Into the Shadows Bourbon Chocolate Milkshakes

So this is a secret baby book. I hate secret baby books. HATE. I hate them so much that my review policies caution people against sending them to me. Except…I loved this secret baby book. Into the Shadows, the third book in Carolyn Crane’s Undercover Associates series, features undercover Associate Thorne, who isn’t really an

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AAR Guest Post + Next #DCRom Gathering + Sweet Disorder Pound Cake

Just popping in today to say that my monthly joint review with Alexis Hall is up at All About Romance today. We rave over Rose Lerner’s Sweet Disorder and, as I mentioned in our review, I just couldn’t get over how much amazing food is in it. I’ve already used it as inspiration for three

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The Bride and The Beast Candied Bacon Salted Oatmeal Cookies

Gwendolyn Wilder loved Bernard MacCullough from afar as a girl. But when the English raid his father’s Castle for harboring the Scottish pretender, the young would-be laird is killed. Or so she thought. And when a dragon comes to claim the ruined castle, the villagers send the only virgin left in Ballybliss to slake The

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For My Lady’s Heart Blood Orange Olive Oil Cake

Laura Kinsale never disappoints me. In For My Lady’s Heart, she has written a masterpiece, not just of romance, but of universal literary merit. It’s one of the most subversive works of literature I’ve read. Well, listened to actually. My husband and I got the audio book and played it in the car on road

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Christmas in the Duke’s Arms Chocolate Cookie Mix

When I picked up Christmas in The Duke’s Arms, I went into it with trepidation. I expected…well…Dukes. And while I don’t have a problem with Dukes per se, I do have a problem with the sameness of Dukes: powerful guy, lots of wealth and responsibility, inevitably rakish, rarely seen doing any government work or estate

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A Matter of Disagreement Lavender Earl Grey Tea Cookies

Back in October during Queer Romance Month, I picked up A Matter of Disagreement by E.E. Ottoman. The premise of the book grabbed me right away: two steampunk scientists have an academic difference of opinion regarding the future of their chosen field of mechanical animation. As plots go, it’s a fresh one, and the conflict

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Gossamer Wing Fruit-Bedecked Meringue

Steampunk romance is tricky. I generally want to like it more than I actually do. From a genre romance perspective, it seems like it would be a powerful combination to add a fantasy or science fiction element to alternative history: all the atmosphere of a historical with none of the rigidly defined social conventions or

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