Aug
30
Blurb: 1888, Whitechapel. Jack the Ripper terrorizes prostitutes and baffles Scotland Yard; 1888, London. Annie Oakley thrills audiences of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show with her expert marksmanship. The Ripper may have picked the wrong target in this fascinating retelling of the well-known case of Jack the Ripper… with a Western twist! A mentally unbalanced [...]
Tags: 2010, historical, read 'n' review challenge
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Aug
27
Blurb: Squire William Raven has only one goal-to finally receive his spurs and become a knight. When his lord, Sir Robert de Cantilou, returns from a five-year crusade in the Holy Land, William wants nothing more than to impress him. After Sir Robert’s return, noble guests arrive from France, bringing intrigue to the castle. William [...]
Tags: 2010, gay, historical, m-m romance challenge, read 'n' review challenge
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Aug
20
Blurb: Addicted to the soaring skies, brash high-flier Arthur Edward “Jack” Ratigan returns to Britain to fly bombers when his birth country goes to war against Germany in World War II. It also means a return to his ancestral home of Pren Redyn House in Wales—and risking his career and freedom if it comes to [...]
Tags: 2010, dreamspinner, gay, historical, m-m romance challenge, read 'n' review challenge
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Aug
10
Blurb: Highborn Anna Arrington has been "following the drum," obeying the wishes of her cold, controlling cavalry officer husband. When he dies, all she wants is to leave life with Wellington’s army in Spain behind her and go home to her family’s castle in Scotland. Sergeant Will Atkins ran away from home to join the [...]
Tags: 2010, historical, read 'n' review challenge
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Jun
27
Blurb: He is called the "Duke of Sin" … a notorious rogue and recluse whose reputation is as black as the Cornish night. They speak of his conquests, his past, and his mysteries in breathless whispers. And now lovely and desperate Vivian Rael-Lamont has no choice but to enter William Raleigh’s lair. Vivian prayed that [...]
Tags: 2010, historical, read 'n' review challenge
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Jun
11
Blurb: In 1849, a celebrated French beauty-and British spy-risks her life to expose smugglers with the help of a dashing Englishman. But it’s her heart that’s in danger when the local gentry spread gossip of their illicit partnership. Because beneath the veil of secrecy lies a very true passion. My thoughts: This book seems to [...]
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Apr
09
Blurb: A lad from the streets meets a lord of the manor… When war veteran Sir Alan Watleigh goes searching for sex, he never imagines the street rat he brings home for one last bit of pleasure in his darkest hour will be the man who hauls him back from the edge of the grave. [...]
Tags: 2010, gay, historical, Loose ID, m-m romance challenge, read 'n' review challenge
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Apr
05
Blurb: When Julian is forced to turn to crime after he loses his inheritance, he decides that he can do better than the incompetent highwayman who tries to waylay him one dark night. That’s how the High-Class Highwayman comes into his own, and he does very well for himself, at least until Griffen Michalis comes [...]
Tags: 2010, BDSM, gay, historical, m-m romance challenge, read 'n' review challenge, Torquere
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Jan
10
Blurb: When Corvinus receives a letter, with a tantalising PS, from his adopted daughter, Marilla, mentioning there might have been a murder, he hot-foots it to Castrimoenium at once. Not that everyone agrees that Lucius Hostilius was murdered. Poison was apparently the means of death, but Lucius was terminally ill: it was only a matter [...]
Tags: 2010, historical, read 'n' review challenge
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Jun
18
A rather short historical. However, I thought the time in between Duncan’s leaving and Sir William finding him was way too rushed. Duncan left furtively and disappeared. The next scene is set a few weeks later and Sir William turns up to look for Duncan at the place Duncan is working at. Even though I’m [...]
Tags: 2009, Amber Allure, gay, historical
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