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Lisa Kleypas Week – Interview and Giveaway

By On September 25, 2008 · 72 Comments · In Chat With an Author, Giveaways, Lisa Kleypas week

Lisa Kleypas is one of the Heavy Hitters of the historical romance genre, with several international bestsellers, and awards to her name. With her new work in contemporaries, it looks like she will be dominating that genre as well!

When we learned of Lisa’s two upcoming new releases, Seduce Me At [...]

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Lisa Kleypas Week – Joint Review: A Wallflower Christmas

By On September 25, 2008 · 23 Comments · In 6 Rated Books, 9 Rated Books, Joint Review, Lisa Kleypas week

Title: A Wallflower Christmas

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Historical Romance

Stand Alone/ Series: In the world of the Wallflower’s series but can be read as a stand alone

Summary: Wealthy entrepreneur Rafe Bowman has come to London to marry Lady Natalie, an aristocratic bride who will help to further his ambitions. But [...]

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Lisa Kleypas Week – The Wallflowers

By On September 24, 2008 · 19 Comments · In Lisa Kleypas week

In 2005, Lisa Kleypas started a new historical romance series. Four very different women find that they are routinely ignored and shunned by London society for various reasons. Annabelle is beautiful, yet destitute; Lillian and her sister Daisy are brash and American without a drop of blue blood for all their wealth; and Evangeline, while [...]

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Lisa Kleypas Week – Book Review: Seduce me at Sunrise

By On September 23, 2008 · 35 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Lisa Kleypas week

Title: Seduce me at Sunrise

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Historical Romance

Stand Alone/ Series: The second in The Hathaways series

Summary: Win has been an invalid ever since she suffered a near-fatal case of scarlet fever. Merripen is a Romany Gypsy who was taken in by the Hathaway family when he was [...]

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Lisa Kleypas Week – Book Review: Blue-Eyed Devil

By On September 23, 2008 · 18 Comments · In 10 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Lisa Kleypas week

Title: Blue-Eyed Devil

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Romance (contemporary), Fiction

Stand alone or series: Second book in the Travis’ series by Kleypas

Summary: “Blue-Eyed Devil” is the story of the charming, volatile and ambitious Hardy Cates, who is determined to carry out his private revenge against the Travis family. Haven is the [...]

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Lisa Kleypas Week – Guest Dare: Sugar Daddy

By On September 22, 2008 · 26 Comments · In Lisa Kleypas week, The Dare

Another month, another dare! Every month we dare a guest (usually another blogger) to read a book that is outside their comfort zone, chosen by us. When we asked CJ from the amazing The Thrillionth Page blog, which genres she is not used to read and she said “Contemporary” novels, our first thought went [...]

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Exclusive Book Smugglers Sneak Peek: Smooth Talking Stranger

By On September 22, 2008 · 17 Comments · In Lisa Kleypas week

We sneaky Smugglers have just received from Lisa Kleypas the new American cover for her upcoming contemporary romance: Smooth Talking Stranger!

Here’s the UK version, posted earlier this week:

As you can see, there are some noted differences between the two covers. Any thoughts or preferences?

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Lisa Kleypas Week!

By On September 21, 2008 · 14 Comments · In Lisa Kleypas week

We will start this post by saying: Lisa Kleypas is one of the best romance novels writers out there and one of our favourites. Her stories are well-written and well-researched but above all, her stories have heart. It is hard to find a romance reader who does not include at least one Lisa Kleypas’ book [...]

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