**** Wonderful!

This story takes place in 1913 London where Seamus returned after a trip to Antartida ,and  India, where Willa is.  

In London Willa's family is in the middle of the struggle for women's suffrage.    In India: was Willa, with her pains and her memories.  For neither willa, nor Seamus would ever forget what had happended in Africa.  They had been climbing the Kilimanjaro when a boulder hit Willa and she fell.  Seami carried her to the base, but when he reached the villa, one of her legs had to be amputated.  And she never forgave Seamus Finnegan for that loss.  Eight years after that, she is climbing mountains and she has a wide knowledge of the Himalayas, she has surveyed, mapped and photographed more than any westerner had ever done.  She is still in love with Seamus but will they be reunited again?

GENTLEMEN PREFER NERDS, by Joan Kilby

**** Nice easy read


Maddie maloney is a gemolotist and a nerd who discovered a pink diamond worth twenty millon dollars, but when she was curved over her microscope, a  stranger came into the jewelery shop and warned her about a jewel thief called Chameleon. The stranger's name is Fabian Montgomery and they are going to have quite an adventure together, trying to catch the chameleon while escaping from the police.

GRAVE MERCY, by Robin LaFevers

**** Loved it!

Lots of intrigues, spies, deception and also love.

This story takes place in the beautiful Brittany of 1485 when the Duchy of Brittany still remained independent from France. Although the characters  travel  through " la Bretagne", there are little or no descriptions of the cities they visit, such as Guerande, Nantes, Rennes, Quimper, Amboise, fougeres, Brest, Guingamp, St. Malo...   A pity.

Grave Mercy is written in the first person of  Ismae Rienne who was raised as  the daughter of a turnip's farmer but was in fact the daughter of Mortain, the god of death. She was brutally beaten by her father until he sold her to Guillo as his wife, but he was no better.  She was saved by a herbewitch who took her to the Convent of Saint Mortain.  By the way they had to take a boat to reach the Convent, I imagine it was Mont St. Michel. A convent in a small island, very near the beach which is now a tourist place and a convent.

Ismae is fourteen years old when she learns to serve Mortain in any way he asks her. She is not only very clever but also an excellent assasin.  She despises  all men, for how they had treated her all her life, but then  she meets Duval...

MIDNIGHT REMEDY, by Eve Gaddy

****  I loved it!


Dr. Eric Chambers came to ask Piper about her maggic potion she gave Randy  Johnson. He wanted to know what was in the herbal tea and also to tell Ms. Piper Stevenson to keep her herb-picking hands off his patients. But he was totally distracted by her when he saw her. 


Piper was duped once, seven years ago, when she met her sons father, who was married with three kids!  She is not going to fall for Eric's charms... Or is she?

A DIXIE CHRISTMAS, by Sandra Hill

***


The first story: Clayton Jessup III is the new owner of The Blue Suede Suites and the vacant lot where  the Fallons had set up their Nativity scene. Annie Fallon and her family where all dressed up as characters of a fifties movie retrospective.  Still, a strange heat pulsed through Clayton's body as he gazed at her.  And just as he was about to kicking them off his property, he fell broke his ankle and bumped his head. And Annie took him to her farm and took good care of him....


The second story: Lance Caslow, her exhusband and NASCAR superheroe was once more trying to convince her to forgive him.  He probably thought she would take one look at him and melt, and she did, but she didn't forgive him.  So he decided to take drastic measures...

A KISS IN THE WIND, by Jennifer Bray-Weber

**** total adventure!


This story takes place at sea and in Puerto Plata, Hispaniola island in 1726.  It's a pirate adventure with lots of fights and shipwrecking.


Marisol Castellan is the daughter of a french pirate who has been on board for two years already and has learned nearly everything.  She is searching one of her brothers, to do so, she intercepts a courrier.  To escape spanish soldiers she ends in a public house where she meets Blade.


Captain Blade Tyburn is a libertine wknow to seduce woemn all over the Caribbean with his charm. He loves women and he treat them well. (may be too well) .


They are wildly attracted to each other...

FORBIDDEN FANTASIES, by Jodie Griffin

**** I enjoyed this short story!


Jessica Meyers has been married to  her handsome husband for fifteen years.  They have two children of seven and five years old and their sex life is a bore.  But then Jessica bought some bdsm books and she started yearning for more.


Alex Meyers is a state trooper and is a master uncovering the truth but cannot understand what is happening to their marriage. So when his wife tells him, he prepares a special weekend in a b&b (bondage and breakfast)


This story is nice, is a bdsm, but is not kinky.  I enjoyed it.