted Beaudine—the favorite son of Wynette, Texas. The other is not happy about it and is determined to save her friend from a mess of heartache. RSVP TO THE…

Joined RR@HEART!

I'm doing a happy dance today. I was just welcomed to Romance Reader At Heart website and I have to tell you I'm really very happy about it. I will join Nancy and her little group in reading and reviewing romance novels. NO! I'm not abandoning my 'baby' here. I'll still be posting book reviews here as well,…

5 Star Books on My Keeper Shelf!

“The Heiress” by Lynsey Sands or “The Countess” REDUX!

STORY: Suzette is not like other heiresses; she wants a poor husband, a gentleman who will be so grateful for her dowry that he will allow her access to it so that she can pay off her father's gambling debts. When this alluring beauty encounters Daniel Woodrow—handsome, titled, single . . . and even more…

“Invitation to Ruin” by Bronwen Evans

STORY:  The only thing Miss Melissa Goodly has ever wanted out of a marriage is love. But any hope of that dissolves one wild night, when she loses herself in the arms of the most irresistible-and unobtainable-man in all of England. For when they are discovered in a position as compromising as it is pleasurable,…