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A Queen from the North
RECOMMENDED: A Queen from the North by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese is $2.99! This book was recently recommended to Redheadedgirl and she loved it, giving it a B+ grade:
I liked this a LOT. I liked the world building, and I liked Amelia. I liked how her initial reaction to Arthur’s proposal that they consider this level of political marriage was, “So… I’d be the first Yorkist to sit the throne since Richard III and I could actually create positive change for my people? I can’t say NO, can I? Of course I’ll think about it.”
It may be the 21st century, but in a not-so-united kingdom the wounds of the the Wars of the Roses have never healed. The rivalry between the Yorkish north and Lancastrian south has threatened to pull the nation apart for over 500 years.
While the modern world struggles with fractures born of ancient conflict, Lady Amelia Brockett faces far more mundane problems. Known to her family as Meels, this youngest daughter of a Northern earl is having the Worst. Christmas. Ever. Dumped by her boyfriend and rejected from graduate school, her parents deem her the failure of the family.
But when her older brother tries to cheer her with a trip to the races, a chance meeting with Arthur, the widowed, playboy Prince of Wales, offers Amelia the chance to change her life — and Britain’s fortunes — forever. Hunted by the press — and haunted by Arthur’s niece who fancies herself the kingdom’s court witch — Amelia finds herself adrift in a sea of paparazzi, politics, and prophecy.
With few allies beyond her allergic-to-horses sister-in-law, her best friend who has a giant crush on the prince, and the cute young receptionist at Buckingham Palace that calls himself her Royalty Customer Service Representative, Amelia must navigate a perilous and peculiar course to secure Arthur’s love and become A Queen from the North.
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Silver Deceptions
Silver Deceptions by Sabrina Jeffries is $2.99! This was originally published in the mid-nineties and under a different name. Be warned that the heroine witnesses her mother’s abuse and death. And, if you’re a fan of Jeffries’ writing, many of her full-length romances and novellas are on sale!
In New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries’s classic, revised novel, originally written as Deborah Martin, London Theater’s newest actress is determined to find out secrets about her past.
Arriving in a cloak of mystery, London Theater’s newest actress, Annabelle Taylor, quickly became known as “The Silver Swan.” While she loved performing for her adoring audiences every night, Annabelle secretly longed to draw out the aristocratic father who abandoned her and her mother years ago.
Sent to unmask her identity, Colin Jeffreys, Marquis of Hampden, had only his dashing good looks and desirable kisses to use as bait. Sparring with wit and half-truths, Colin and Annabelle soon realized what they truly wanted was a night of passion. But when Annabelle’s vengeful quest traps her in a nest of deceit and treachery, she realizes she must place her faith in Colin—a man she doesn’t trust, but can’t resist
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The Rock
The Rock by Monica McCarty is $2.99! This is book eleven in the Highland Guard series and was one of Elyse’s picks on a previous Hide Your Wallet. Readers loved the writing, but seemed to feel that the main conflict was resolved a little easily. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
New York Times bestselling author Monica McCarty continues her Highland Guard series in this eleventh steamy historical romance set against the sweeping backdrop of the Scottish Highlands.
The first time he caught sight of Elizabeth Douglas, Thomas MacGowan thought she was a princess. To the son of the castle blacksmith, the daughter of the powerful Lord of Douglas might as well be. When it becomes clear that his childhood companion will never see him as a man she could love, Thom joins Edward Bruce’s army as a man-at-arms to try to change his lot. If he’s harbored a secret hope that he could close the gap between them, he faces the cold, hard truth when Elizabeth comes to him for help. She might need the boy who used to climb cliffs to rescue her brother from the hands of the English, but she would never see the son of a smith as a man worthy of her hand.
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Flirting with Fire
Flirting with Fire by Kate Meader is $2.99! This is a contemporary romance and was mentioned in a podcast episode with The Ripped Bodice owners, Bea and Leah. Readers loved the heroine, but found the pace surprisingly slow. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
The first installment in Hot in Chicago, a brand-new, sizzling series from Kate Meader that follows a group of firefighting foster siblings and their blazing hot love interests!
