Rachel Stone’s car breaks down on the edges of Salvation, North Carolina, the one place on the planet where the most people hate her. Rachel’s former husband, the Reverend Snopes was a hugely popular tele-evangelist who conned people all over the country out of their life savings, making Rachel his scape goat when he got caught. He died in a plane crash fleeing the country, but Rachel knows there are five million still left unaccounted for, and as she currently has about eleven dollars to […]
Prof. Jane Darlington might have a genius level IQ, but she goes about getting a baby in a truly dumb way
Professor Jane Darlington has a genius level IQ, is a master physicist and desperately wants a baby. However, Jane’s super smarts made her feel like a freak growing up, and she doesn’t want any child of hers to experience the same thing. Plus she’s currently single, and not really looking for a relationship. She does need to find herself a baby daddy, though, and preferably one who’s a bit stupid, in the hopes that this will produce her a child with a thoroughly average intelligence. […]
A retired football player and a bossy virgin find love in Texas
The ridiculously named Bobby Tom Denton was Chicago Stars’ famous quarterback until he sustained a career ending knee injury. Now he’s unsure of what he’s going to do with his life, and deeply frustrated about it. When the tenacious and bossy Gracie Snow turns up on his doorstep and announces she’s going to escort him to his hometown Telarosa (formerly Heaven) in Texas to start shooting the action movie he agreed to star in. Gracie’s spent most of her life living a sheltered existence, working […]
A jock and a bimbo meet at a funeral. Later they fall in love
Phoebe Sommerville is a bundle of daddy issues and sexual hangups, masquerading as a drop-dead gorgeous blonde bombshell. Clever, sensitive and oh so very vulnerable, Phoebe learned long ago that the best way to keep men at a distance and getting her own way is by pretending to be a sexy airhead. Estranged from her horrible father since she was 18, having done as much as she could to shock him, Phoebe is shocked to realise that even after his death, he is trying to […]
More Contemporary Romance, But with One and a Quarter Tirades
All of the books in the Chicago Stars contemporary romance series are built around the world of professional athletes and the women who want to climb them like trees. It’s a rarefied wealthy bubble that allows for the same kind of lifestyle fantasy as the aristocratic and wealthy world of historical romance. Almost every story also features an older couple getting a second chance at love. It Had to Be You Heaven, Texas Nobody’s Baby But Mine Dream a Little Dream This Heart of Mine […]
A Contemporary Romance, But with “You Look Like an Ad for Gay Porn”
Natural Born Charmer is a contemporary romance of the “you are everything I never knew I always wanted” variety with subplots of familial healing thrown in. Given the number of people with fractured or messed up families, I’m not surprised to see this element featured in several of the contemporary romances I’ve read. In addition to the main couple, there is a subplot featuring the hero’s parents who are also messed up and trying to find their way to stability. Natural Born Charmer has the […]