My Most Recent Blog Posts

In Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr, Leslie has a horribly dysfunctional family--an alcoholic gambler for a father, a drug abuser for a brother who sells her to his drugged-up friends, and a runaway mom. She’s desperate to have normalcy in her life and drawn to a shop to get a tattoo. Not any tattoo, but one that will bind her to the Dark King of the fey.

Review for How to Engage an Earl

http://www.writersarereaders.com/spearcaskiehowtoengageanearl.html

My Review of Where the Heart Leads

http://www.writersarereaders.com/spearlaurenswheretheheartleads.html

Review for Bride for a Knight by Sue-Ellen Welfonder

http://www.writersarereaders.com/spearwelfonderbrideforaknight.html

The story opens with Susanna Dallet confessing it was her fate and her sins that caused her to fall into the world of the French court in 1514, all because she was trained to paint by her Flemish father, and was married to a painter, who wished to learn her father's secrets.

This is the story of Portugal’s Princess Catherine, her marriage to King Charles of England, and all the courtly intrigue, treachery, plotting, womanizing that that entailed.

Francesca Visser is the daughter of a Dutch painter, talented in painting as well. When her mother dies, she takes over the role of administering the family’s money, which is no easy task as her father is a habitual gambler.