After I fell in love with the 2004 BBC miniseries North & South and read Elizabeth Gaskell's excellent novel, I went looking through the world of fan-written sequels. There are some excellent works out there (for example, Lucy Stone's Pack Clouds Away is fantastic, continuing in Gaskell's writing style so seamlessly that it feels as if Gaskell ( Read more... )

I just read Beverly Farr's Baby Comes First and was thoroughly engaged and very impressed. It's a rare, consistently-intelligent romance with a healthy power dynamic between the two leads.

Here's the blurb:
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage -- but Hannah’s doing it in the wrong order ( Read more... )

A friend of mine suggested that I read Joshua Sanofsky's debut novel, Family Ties, and I picked it up...and quickly found myself in love with (most of) it.

Here's the blurb:
For Alys Kinnear, becoming a wizard was her life's ambition, but it's an ambition that might just cost her her life. Does a country girl from Éire have what it takes to handle ( Read more... )

I just devoured Sophie Kinsella's I've Got Your Number and loved it!

Here's the blurb:

Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry the ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her ‘happy ever after’ begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring but in the panic that followed, she has now lost her phone. As ( Read more... )

So I've long been a huge fan of Pride & Prejudice,( but another story has displaced it from its pedestal as my favorite period romance. )