That Special Music Redux

A few days ago, I mentioned how I'd finally come across a musical score I'd been hearing since I was very little but had never been ...

CLASSIC REVIEW: "Clarissa," by Samuel Richardson

The Chick: Clarissa Harlowe. Beautiful, fashionable, kind, loyal, with an unimpeachable moral character, this third child of a wealthy, unt...

"Goddess of Spring," by P.C. Cast

The Chick: Carolina "Lina" Francesca Santoro. A lonely forty-something divorcee whose bakery faces financial ruin, she is contacte...

"Spellstruck," by Jaclyn Reding

The Chick: Jenna Wren. A single mother to two kids, and owner of a popular spa in her hometown of Ipswich-By-The-Sea, she treats the town...

That Very Special Music

I love movie scores. Yes - not just the songs by Aerosmith or Kenny Loggins that accompany the more dramatic scenes, but the wordless, instr...

"Again the Magic," by Lisa Kleypas

y The Chick: Lady Aline Marsden, younger sister to Marcus ( It Happened One Autumn ) Marsden. She fell in love with McKenna, a servant of il...

"Sweet Trouble," by Susan Mallery

The Chick: Jesse Keyes, the youngest sister to Claire ( Sweet Talk ) and Nicole ( Sweet Spot ). Five years after leaving Seattle, pregnant w...