Nora Roberts, Author, Jill Gregory, Author, Marianne Willman, Author Jove $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-515-13386-8
The four stories in Once Upon a Kiss, the newest volume in the Once Upon... series (Once Upon a Rose, etc.), contain elements of the fantastic, but only Nora Roberts and Jill Gregory succeed in making the unbelievable believable. Fate pairs a...
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Nora Roberts, Author, Jill Gregory, Author, Ruth Ryan Langan, Author . Jove $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-515-13166-6
An addition to the "Once Upon..." series (Once Upon a Dream, etc.), this anthology of magical stories is anchored once again by the prolific Roberts. All four entries have the vaguely mystical feel of the fairy tale and the connecting...
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Nora Roberts, Author, Jill Gregory, Author, Ruth Ryan Langan, Author . Jove $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-515-13619-7
Midnight plays but a token role in this latest Once Upon a... anthology (after Once Upon a Kiss), with the exception of the solid offering from Roberts, who easily outclasses her companions. Roberts's "The Witching Hour" is a fantastical
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Nora Roberts, Author, Jill Gregory, Author, Ruth Ryan Langan, Author . Jove $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-515-13831-3
Loosely connected by their incorporation of the paranormal, this quartet of novellas takes readers, with varying degrees of success, from contemporary Maine to the fantastical land of Callemore, the Scottish Highlands and the 19th-century Cornish...
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Jill Gregory, Author . Dell $6.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-440-23549-1
The second in a trilogy about the Barclay brothers, Gregory's latest Western-set romance (after Rough Wrangler, Tender Kisses) breathes a fuller life into the sub-genre. Seven years ago, Sheriff Clint Barclay put the Spoon Gang, notorious for...
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Jill Gregory, Author . Dell $6.50 (356p) ISBN 978-0-440-23732-7
A clutter of inessential characters bogs down the first few chapters of historical romance author Gregory's debut contemporary mystery, but once the action revs up, readers will gladly sit back and enjoy the journey. When Katy Templeton returns...
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Jill Gregory, Author . Dell $6.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-440-23735-8
A typical suspense scenario receives a fresh spin in Gregory's newest contemporary romantic intrigue (after Thunder Creek
), which gallops out of the starting gate when up-and-coming New York fashion designer Josy Warner gets a frantic call from
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Jill Gregory, Author Dell Publishing Company $5.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-440-20620-0
In spring 1873 Juliana Montgomery, with her aunt and uncle, visits wealthy Denver rancher John Breen, little suspecting she is walking into a ``giant trap'': she has been promised as a wife to Breen, who will further her uncle's business interests....
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Jill Gregory, Author Dell Publishing Company $5.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-440-22183-8
Set in 19th-century Wyoming, Gregory's implausible tale concerns Melora Deane, kidnapped by a man going under the name of her betrothed. Former friend Rafe Campbell framed Wyatt Holden (""Cal"") and then stole both his ranch and his name. Now he's...
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Jill Gregory, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-22440-2
When a one-night stand with Quinn Lassiter leaves Maura Jane Reed pregnant--and desperate to leave the ramshackle hotel owned by her adoptive brothers, the Duncans--she flees to a frontier town in pursuit of the mysterious gunslinger who has...
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Jill Gregory, Author Jove Books $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-515-09392-6
This historical novel spans the last 30 years of the 19th century. Boone Walker, son of a poor Kentucky farmer, moves to Pittsburgh, where he begins to make a fortune in steel. At the same time that Boone rises in the world, Elly Forest escapes the...
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Jill Gregory, Author Jove Books $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-515-08585-3
It is 1806, and Anemone Carstairs, disguised as a lady's maid, is spying on Napoleon for the British government. Trained by her father, the redoubtable spy Thomas Carstairs, Anemone is resourceful, cool-headed, and detacheduntil she meets Stephen...
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Jill Gregory. Berkley Sensation, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-25089-1
Stock characters, clichéd plot points, and a secondary story ripped from the headlines do not serve Gregory well in her second Lonesome Way romance (after Sage Creek). Tired of red tape, former FBI agent Travis Tanner returns to his small Montana...
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Jill Gregory, Author, Karen Tintori, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $19.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-36632-2
Even readers not yet sated with apocalyptic thrillers may be disappointed by Gregory and Tintori's first collaborative novel, which attempts to use the Jewish tradition of the Lamed-Vovniks, the 36 pure souls whose existence protects all of...
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Karen Tintori, Author, Jill Gregory, Author . St. Martin’s $24.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-312-37597-3
Gregory and Tintori follow their first thriller, The Book of Names
(2007), with another average Da Vinci Code
knockoff. In the near future, MSNBC reporter Dana Landau is murdered in Iraq after the chance purchase of the Eye of Dawn, an amulet...
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