Women’s Issues

Tea Leaf is Cockney For Thief: A Sophia Rose Revie

by Sophia Rose • Book Review Fiction • Tags: Antiquities, cooking, Cozy Mystery, food, Historical Mystery, Servants, Victorian era, Women's Issues

Poison is a cook’s weapon.

How Kitty Got Her Groove Back: A Sophia Rose Review

by Sophia Rose • Sophia Rose Reviews • Tags: Arts, Historical Fiction, jane austen, music, Regency era, sequel, Women's Issues

It’s Kitty Bennet’s time to Shine or go out ignobly.

Trouble’s Cooking Below Stairs in DEATH BELOW STAIRS

by Sophia Rose • Sophia Rose Reviews • Tags: cooking, Fenians, food, Historical Mystery, Servants, Victorian era, Women's Issues

A servants’ eye view to murder in a new series set in the Victorian Era.

RULE’S BRIDE: Antihero, Hero, or Just a Jerk?

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: armaments, arranged marriage, civil war, Victorian Period, Women's Issues

Who’s the hero in this twisty Victorian Romance?

The Star Charts Are Predicting A Hostile Takeover

by fangswandsfairy • Guest Reviewer • Tags: Colonial India, Colonialism, Family Tragedy, Historical Fiction, India, war, Women's Issues

For the Sake of the Family, Everyone Must Believe She is a Son

Suppressed Talent and Other Woes of the Regency Woman

by Sophia Rose • Sophia Rose Reviews • Tags: Historical Mystery, murder, Napoleonic War, Regency era, Social Reform, Women's Issues

Sophia Rose Reviews WHY KILL THE INNOCENT
A Frozen Corpse Threatens to Expose Dangerous Royal Secrets

Darcy on the Lamb & Elizabeth Bennet Gets a Clue

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: Historical romance, jane austen, Regency era, Variation, Women's Issues

They Can’t Have Been Entertaining a Murderer, Right?

COMPLETELY: Climbing Personal Mountains

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, contemporary romance • Tags: committment, Finding one's self, Marriage, Parenting, risk, Women's Issues

Ain’t no mountain high enough to conquer the spirits of Knox’s adventurous characters.

Am I Blue: THE INDIGO GIRL early review

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Fiction • Tags: business, colonial history, Historical Fiction, race, slavery, Women's Issues

A young woman in colonial SC is given authority over the family business but is faced with many difficulties, including the sexual abuse of slaves.

TREMAINE’S TRUE LOVE: A Man and His Sheep

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: agriculture, Marriage, regency era romance, steamy, Women's Issues

A wool merchant, from the sheep up, Tremaine is bent on buying an earl’s flock. But, the earl’s sister has a social conscience he finds even more intriguing.

SOMEONE TO HOLD: What it Meant to be a Bastard

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: Art, bigamy, illegitimacy, Regency, Women's Issues

Will losing her position and wealth, her very legitimacy, be the best or worst thing that ever happens to Camille?

IF I ONLY HAD A DUKE: A STORY OF WOMEN & STRUGGLE

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: art history, Artemesia Gentileschi, Baroque Painting, Lenora Bell, Regency Romance, Tantor, Tantora, Women's Issues

A woman who loves art but with a bad track record with men seeks to find out what paintings are in the duke’s attic. Are they the paintings of the female artist Artemesia Gentileschi?

HER BACKUP BOYFRIEND: We’ve Come a Long Way, Maybe?

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction • Tags: careers, Contemporary Romance, sexual harassment, Tantor, Women's Issues

Tired of being fixed-up, and because she needs a love interest to solidify her position at work, a female lawyer and her contractor engage in a fake relationship.