In the seminal modern romance novel The Flame and the Flower, Kathleen Woodiwiss provided the blueprint for the future of the historical romance, at least the Regency ones. But it really wasn’t my kind of book. In fact, I never made it past the first sex scene. Why? Well, let’s just say that it doesn’t
Black Knight White Queen Thai Beef Tacos & Salad
image courtesy of JackieAshenden.com Scene: Bangkok. Take one back-packing heroine and one chess genius hero. Add heat. That’s pretty much Black Knight White Queen in a nutshell. A peanut shell. This erotic romance has quite a bit more emotional range than it seems at first blush. Aleks is a Russian chess champion in Thailand for a
Welcome to Cooking Up Romance
Welcome to Cooking Up Romance! I’ve loved romance novels since I first discovered Julie Garwood’s Highland books in junior high. Until recently, Regency historicals were pretty much all I read, but then I discovered Jackie Horne’s Romance Novels for Feminists blog and my reading has branched out considerably since then. For a couple of months