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The Royal Treatment
The Royal Treatment by Melanie Summers is 99c at Amazon! This is a contemporary royal romance with an enemies to lovers theme. If you’re looking for a romantic comedy, readers recommend this one. However, others wanted more conflict between the hero and heroine before falling in love. Also, content warning for suicide as part of backstory according to reviews.
Ultra-private, ridiculously handsome Crown Prince Arthur has always gotten by on his charm. But that won’t be enough now that the Royal Family is about to be ousted from power once and for all. When Prince Arthur has to rely on the one woman in the kingdom who hates him most, he must learn that earning the love of a nation means first risking his heart.
Twenty-eight-year-old Tessa Sharpe, a.k.a. The Royal Watchdog, hates everything about Prince Arthur. As far as she’s concerned, he’s an arrogant, lazy leech on the kingdom of Avonia. When he shocks the nation by giving her the keys to the castle, Tessa has no choice but to accept and move in for two months. It’s lust at first sight, but there’s no way she can give in to her feelings—not if she wants to have a career or a shred of pride left when her time at the palace ends…
Can two natural enemies find their forever in each other’s arms, or will they ruin each other to save themselves?
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The Most Dangerous Duke in London
The Most Dangerous Duke in London by Madeline Hunter is $1.99! This is book one in the Decadent Dukes Society series. The hero wants revenge and the heroine just wants to go about publishing her women’s journal. Readers like the enemies to lovers aspect of the romance, but others wouldn’t recommend this one on audio as the narrator didn’t fit for them.
Three sinfully handsome dukes, three scores to settle, three hearts about to meet their matches. All in one thrilling new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter . . .
NOTORIOUS NOBLEMAN SEEKS REVENGE
Name and title: Adam Penrose, Duke of Stratton.
Affiliation: London’s elite Society of Decadent Dukes.
Family history: Scandalous.
Personality traits: Dark and brooding, with a thirst for revenge.
Ideal romantic partner: A woman of means, with beauty and brains, willing to live with reckless abandon.
Desire: Clara Cheswick, gorgeous daughter of his family’s sworn enemy.FAINT OF HEART NEED NOT APPLY
Clara may be the woman Adam wants, but there’s one problem: she’s far more interested in publishing her women’s journal than getting married—especially to a man said to be dead-set on vengeance. Though, with her nose for a story, Clara wonders if his desire for justice is sincere—along with his incredibly unnerving intention to be her husband. If her weak-kneed response to his kiss is any indication, falling for Adam clearly comes with a cost. But who knew courting danger could be such exhilarating fun?Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Dirty Money
Dirty Money by Jessica Clare is $1.99! This is the first book in the Roughneck Billionaires series and the character archetype of a blue collar billionaire is bordering on catnip for me. Some readers had difficulties liking either of the main characters, while others recommend this if you’re looking for some over the top fun.
Southern Texas heats up when four roughneck billionaires set their sights on love in the new series from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Clare.
Boone Price and his brothers know oil; at least, the dirty, backbreaking side of working an oil rig. But when their scrubby, worthless hunting land turns out to be sitting on top of one of the biggest oil wells in North America, they go from the rig to the boardroom and end up billionaires practically overnight.
Now with enough money to do whatever he wants, Boone is developing a taste for fine things. And the finest thing he’s ever seen is Ivy Smithfield, local realtor. Boone’s determined to buy her affection and show the world that he’s more than just a dirty fool with a bit of money. Ivy’s classy and beautiful – she’ll make the perfect trophy wife. The fact that she’s sexy and funny is just a bonus.
There’s one tiny problem – Ivy’s as dirt poor as Boone is. Her carefully crafted veneer of luxury? All an act to promote her business. What’s Boone going to do when he finds out the woman he’s falling for is, well, in his league?
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The Palace Job
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes is $1.99! This is a fantasy adventure book and was recommend in two Rec Leagues: Adventure Romance and Heist Books. Here are what commenters have said:
Judy W: If you like fantasy at all I remember recently reading The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes that was a heist caper in a Game of Thrones type setting.
KB: My rec is The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes, it’s the first of a trilogy and all three are really fun. The mastermind is a black woman, the crew is hysterical – the interactions of the secondary characters/crew might be my favorite part of heist stories – and it’s really funny with great dialog. There are a couple of interesting romances, but the focus is on the heist(s). It’s like Leverage, a show I loved.
