A few of my favorite author’s books
Periodically I post my own reviews of books I’ve exceptional. All of these are Historical Romance. Each are set in a different time in history. Ane Mulligan and Pegg Thomas are fast become two of my favorite authors alongside Mary Connealy when it comes to Historical Romance. Here’s my reviews and the back cover copy for each of these new releases.
Ane Mulligan took me on a delightful jaunt through Sugar Hill, Georgia during the depression. I was given a copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion. And honestly, WOW! It was so much more than I expected. Just as Mulligan’s previous book In High Cotton, book one in the Georgia Magnolia series, she has captured the very essence of the depression era. The slang terms, idiosyncrasies, and sweet sensibilities of the south. I enjoyed seeing a vaudeville ventriloquist return home to help her widowed mother financially only to discover she had no marketable skills in the real world. But that didn’t stop her from finding a solution after a few outlandish ones. Mulligan is a skilled storyteller and her characters have so many unexpected layers. I will continue to follow this talented writer. Released on June 1st.
Order here: https://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Hill-Georgia-Magnolias-Book-ebook/dp/B093CGTGC3/
Back cover copy for On Sugar Hill
To make ends meet, the Fitzgerald women must open their home as a boardinghouse, but will the secrets they uncover prove their undoing?
The day Cora Fitzgerald turned sixteen, she fled Sugar Hill for the bright lights of New York City, leaving behind her senator father’s abuse. But just as her career takes off, she’s summoned home.
The stock market has crashed. The senator is dead. Her mother is delusional, and her mute Aunt Clara pens novels that expose the town’s secrets. Then there’s Boone Robertson, who never knew she was alive back in high school but now manages to be around whenever she needs help.
And the Fitzgerald women need a lot of help, indeed. They are forced to find a way to make ends meet, whether it’s mining for gold or doing what Southern women have done for generations in times of need—turning their home into a boardinghouse.
But will the people of Cora’s past keep her from returning to a brilliant future?
Pegg Thomas never ceases to amaze me with the depth of research she does before writing her tales. Her love of the Colonial time period is obvious. This is her best work so far. Set during the early expansion of America in the rough, untamed wilderness she weaves a love story amid Indian attacks on settlers. Americans are still British citizens and smallpox is a genuine threat. There are twists in this plot I did not expect. The emotional depth is so believable. The character of Sarah is not a modern woman set in a historical setting but a strong pioneer woman doing what she must survive in a harsh environment. But her emotional challenges are so relatable. An Cully couldn’t be a better hero for Sarah. I loved them so much. When the next installment comes out, I’ll be one of the first to grab a copy. Releases August 3rd.
Pre-order here. https://www.amazon.com/Sarahs-Choice-Pegg-Thomas-ebook/dp/B08ZPX7FZ5/
Back cover copy of Sarah’s Choice
Sarah Feight has her life planned with a loving husband, a promising new settlement, and big dreams to shape the future of trade on Pennsylvania’s frontier. An Indian attack at dawn changes everything.
When he pulls his freight wagons into Fort Pitt, Leith McCully never dreams he’ll be conscripted into the militia and ordered to defend the fort. Worried about trader friends on his delivery route, he rides to their settlement and returns with Sarah, the only survivor.
Fort Pitt is crowded to twice its capacity with the settlers who have taken refuge there and surrounded by the rising smoke of burned-out settlements. Tempers flare, disease breaks out, and the constant fear of the next attack has everyone on edge.
Cully keeps an eye on Sarah because he feels responsible for her. And, though he doesn’t admit as much, she tugs at his heart. Sarah sees Cully as the last link to her past. A friend of her husband’s family. She’s going to need someone she can trust, and she trusts Cully. Her rescuer.
Are trust and admiration enough to help them survive the siege and its devastating consequences? Is there any hope for a future beyond?
Mary Connealy has hooked me once again with her newest release Braced for Love, book one in the Brothers in Arms series. She always weaves a thread of villainous intrigue through every series she writes that comes to a resolution in the last book in the series. This family saga is different, it brings three strangers together that had no idea their father had other families. Kevin Hunt is a great character, honest, dependable and determined to do right by his siblings. He and Wyatt Hunt are at odds from the moment Kevin steps off the train in Montana. Winona Hawkins is the peacemaker that stands between the two unlikely half-brothers.The third mysterious brother looks so much like Kevin’s no-account father he takes a disliking to him as well. The tension is fun to follow. As always in Connealy’s books, the heroes are capable and brave men but awkward when it comes to matters of the heart. I can’t wait for the next installment of this series, Man with a Past.
Order here. https://www.amazon.com/Braced-Love-Brothers-Arms-Book-ebook/dp/B08CJN3L4Q/
Back Cover copy for Braced For Love
Left with little back in Missouri, Kevin Hunt takes his younger siblings on a journey to Wyoming when he receives news that he’s inheriting part of a ranch. The catch is that the ranch is also being given to a half brother he never knew existed. Turns out, Kevin’s supposedly dead father led a secret and scandalous life.
But danger seems to track Kevin along the way, and he wonders if his half brother, Wyatt, is behind the attacks. Finally arriving at the ranch, everyone is at each other’s throats and the only one willing to stand in between is Winona Hawkins, a nearby schoolmarm.
Despite being a long-time friend to Wyatt, Winona can’t help but be drawn to the earnest, kind Kevin–and that puts her in the cross hairs of somebody’s dangerous plot. Will they all be able to put aside their differences long enough to keep anyone from getting truly hurt?
As I’ve confessed before I’m a readaholic. So, next Thursday I’ll share some new contemporary novels I’ve read.
What’s a book you enjoyed recently? Post it in the comments.