JB Richards

Sometimes Love Is A Poisonous Affair! When social classes collide in Victorian Scotland, keeping two young lovers apart, a young woman’s search for love becomes a poisonous affair in Kathryn McMaster’s “Blackmail, Sex & Lies: A Victorian True Crime Murder Mystery”. But this is no standard Victorian romance—McMaster’s true-life tale of love claimed and lost steers her protagonists into disaster several times as they tear each other’s lives apart in their obsessive drive to be

A 5 Star Novel All The Way Through! “Lucia’s Lament” is an absorbing Historical Fiction/Romance based the real-life love letters that were exchanged between Lucia Rix—an actual British nurse volunteer who worked in a field-hospital under the direct supervision of one of the most famous people of the Victorian era, Florence Nightingale—and a severely injured, stubborn, and particularly bad-tempered Scottish Sergeant, Ronald Ferguson, during the Crimean War (circa 1850’s). Emil

Past, Present, And Future! “Hooks & Eyes” is a period piece that true romance lovers will completely enjoy, filled with characters whose larger-than-life personalities range from the wicked and the scheming, to the lovelorn and sublime. From the callous and domineering Mister Wetherby, to the cool and calculated Sally Anne, McBeath arranges a chessboard of characters who each have hidden agendas and aspirations that will impact the future of everyone around them, including th

Beguiling—and at the same time terrifying—“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” is a riveting masterpiece that will stand the test of time! Don’t get me wrong, but I’m usually not one for period romances, having had my fill of Jane Austin, the Bronte sisters, and Charles Dickens when I studied Classical English Literature with Sister Renee in college. Having made this one point perfectly clear, I must now do an about face and reverse my opinion in regard this genre, all because of Autho