Diary of a Middle-Aged Romantic

Seducing a Stranger (Goode Girls Book 1)* Kerrigan Byrne   Stars:  Definitely ⭐⭐⭐ ⭐⭐ (CARLTON MORLEY IS A GOD, police, Scotland Yard, vigilante, mystery, intrigue, great characters, fun story, witty dialogue, HOT SEX) Heat rating:    🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 (HOLY MOLY, IN. THE. FIRST. CHAPTER. ) I should probably break this into two parts. But when do I ever do what I should? This is going to be a long one because this is my absolute favorite book. 🏆 I had planned to wend my way through the romance novels I’ve read, in the order I read them, for this blog, but I couldn’t help myself. I. LOVE. THIS. BOOK. I love everything about this book. I have probably read it in its entirety 25 times. I have read snippets of it many more times than that. I am completely and utterly in love with Carlton Morley. And that was a surprise to me because I LOATHED him in the first Victorian Rebels book. These series are intertwined, and though I hope this review will send you running...

Favorite Series 📕📗  Like I said, this will be a list dump and not ranked. These are the series with books I have purchased (I usually try the library first--shout out to the Libby app!) and have either already reread or plan to reread. I don't love every single book in each series, of course. But being on this list means I liked at least one of the books (and usually more). There are many reasons I like these series/books--could be I loved the heroine, the hero was hot, the premise was different (not the same old HEA*), the sex was smokin', the author writes beautifully, the characters were different (scarred, blind, different races, same sex couples, etc.), I loved the dogs/cats/horses/pigs, or it featured my absolute favorite type of character (the character that you HATED in the first few books, but ended up adoring later**--shout out to Kerrigan Byrne's character SIR CARLTON MORLEY in the Victorian Rebels series and then the Goode Girls series , but specifically i...