Caroline is the first book that Anne Mather wrote, in 1965 when she was just 19. While her talent is already apparent, it’s a very naive work in many ways. 17-year-old Caroline has lunch and a dinner date (yes – literally just two dates) with her handsome boss 39-year-old Adam Steinbeck. After this briefest of […]
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Chase a Green Shadow by Anne Mather
Three things irked me about the hero in Chase a Green Shadow: 37-ish Welsh writer Hywel, who’s paired with 17-year-old Tamsyn. The first is that his name – Hywel Benedict – sounds just like the actor Hywel Bennet (also Welsh) He’s described looking just like Welsh singer Tom Jones, all dark and hairy with massive […]
Read MoreForbidden Love by Karen Robards
Forbidden Love is a pure, unadulterated bodice-ripper – in the most literal sense – from start to finish. If that’s what you’re after, and you’re happy with an alpha sexually aggressive hero, then this one will hit the spot. Our heroine is 17-year-old violet-eyed Megan and our hero is her 42-year-old guardian, Justin Brant, sixth […]
Read MoreSea Fever by Anne Weale
Sea Fever is an excellent book. It’s a truly lovely and believable romance, between orphan Evangeline “Angel” Dorset, 17-years-old when the book begins, and 33-year merchant banker Charles Thetford. Angel’s grandfather has just died on their yacht in Bali, and she seeks help from the first group of people she finds, which turns out to […]
Read MoreWipe Away the Tears by Patricia Lake
Wipe Away the Tears features 19-year-old Jassy (the name irritated the hell out of me, and it occurs 508 times in the book) falling in insta-lust with wealthy business magnate 36-year-old Max. Her controlling stepfather wants her to marry his business partner’s son René, but Jassy doesn’t want to. But she’s so damn weak she […]
Read MoreHaunted Dreams by Charlotte Lamb
Haunted Dreams is an absolute scorcher of a vintage age-gap romance, with 20-year-old virgin heroine Emilie and 40-year-old ultra-alpha man-of-the-world business tycoon/banker Ambrose Kerr. First published in 1995, it feels much more like a 1970s/early 1980s romance novel. There’s insta-lust/attraction between the pair, rather poetically described on the hero’s side. He felt a strange stirring […]
Read MoreA Man of Means by Kay Thorpe
Superb stuff. Classic vintage age-gap melodrama and super steamy. Dana’s 17, Mark’s 35, and they can’t stop lusting over one another despite his scruples about sleeping with someone half his age. Even though he didn’t have many scruples about marrying her. All in all a perfect May-December (or perhaps October) dynamic. There’s a rather unrealistic […]
Read MoreThe Disapproving Duke
The Duke of Eastleigh wants to disapprove of beautiful Diana St Clair, but can’t get her out of his mind.
Read MoreForbidden Classes
Laura is still in love with Mr Rydell despite trying to find comfort elsewhere, how can she win him back?
Read MoreTeaching His Ward
Marcus Harlington, Earl Southwell, is furious to discover that the young woman he romanced at a ball is his runaway ward, Jemima. He now plans to teach her some rather more wifely duties.
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