Mikki: Patrick Weekes worked on Mass Effect, and Palace Job has the whole assembling a diverse cast of characters to exchange snark and save the world but in a fantasy setting, for anyone who likes those games.
Loch is seeking revenge.
It would help if she wasn’t in jail.
The plan: to steal a priceless elven manuscript that once belonged to her family, but now is in the hands of the most powerful man in the Republic. To do so Loch—former soldier, former prisoner, current fugitive—must assemble a crack team of magical misfits that includes a cynical illusionist, a shapeshifting unicorn, a repentant death priestess, a talking magical warhammer, and a lad with seemingly no skills to help her break into the floating fortress of Heaven’s Spire and the vault that holds her family’s treasure—all while eluding the unrelenting pursuit of Justicar Pyvic, whose only mission is to see the law upheld.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Palace Job is a funny, action-packed, high-fantasy heist caper in the tradition of Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastards series, from debut author Patrick Weekes.
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she’ll make the perfect trophy wife
I already hope she cleans him out in the divorce.
It wouldn’t have been hard to make me sympathize with one of The Poors struggling to navigate a rich man’s world in which he suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself, but instead… Nope.
The second book in that Jessica Clare series really turned me off too.
I kind of really hate those asshole billionaire romances… I don’t even like looking at those covers, they just make me mad lol.
I’m really interested in a romance b/w a Crown Prince and a Royal Watchdog!
For anyone who may be interested but hasn’t yet one-clicked. All 3 books in Patrick Weekes’ series Rogues of the Republic (The Palace Job is book 1) are free if you have Kindle Unlimited.
For those like me who do not like first person, the Jessica Clare book is written in first person.
Ivy’s classy and beautiful – she’ll make the perfect trophy wife.
*screeches to halt, rolls out of car, sets car on fire*
Bah! The Patrick Weekes books are not available for Kobo. 🙁
Yeah, The Palace Job’s publisher is 47North, which is an Amazon-only imprint.
In happier news, “Lord of Darkness” by Elizabeth Hoyt, book 5 in the Maiden Lane series, is $1.99 on Kindle AND Kobo.
THE PALACE JOB is also available via Prime Reading. I just downloaded it!
The Palace Job seems to be an good option out of my reading slump.
For those of you interested in such things, the Audible audiobook for The Palace Job is $1.99 with kindle purchase. Sometimes whispersync is awesome.
Just read the preview of The Royal Treatment. I’m not a fan of 1st person and present tense so it’s a no-go for me. It was good to learn, though, the prince does a one-hour mixed ‘marital’ arts training session every day with his head of security, Ollie.
Dirty Money looks to me like it might be suffering from some misapprehension about how the oil industry actually works in modern times.
I still remember how infuriated I was at the end of the Jessica Clare book. There have only been a handful of times an author I’ve liked has so completely turned me off a series, (and their future work in general) but just skip it. SKIP IT. I CANT EVEN FINISH THIS COMMENT BECAUSE IT WAS SO HORRIBLY DISAPPOINTING AND AWFUL.
But that’s just me.
I liked the sound of The Palace Job a lot, but the incorrect tense in the second sentence of the Amazon summary turned me right off. I suppose I could give the author the benefit of the doubt and assume someone else wrote the blurb, but before I click I would like some assurance that the rest of the book won’t read like that.
Ah well, I guess that’s what Free Samples are for, in the post-editing era.
I have a kid named Arthur, so cannot read ‘The Palace Job.’ I wonder, am I the only mom who flat-out can’t read sex scenes where the hero has your son’s name? Is this a problem if you give your child a popular romance hero name – Aidan or Jack, say?
@Tam: Not quite the same, but Judith McNaught’s Almost Heaven has a hero whose first AND last name is the same as my high school boyfriend. Not gonna read that one.
@Tam
Ah! I completely get it. I don’t have any kids, but one of my parents has a kind of popular given name and just…no. Absolutely cannot with any books where one of the romantic lead has same name. Ugh and ick!
Side note, my own given name is fairly common and it is confusing and surprisingly UN-sexy and not romantic trying to read a story where ‘you’ are running around doing all sorts of … saucy … things. O_o
@ Tam, I have no problem reading romances where the characters have my kids’ names, although it does give me a moment’s pause the first time I encounter it in the text. There’s just no actual overlap once I get to know the characters.