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Tender Is The Knight
Assembly-line forewoman and Dayton, Ohio resident Lisa Marie Smith’s life just got a lot more medieval. Lisa’s co-worker and best friend, Pegeen Palmer forcibly drags her to an event showcasing Pegeen’s latest hobby---the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), a living history organization that specializes in the Middle Ages. SCA members get their weekend kicks dressing up in medieval “garb” and pretending to be knights and ladies.
Lisa is skeptical at first, but pretty soon she falls for Sir Phillip Reginald of Whitestar, a swashbuckling SCA Knight and top favorite to become the SCA’s most important new King. It’s soon clear that this dazzlingly handsome, super-sexy knight has a dark and mysterious past, and it’s all Lisa can do just to keep her head above water as she gets caught up in the strange, intrigue-ridden world of SCA kingdom power politics. Will shy, emotionally fragile Lisa manage to juggle her day job, her eccentric best friend, and a passionate new relationship with her mysterious knight without coming apart?
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This book is a fictional story set against the real-life setting of the Society for Creative Anachronism (www.sca.org) a historical reinactment group that specializes in the Middle Ages.
Reviewer: CYD
Review: Jan 18, 2011
Genre(s): Historical Romance, Time-Travel
This book plunges Lisa, the main character and the reader into the SCA – The society for Creative Anachronism. Before I read this book I had an idea that the society might be fun for people who like history, like to dress up in medival style clothing, sword fight and use historically incorrect versions of Ye Olde English. This book should have been titled, ‘All you ever wanted to know about the
The Mercenary Bride
It’s the year 1101, and England is still reeling from the Norman conquest a generation earlier. Lady Sabina of Angwyld is the eldest daughter of the Duke of Angwyld, a Saxon nobleman with estates near the Welsh border. The Norman invaders want to take the Duke’s land and title by force, and the only hope the he has for saving Angwyld is to marry his eldest daughter off to a ruthless, evil Norman nobleman, Lord Reginald de Guillaume. Sabina will have none of it, however. She thinks her only alternative is to take the veil and enter a convent. So she runs away.
Sabina is fleeing Angwyld on horseback on her way to the Abbey at Glastonbury when she meets Robert de Tyre, a swashbuckling Norman mercenary who serves as a cavalry officer in Lord Reginald’s army. Though Robert de Tyre has been sent by Lord Reginald to capture his intended bride and bring her back in time for her forced marriage, the sparks soon fly between them, and their worlds are turned upside down. Will Sabina overcome her hatred for all things Norman as her romantic feelings for Robert grow? And can Robert protect Sabina from the pursuing armies of his ruthless, jealous employer and make her his own? Only time will tell...
Rating: Sweet - Non-Erotic
I've Been A Naughty Nurse
Joanna Watson, a recently divorced top surgical nurse in picturesque Statesville, North Carolina, is frustrated with her stalled career and dead-in-the-water sex life when she suddenly finds herself trapped in an elevator with an unknown, abrasive Yankee surgeon, Dr, Harlan Wilkinson. The elevator gets stuck, the lights go out, and spontaneous, hot-n-heavy sex commences. Joanna is mortified at her own behavior---and yet she thirsts for more. Meanwhile, Joanna’s colleague Shirley Daniels---an overworked, underpaid nurse-anesthetist who’s neglected her personal life for years because she’s been busy caring for her dying parents----finds her own hidden sensual side awakened by Dr. Harlan Wilkinson, too. And these two romantic rivals are sure to get into some sticky situations before all is said and done.Vital Signs is a sexed-up, small-town version of Grey’s Anatomy---a busy, high-pressure hospital environment that is a perfect breeding ground for hot sex and hotter sexual tension.
Reviewer: Bookgrrl1976
Review: Aug 9, 2010
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary
JoAnna Watson, surgical nurse beyond pale, is tired, frustrated and needs a break. Literally. After working several double shifts back to back with no time off, she's exhausted. She is told that she has to work yet another double when she tells her boss that she needs at least an hour of personal time to relax. On the way down to the cafeteria, she meets Dr. Harlan Wilkinson- the new surgeon at the hospital.
Knight Moves
Louise Jackson - ---a sexually frustrated, thirty-year-old toll collection supervisor for the New Jersey Turnpike - is bored out of her gourd at Medieval Worlds: Dinner and Tournament when she heads for the ladies' room. She soon encounters a gorgeous mystery knight in a bathroom stall that is actually a portal to another time and place - a castle in twelfth-century Europe, which is the knight's home. Louise is ecstatic - she believes she has found the incredible knight-in-shining-armor of her wildest fantasies. But the mystery knight is actually Lord Verdigris, who has kidnapped her from the 21st century so she can become a sex slave in his Hall of Harlots, where she will grant sexual favors to Lord Verdigris and the knights of his garrison for all eternity!
Determined to make the best of a bad situation, Louise settles into her new role as Lady Louisa of the Crossroads - by far the most popular and desirable of all the courtesans in Lord Verdigris's Hall of Harlots. Will she find a path back to her own century before the ruthless Lord Verdigris finds out and imprisons her forever? And will she find true love along the way?
Reviewer: Danya
Review: May 2, 2009
Genre(s): Sci-Fi / Fantasy Romance, Time-Travel
Louise Jackson, toll booth collector from New Jersey, had no idea that celebrating her birthday at a medieval joust reenactment would result in not only mind-blowing sex with Lord Verdigris, the Green Knight of Bellwether Castle, but also in her becoming the latest addition to his Hall of Harlots. Rather than fall apart, Louise becomes Lady Louisa of the Crossroads, Mistress of Domination and quickly becomes
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