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A #review of Across the Ages, Book One, by Rashelle Workman

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Pages -  300  Publisher -  Polished Pen Press; 5 edition  Published -  December 21, 2014 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Time Travel Romance Series -  Across the Ages Book 1 of 2 Language -  1/5 Sexual Content -  2/5 Narrative -  1st P Ghosts are real. So is time travel. Eighteen-year-old Lucy Channing discovers this reality after her dead grandmother gives her a beautiful locket. As soon as her fingers brush the cold copper, Lucy is swept out of the nineteenth century and into the twenty-first. The first person she encounters is twenty-year-old William Godwin. He’s arrogant, exciting, and oh so handsome. After meeting, he agrees to help Lucy find her way home. Or into the nearest mental institution. She knows he must think her daft. But what the two uncover reveals more than ghosts and time travel. There are gods fighting to keep them apart. Disaster is around every corner....

A Touch of Midnight by Lara Adrian #Review

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Pages -  184  Publisher -  Lara Adrian, LLC Published -  3 edition (December 14, 2013) Sold by -   Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Romance, Paranormal, Vampires Series -  Midnight Breed Series Sexual Content -  4/5 Language -  4/5 Narrative -  3rd P Since the slayings of his young brothers by Rogue vampires in London centuries ago, Breed warrior Gideon has pledged his life and his sword to the mission of destroying those of his kind lost to Blood lust. But that vow is tested when he meets Savannah Dupree, a beautiful college student who finds herself in the crossfire of Gideon's war with a hidden, deadly enemy.  IF I am to understand this correctly, A Touch of Midnight , billed as a prequel novella to the entire series, is actually an afterthought of the author's when so many of her fans begged for the background story on Gideon and Savannah. So, if you read all of the other wor...

The Mannequin: A Victorian Romance by Suzanne G. Rogers #Review

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Pages -  226  Publisher -  Idunn Court Publishing Published -  September 3, 2015 Sold by -   Amazon Digital Genre -  Teen & YA, Historical  Romance, Victorian Narrative -  3rd P Interchangeable Language -  0/5 Sexual Content -  0/5 When she was a poor country girl in a hand-me-down dress, Rosamund saved the Duke of Swanhaven from the brink of despair…only to fall in love with him. Now a celebrated mannequin for an exclusive London dressmaker, her glamorous life is empty without the man to whom she gave her heart. Can a beastly duke and a beautiful mannequin ever find a fairy-tale ending? I liked it. And, it was a Fairy Tale rewrite! And, it is flawed. Still, I thought the author's style was pleasant, which made for an easy and somewhat enjoyable read and why I gave it a bit higher rating for this review. Hardly anything in the way of GPS issues, although there were two I wi...