I got back into the traditional regencies with 3 Elizabeth Rolls book reading one right after the other. THE UNEXPECTED BRIDE - B+, THE UNRULY CHAPERON - B, and THE DUTIFUL RAKE - C+.
I like her writing style, her heroes are rakes and a bit of a womanizer. They want the traditional English marriage of convenience but find themselves very much in love with their heroines...of course, they fight the love on every page. :)

Then I am still reading the time travels...the past few days have found me reading:
ONCE IN EVERY LIFE by Kristin Hannah B-
2/1993 Rom/TT/R-Frontier


At the beginning of the book Jack is thinking of committing suicide. A bit selfish since he had 2 little girls and a new baby on the way. His wife is a bitch....made her 12 y.o. daughter do all the cooking, cleaning, taking care of her younger sister Katy.

The girls are adorable, starved for love. Jack has built a wall around himself that the girls can't climb and most of the book he fights when they or Tess / Lissa reaches out to him.

He has blackouts and panic attacks because of the Civil War......he is afraid he will hurt his family. His wife makes him sleep on the couch or in the barn, again she was a bitch!

Lissa made the girls laugh, she even has Jack grinning now and then against his will. She had never cooked or cleaned but she tries with some funny results. Savannah does most of the cooking but Lissa learning as they go.

They love to play games and have fun...Katy and Savannah open up to Lissa like baby birds starving. Lissa teaches them to paint....throw freebies, and make daisy chains.

TIME AFTER TIME by Constance O'Day-Flannery B
3/2001 Rom/TT-Victorian


Kelly and Daniel both looked like each other's deceased spouse. It was just to comfortable and easy for each to fall in love with each other.

Kelly was married to Michael for only a year before she sent him to the store for pantyhose and he walked into a robbery and is killed.
Daniel's wife was English, he brought her to New Orleans even though she was weak, frail, and pregnant with his child. She dies of yellow fever when their daughter is a month old.

The daughter, Lizzie is 12 y.o. now, Daniel has allow his housekeeper to raise her with some disasters results. She runs wild in the Louisiana swamps and speaks like a backwoods man.

Good read but no heavy emotions.

YESTERDAY AND FOREVER by Vickie Presley C+
3/1999 Rom/TT-Frontier


At some spots the heroine, Bailey irritated me to death...it was her way or no way...she got the hero, Zach and herself in trouble because she thought she knew better then him. The three younger sister, reminded me of little sisters in THE BAD LUCK WEDDING DRESS by Geralyn Dawson just all grown up.

A TASTE OF HEAVEN by Barbara Benedict C -
9/1993 Rom/TT-Old South

A TASTE OF HEAVEN is really weird with Voodoo and a soul stealer.....I liked the book until it started the soul snatching.

Judith is raising her niece to steal her body and then give her soul to this snake but something went wrong and the heroine, Monica (the niece) switched body's with her evil aunt Monique in the past. Very confusing!! Monique and Judith are the same person but one lives in the present the other in the past.

Monica wakes up to a husband, Drew that hates her and 3 children that are terrified of her. She has to win their trust and respect...the little girl looks into Monica's eyes and knows almost from the beginning her mother is gone but a wonderful new mommy lives in her body.
There was just to much time traveling, Voodoo, and evil for me in this story. And after what the evil wife, Monique did to the Drew, I was so surprised he could even think of trusting the Monica in her body.