Julie Anne Long

Oct 22, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Julie Anne Long |Colleen Hoover

A keeper, fusing the beauties of historical romance with present-day ideas of individual happiness. A marriage of estrangement becomes real just as it's ending. Alexandra Bellamy kissed her first love goodbye on the day of her wedding to war hero Colonel Magnus Brightwall, widely known as the Beast. The seeming betrayal stalled her new life and led to five years of separation from her husband, who went off to Spain as a diplomat without her.

May 9, 2023 | reformedrakes.com | Kerrigan Byrne |Julie Anne Long

Show NotesNewgate prison served as the main punitive facility in London for six centuries until it closed in 1902. If you expect this genre to be limited to country houses and The Ton, you might be surprised at how often authors invoke Newgate in their stories. Newgate as a recurring thematic space becomes shorthand for terror, grime, and pain. What’s the effect then when it’s invoked in a romance novel? In this episode, the rakes cover Newgate itself and several books that fictionalize Newgate.

Apr 28, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Debbie Macomber |Tehlor Kay Mejia |Rachel Solomon |Julie Anne Long

Bestseller Macomber (The Best Is Yet to Come) delivers exactly the type of sweet and squeaky clean small-town romance that fans expect. Four years after Joan Sample’s beloved husband died suddenly from an aneurysm, the 54-year-old widow is still struggling to come to grips with her loss. A bit of a shut-in, she’s pulled from her rut by her sister, Emmie, who encourages her to get some human contact by taking in a boarder.