Savvy PR guru Kinsey Taylor has always defined herself by her career, not her gender. That is, until she moved from San Francisco to Chicago to be with her fiancé who thought she wasn’t taking her “job” of supporting him in his high-powered career seriously enough—and promptly dumped her for a more supportive and “feminine” nurse. Now, as the new assistant press secretary to Chicago’s dynamic mayor, she’s determined to keep her eye on the prize: no time to feel inferior because she’s a strong, kick-ass woman, and certainly no time for men.
But that all changes when she meets Luke Almeida, a firefighter as searingly sexy as he is quick-tempered. He’s also the second oldest of the Firefightin’ Dempseys, a family of foster siblings who have committed their lives to the service—if Luke’s antics don’t get him fired first. When Luke goes one step too far and gets into a bar brawl with the Chicago Police Department, Kinsey marches into Luke’s firehouse and lays down the law on orders from the mayor. But at Engine Co. 6, Luke Almeida is the law. And he’s not about to let Kinsey make the rules.
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One-clicked The Rock so fast it created a cyberspace breeze. All my catnip, plus a blacksmith hero? 10/10 would read literally any book starring a smith. Would read a 500 pager where nothing happened except sex and shoeing of horses.
It might be too specific and selfish to ask, but if we ever have a blacksmith Rec League I will bake every single one of you a virtual double chocolate cookie.
@Rose – there is a blacksmith hero in the Spindle Cove series but he only get a novella
@Hope thank you! I love that one. Read it several times. I only wish it were longer!!
@Rose – yes both characters got cheated there, I think. They should have had their book!!!
@Rose: We will certainly add this to our Rec League list!
@Hope totally!! I am so down for a sequel.
@Amanda Really?!?! You have totally made my day!!!! I love the Bitchery. Thank you so much!! Off to start baking!!!
I’d be here for a blacksmith Rec League!
I even crushed on Perrin the blacksmith in the Wheel of Time series. My husband is a welder and we still joke about blacksmithing because blacksmiths are my catnip!
So anybody know who the Cover Model is for The Rock? Sure looks like Welsh Rugby Player Mike Phillips?
@Rose, have you read Under Her Skin by Adriana Anders? The hero is a blacksmith. It’s a contemporary, and quite dark due to some ugly stuff that happened to the heroine resulting in her arrival in his neighborhood. But I thought you might be interested anyway.
@Nancy C I have not. I’ve seen it pop up on here multiple times, and I keep allllmost clicking it, because it looks like everything I love, but I am a giant baby and I get knocked out really easily by dark themes. If I get to the point I think I can handle it without crapping out halfway through, I’ll read it. But thank you for suggesting!! <3
For some reason I really couldn’t get into Queen of the North. It seemed right up my alley! I didn’t really like Amelia, and it kind of bugged me how she seemed surprised that she would be a subject of interest to the press and paparazzi. Maybe I just wasn’t in a great mood when I read it…
Oops, sorry, Queen FROM the North…too much Game of Thrones lately!
@Rose
Have you read this one? The Blacksmith’s Wife by Elisabeth Hobbes (Harlequin Historical)
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B017RCL96M/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3Q3SBV9YGGMW2&coliid=I2O2R3DWFGC0PF
@Michelle no, I haven’t! Thank you!!
Okay, I am going to call on the awe-inspiring memory powers of the Bitchery to come up with the title of a blacksmith story I liked: it was an f/f short story, in an anthology of either all-lesbian or all-GLBT fantasy stories. The one heroine was a blacksmith who had formerly been a soldier (described: grey hair cut short, had a limp), and she was dealing with grief and guilt because she had once had a crush on a soldier in the opposite army who was killed– she describes once seeing this soldier looking absolutely glorious on a tall rearing horse. I don’t remember as much about the other heroine, but there’s a scene where she gives the blacksmith a therapeutic massage because she’s sore from the old injury. I think the other heroine was a healer by profession. That ring a bell with anyone?
@Rose- Miranda Jarrett’s book Sunrise is set on 18th century Nantucket and the hero is a former Captain turned smith. The heroine is shipwrecked there and the hero finds her (she’s French and runs a shop in Boston with her sister). It’s part of a family series and I haven’t read it in at least a decade or so but I remember thinking it was cute at the time. It has an unusual setting and main characters, no nobles.