The allure of Judy Burr’s Lion Song is that it seems to be marketed as romance fiction, but it is actually based on the author’s real-life experience and is a memoir of sorts. It is also in the way that her brush with the Feds...

I picked Love: A Story by Bill Smoot because in the description it is likened to the works of Milan Kundera. If anyone has ever read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, then they will adore this story. Michael, a prep school teacher, met his wife,...

Love is What You Bake of It by Effie Kammenou is a contemporary romance novel. It focused on Kallyope, a Greek pastry chef from a big family. Kally wasn’t popular with guys in her high school days, so she always looked down on herself in...

Love, Amour, Amore by Kaya Quinsey is a collection of three love stories with different themes. Story one: Valentine was on a trip to Venice where she met charming Lorenzo. They lost contact and met again ten years later. Will they rekindle their flame or...

Let Love Rule is the third book in the Where You'll Land contemporary romance series by award-winning author Jacqueline Simon Gunn, a story that reads well as a standalone novel. The genuinely flawed characters instantly won my sympathy and I became interested in seeing what...

Love Ordained by Tara Taffera is a soul-stirring Christian contemporary romance novel about grief, healing, and forgiveness. Gina’s world comes crashing down when her beloved husband and daughter are involved in a fatal accident. In a tragic twist of fate, she loses the people closest...

Love is a Filing Cabinet by Jeanne Kern is a beautiful contemporary romance novel for young adults. It follows the life of Minnesota Evans and her travails. Born to hippie parents and with a deliberately obtuse sister to boot, she couldn't wait to get away...

In Last Temptation, Sloane Virago challenges us with character evaluation. Each character is a troubling mixture of good and bad. With one exception they are twenty-somethings making their separate ways through finding careers and love. Each inspires and disappoints. Jacob, at first the seeming protagonist,...

Let It Be Me by Laura Chapman is a funny, quirky romance that works. James Mitchell fell in love with a fellow student in the history department at his English university. So smitten was he that he followed Becca back to small-town Lincoln, Nebraska where...

Sandi Cramer loved to cook, and she ran her show on her uncle’s TV station, KANT. All went well until her uncle went bankrupt and had to sell the station. The new management kept her on because her show had high ratings. Then things started...