FICTION
Released: May 1, 1998
"Steel goes to battle with yet another worthy cause, but her good intentions this time fizzle in a sea of Åber-melodrama."
Steel (The Ranch, 1997, etc.) actually manages to minimize child abuse in this saccharine take on tragedy.
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FICTION
Released: April 6, 1999
"Steel manages to make even some solid ideas sound treacly and dated."
FICTION
Released: June 20, 2000
"This time out, Steel makes an intelligent choice of subject matter--and only occasionally threatens to treacle it to death."
FICTION
Released: March 2, 2004
"Show-and-tell suspenser from Steel, heavily freighted with clumsy exposition. An afterthought romance for Lee and Fernanda is chilly and utterly unconvincing."
FICTION
Released: March 1, 2005
"Cartoonish prose and skimpy storyline do little for a notably unsexy romance from the indefatigable Steel (Echoes, 2004, etc., etc.)."
FICTION
Released: June 27, 2006
"A slight confection that spares no heartwarming family cliché, but one that acknowledges the unique challenges of today's mixed families."
Manhattan matron struggles to keep the family peace when her wildly divergent twin daughters are invited to a debutante ball.
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