A Good Book and Cup of Tea

My Dear Miss Dupre by Grace Hitchcock is the first book in her American Royalty series. Willow Dupre has six months to choose a husband from the thirty suitors competing for her hand. Can she find true love and someone to help run her father’s sugar refinery within that time frame? If not, her cousin will sell his shares to the competition. This story started out with so much potential. Willow wanted what was best for the family business and was willing to go along with her p

The Indebted Earl by Erica Vetsch is the third book in her Serendipity & Secrets series. Captain Charles Wyvern owes a huge debt to his best friend, Major Richardson, who sacrificed his life to save the captain. The Major’s dying wish was for Charles to look after his fiancé, Sophie. The guilt that Charles felt for surviving the war when Richardson didn’t is not an uncommon occurrence. When he meets Sophie that guilt is intensified. Sophie works through her grief at losing he

Unknown Threat by Lynn H. Blackburn is the first book in her Defend and Protect series. Someone has it in for the Secret Service Agents in Raleigh, North Carolina. Agents are dying in unusual circumstances. FBI Special Agent Faith Malone is brought in to solve the case. She teams up with US Secret Service Special Agent Luke Powell and a few of his fellow agents. But everybody seems to be in danger from the unknown assailant. From the first page to the last it felt like I was

Hour to Kill by Susan Sleeman is the third book in her Homeland Heroes series. FBI Special Agent Addison Leigh is on the brink of cracking a firearms-smuggling ring when she is attacked and left with no memory of the accident or her case. Because of his past military trauma, U.S. Marshal Mack Jordan ended his marriage to Addison as a way to protect her. Now he has vowed to bring to justice the man responsible for her accident. Mack and Addy had a lot of issues to work through

When Twilight Breaks by Sarah Sundin is a stand-alone pre-World War 2 novel. Evelyn Brand, an American foreign correspondent, and Peter Lang, an American graduate student working on his PhD, meet in Munich in 1938. Evelyn sees thru the Nazi propaganda but she has to be very careful of what she writes or risk being expelled from the country. Peter is impressed with the order in Germany. When Peter finally sees things as they are, he and Evelyn team up, but with danger around e

Framed in Death Valley by Dana Mentink is the first book in her Desert Justice series. Beckett Duke was framed for murder. Knowing that the real killer is still at large, he vows to protect his wife even though he could be the next victim. The suspense in this story was intense. Beckett and Laney both had to make some hard choices and face the consequences of previous mistakes. And as we all know that can be very hard. Sometimes forgiving your self is the hardest of all. Ms.