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Books on Sale: Historical Romances From Anna Campbell, Alma Katsu, Candace Camp - and Sarah MacLean

 Book Seven Nights in a Rogues BedSeven Nights in a Rogue's Bed by Anna Campbell is $1.99 right now. This book has a 3.91 average on Goodreads, and is a Beauty and the Beast retelling – with extra angst and emotion. There are tortured heroes, and then there are Anna Campbell Tortured Heroes – which are a whole other realm of emotional swirl.

 Desperate to save her sister's life, Sidonie Forsythe has agreed to submit herself to a terrible fate: Beyond the foreboding walls of Castle Craven, a notorious, hideously scarred scoundrel will take her virtue over the course of seven sinful nights. Yet instead of a monster, she encounters a man like no other. And during this week, she comes to care for Jonas Merrick in ways that defy all logic—even as a dark secret she carries threatens them both. 

Ruthless loner Jonas knows exactly who he is. Should he forget, even for a moment, the curse he bears, a mere glance in the mirror serves as an agonizing reminder. So when the lovely Sidonie turns up on his doorstep, her seduction is an even more delicious prospect than he originally planned. But the hardened outcast is soon moved by her innocent beauty, sharp wit, and surprising courage. Now as dangerous enemies gather at the gate to destroy them, can their new, fragile love survive?

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 Book The TakerThe Taker by Alma Katsu is the first book in her historical/Paranormal trilogy, and it's currently $2.99 at Amazon until 4 August.

 On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae—Lanny—walks into his ER, she changes his life forever. A mysterious woman with a past and plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. He is inexplicably drawn to her . . . despite the fact that she is a murder suspect with a police escort.

And as she begins to tell her story, a story of enduring love and consummate betrayal that transcends time and mortality, Luke finds himself utterly captivated. Her impassioned account begins at the turn of the nineteenth century in the same small town of St. Andrew, Maine, back when it was a Puritan settlement. Consumed as a child by her love for the son of the town’s founder, Lanny will do anything to be with him forever. But the price she pays is steep—an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate for all eternity.

And now, two centuries later, the key to her healing and her salvation lies with Dr. Luke Findley. Part historical novel, part supernatural page-turner, The Taker is an unforgettable tale about the power of unrequited love not only to elevate and sustain, but also to blind and ultimately destroy, and how each of us is responsible for finding our own path to redemption.

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 Book Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

 

 

RECOMMENDED – Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by 2013 RITA-winner Sarah MacLean is still $1.99. I wrote about this sale recently, but since she won the RITA (and since I really enjoyed this heroine) I wanted to post a reminder. If you like historical romance that's smart and funny, buy this right now. This book was nominated for the RITA in 2011, and our RITA Reader Challenge reviewer Diana was effusive – and justifiably so:

 Quite possibly one of the hottest, most delicious story of love I have ever read. (And trust me, I have not stopped devouring romance novels since I discovered it at the beginning of this year, and this is definitely listed in my top five.) There is this Something Special about this book that had me laughing and gasping and fanning myself and sighing and crying and everything in between. Sure, the wallflower spinster heroine has been featured many times before, and so has the rakish hero that is sure to win her heart, but in the hands of Sarah Maclean, their personalities and their stories transcends the archetypes and they simply become …. real.

 A lady does not smoke cheroot. She does not ride astride. She does not fence or attend duels. She does not fire a pistol, and she never gambles at a gentlemen's club.

Lady Calpurnia Hartwell has always followed the rules, rules that have left her unmarried—and more than a little unsatisfied. And so she's vowed to break the rules and live the life of pleasure she's been missing.

But to dance every dance, to steal a midnight kiss—to do those things, Callie will need a willing partner. Someone who knows everything about rule-breaking. Someone like Gabriel St. John, the Marquess of Ralston—charming and devastatingly handsome, his wicked reputation matched only by his sinful smile.

If she's not careful, she'll break the most important rule of all—the one that says that pleasure-seekers should never fall hopelessly, desperately in love.

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 Book A Gentleman Always RemembersA Gentleman Always Remembers by Candace Camp is a Kindle Daily Deal today, and is $1.99. This is the second book in Camp's Willowmere trilogy, and is about a widow who accepts a role as a governess, and ends up sparring verbally with her employer's brother (like you do) and fighting a blackmailer (like you do). It has a 3.78 average on Goodreads.

 Married young to a charming but improvident army officer, Eve Hawthorne was widowed with little left except for a few extravagant trifles. Desperate to avoid her domineering stepmother, she accepts employment as chaperone to the Earl of Stewkesbury’s American cousins. Who better than a levelheaded widow to remind these young girls that they no longer live on a frontier?

But when she flirts with a handsome stranger who turns out to be the earl’s brother Fitz, Eve worries she’s given the wrong impression. Trying to prove herself responsible—with Fitz challenging her at every turn—is hard enough, but a blackmailer with an interest in Eve’s prior marriage proves far more troubling.

With the earl away, Eve can turn only to Fitz for help. But dare she confide in him, when getting too close to this confirmed bachelor might risk her heart to his alluring ways?

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  1. I tried reading The Taker back in January and it just wasn’t for me, especially when I got to the gang rape scene.  This is in no way a romance.  It is all about obsession and lust, and it was very icky.

    A Gentleman Always Remembers is one of my favorite Candace Camp books.  The romance between Fitz and Eve was just so sweet and Camp’s plots are always a bit zany.

  2. Brandi B says:

    The Taker is $2.99 on Kobo too 🙂 She was on a panel I attended at RT this year and I’ve been meaning to try her books since then.

  3. Sandy James says:

    Damn it. I already have a stack of books from RWA conference to read, and now I’m “one clicking” historicals on my Kindle because of you! I have edits! I have writing! Yet here I am, all because of you, downloading more books!!

    “Hi, I’m Sandy J, and I’m a book hoarder…” 😉

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