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A Duchess in Name
RECOMMENDED: A Duchess in Name by Amanda Weaver is 99c at select vendors! This is a Kindle Daily Deal, so get it while it’s hot! Redheadedgirl reviewed the book and gave it a B+:
This book involves a massive renovation, a HERO that was won in a card game, awkwardness, and learning to love each other despite a most inauspicious beginning. Throw in some terrible parenting, and we got ourselves what could totally be a miniseries jointly produced by ITV and HGTV.
Victoria Carson never expected love. An American heiress and graduate of Lady Grantham’s finishing school, she’s been groomed since birth to marry an English title—the grander the better. So when the man chosen for her, the forbidding Earl of Dunnley, seems to hate her on sight, she understands that it can’t matter. Love can have no place in this arrangement.
Andrew Hargrave has little use for his title and even less for his cold, disinterested parents. Determined to make his own way, he’s devoted to his life in Italy working as an archaeologist. Until the collapse of his family’s fortune drags him back to England to a marriage he never wanted and a woman he doesn’t care to know.
Wild attraction is an unwanted complication for them both, though it forms the most fragile of bonds. Their marriage of convenience isn’t so intolerable after all—but it may not be enough when the deception that bound them is finally revealed.
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Trust Me on This
RECOMMENDED: Trust Me on This by Jennifer Crusie is $1.99! Sarah mentioned this on a previous podcast with Carrie and Jim C. Hines. She said, “It was wonderful because it was, it was just very sweet and very free.” It was also a previous Sizzling Book Club pick. Have you read this one?
Dennie Banks is an investigative reporter chasing down the biggest story of her career. Alec Prentice is a government agent working undercover to catch an elusive grifter. When they meet by accident, it’s a case of mistaken identities at first sight. What they don’t mistake is the instant attraction they have for each other, an attraction they’ll do everything in their power to resist—because Dennie thinks that Alec is running interference for her interview subject, and Alec suspects that Dennie is linked to his swindler. As the confusion grows, so do their feelings for each other, and what begins as a romantic comedy of errors may just end in the love affair of a lifetime.
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Letters from Skye
Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole is $1.99! This is an epistolary romance that was featured on a podcast episode on the same subject. Here’s what Sarah had to say:
Now, I haven’t read this, but I read about it on Heroes and Heartbreakers when I was researching some recommendations, and it caught my attention ‘cause it has all the things that I like. It is a story told in letters. It also features parallel storylines, so if you like the sort of timeslip qualities of Susanna Kearsley’s novels, this might appeal to you as well.
The reviews are kind of mixed. Some people loved it because of the quality of reading and the correspondence, but other people found that the, the characters were a little too simplistic for their tastes. Either way, I still want to read this, because letters, and also Scotland and historical and letters.
A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir the heart.
March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet, has never seen the world beyond her home on Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye. So she is astonished when her first fan letter arrives, from a college student, David Graham, in far-away America. As the two strike up a correspondence—sharing their favorite books, wildest hopes, and deepest secrets—their exchanges blossom into friendship, and eventually into love. But as World War I engulfs Europe and David volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western front, Elspeth can only wait for him on Skye, hoping he’ll survive.
June 1940: At the start of World War II, Elspeth’s daughter, Margaret, has fallen for a pilot in the Royal Air Force. Her mother warns her against seeking love in wartime, an admonition Margaret doesn’t understand. Then, after a bomb rocks Elspeth’s house, and letters that were hidden in a wall come raining down, Elspeth disappears. Only a single letter remains as a clue to Elspeth’s whereabouts. As Margaret sets out to discover where her mother has gone, she must also face the truth of what happened to her family long ago.
Sparkling with charm and full of captivating period detail, Letters from Skye is a testament to the power of love to overcome great adversity, and marks Jessica Brockmole as a stunning new literary voice.
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Born in Blood
Born in Blood by Alexandra Ivy is $1.99! This is the first book in her Sentinels series and features a cop hero. In the series, supernatural beings also exist in the world, though many try to live on a protected compound in the Midwest called Valhalla. Some readers felt sex between the hero and heroine happened way too quickly, while others enjoyed a paranormal romance without the usual werewolves and vampires. Several of Ivy’s other titles are also on sale for $3.99 or less!
In a stunning new paranormal romance series—even edgier than her bestselling Guardians of Eternity books—New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Ivy lures readers into the dark, seductive world of the Sentinels—humans outcast by their hidden abilities, treading the line between life and death, good and evil, pleasure and pain…
Born In Blood
Sergeant Duncan O’Conner has seen it all before. A beautiful erotic dancer is found murdered in her home—no suspect, no motive. But there’s one clue: she’s missing her heart. It’s enough to make the hard-bitten Kansas City cop enlist the help of a necro—one of the dead-channeling freaks who live in the domed city of nearby Valhalla. It’s a long shot, but desperate crimes call for desperate measures.
Unlike the other “high-bloods” in Valhalla, Callie Brown considers her abilities a gift, not a curse. But when she reads the dancer’s final thoughts, she senses a powerful presence blocking her vision. This is no ordinary homicide. This is the work of a legendary necromancer who controls souls. A ravenous force that will put Callie’s skills to the test, O’Conner’s career at risk, and both their hearts on the line…literally
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The hero in Duchess in Name needed to do some major groveling because he was a major douche in a solid chunk of the novel. Luckily, he does a fairly good grovel. Liked the heroine a lot. Hero wasn’t without good qualities and he does grovel, and he really needed to.
Jennifer Crusie
If it has Skye written on the cover, I’m a goner. What a beautiful, magical place!
Trust Me on This is very screwball–it could totally be a Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant movie–in the very best way. There is a dizzying amount of plot, with charming characters saying clever things, which makes for a quick, fun read. The heroine distracting the hero while he’s on the phone is still on of my favorite scenes. It also has a secondary pairing between an older couple, which I know is some people’s catnip. And if I recall correctly, the publishers put a dog on the cover (since dogs are integral to most of Crusie’s books) and thus Crusie had to write a dog into the book, which is to say there is very little dog in this story, so don’t get your hopes too high.
I don’t know how this happened, but I don’t think I’ve ever read Trust Me on This. Anyway, I’m certainly going to now.
Somehow I missed that Crusie, too. So, yea! a new Crusie, just in time for a plane trip next week. BTW, there’s no link to BN, but it’s on sale there as well.
Cat C has it right on Trust Me On This. The dog was written in to this version of the story because the publisher was like, “Dogs sell books.” But Crusie was “There isn’t a dog in the book. Fine. I’ll add one.”
It is a fun, quick read. Well done. I liked the secondary romance almost more than the primary romance.
I loved Trust Me On This!
Please, please, please ladies. I don’t want to be the person saying “hey, there’s a typo” but it pains me to see the remarkable Jennifer Crusie get front page billing as Jennifer Cruise. Could someone please fix this?
@Sharon: Fixed. Thank you!