Welcome to Book Beat! Think of Book Beat as Hide Your Wallet, Part Two!
In Hide Your Wallet, we talk about books coming out in a particular month that we really want to read. But there’s more to good books than just new releases!
Book Beat aims to highlight other books that we may hear about through friends, social media, or other sources. We could see a gorgeous ad! Or find a new-to-us author on a list of underrated romances! Think of Book Beat as Teen Beat or Tiger Beat, but for books. And no staples to open to get the fold-out poster.
We hope you find something new to read through Book Beat, and please let us know what books you’ve discovered recently!
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The Duke I Tempted
Author: Scarlett Peckham
Released: July 31, 2018 by NYLA
Genre: Erotica/Erotic Romance, Historical: European, Romance
Series: Secrets of Charlotte Street #1He’s controlled. Meticulous. Immaculate. No one would expect the proper Duke of Westmead to be a member of London’s most illicit secret club. Least of all: his future wife.
Having overcome financial ruin and redeemed his family name to become the most legendary investor in London, the Duke of Westmead needs to secure his holdings by producing an heir. Which means he must find a wife who won’t discover his secret craving to spend his nights on his knees – or make demands on his long scarred-over heart.
Poppy Cavendish is not that type of woman. An ambitious self-taught botanist designing the garden ballroom in which Westmead plans to woo a bride, Poppy has struggled against convention all her life to secure her hard-won independence. She wants the capital to expand her exotic nursery business – not a husband.
But there is something so compelling about Westmead, with his starchy bearing and impossibly kind eyes — that when an accidental scandal makes marriage to the duke the only means to save her nursery, Poppy worries she wants more than the title he is offering. The arrangement is meant to be just business. A greenhouse for an heir. But Poppy yearns to unravel her husband’s secrets – and to tempt the duke to risk his heart.
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I’m pretty sure Elyse featured this on a recent Hide Your Wallet, but in case you missed it! This historical romance has a botanist heroine, a marriage of convenience and a submissiver hero.
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Her New Groove
Author: Shelly Ellis
Released: April 24, 2018 by Shelly Ellis
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Novella, Romance
Series: A MacLaine Girls Novella #2An R&B songstress….
The bad boy that got away…
Can they get a second chance at love?
Monique Starr’s music career is at an all-time low: she’s in danger of losing her label contract and an embarrassing event has her front and center in all the gossip blogs—for all the wrong reasons! She decides to head back to D.C. and the MacLaine Academy of the Performing Arts to revamp her image, give her career a badly needed boost, and get her groove back. But she comes home to find her old Academy ailing financially, her mentor battling cancer, and her ex—whom she left behind to seek fame and fortune—very angry and unwilling to give her a second chance. But being back home reminds Monique of her old dreams and what she lost along the way to success. Now faced with second chances, will the music diva choose between love or fame, passion or ambition?
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The first book in this series, On Pointe, was reviewed favorably and the next in the series has an R&B singer heroine!
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Pushing Thirty
29-year-old viral TV blogger Zaahira Ramsey has it all, except peace. She’s built a fortress of protection around her heart as big as her coily hair. But when Chris Samuels enters her life, ready to unpack everything she’s been carrying, will she put up a fight? Or will the scrappy know-it-all fold under the pressure?
Camille Downing has lived most of her 29 years in the shadows of other people. As a top-notch executive assistant, she makes the impossible possible while taking none of the credit. But when she meets flashy and outgoing Jemel Jones, he makes her question why she’s been constantly selling herself short. Can she let go? Or will he push her too far out of her comfort zone?
Terry Baldwin can’t even. With three kids under her belt at 29, and a husband who acts like child number four, she’s slowly losing her mind. With her family falling apart at the seams, Terry decides to get a job. Can she be a full-time employee and mother? Or will the weight of adulting finally send her over the edge?
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As someone also pushing thirty, this book speaks to me! I also need to know what color nail polish the cover model is wearing.
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Your Heart Will Grow
Author: Chace Verity
Released: June 5, 2018
Genre: LGBTQIA, Paranormal, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Series: Absolutes #1Kelpana was never supposed to love humans this much.
As a mermaid tasked with keeping peace between land and sea, her job is to be fair. Neutral. Diplomatic. Political. But her carefree spirit is bewitched by the carousing, free-swinging ways of the landfolk…yet one night of careless fun becomes a death sentence when she spurns a bratty prince. Now she’s facing life in prison—but that life won’t be long without the ocean waters that keep her alive.
Yet if Kelpana dreams of better things than this new, grim existence—so, too, does the young man set to guard her in her cell. Morgan Sunilian wants to be more than anyone ever believed he could be. He wants to be an Absolute, decked in gold armor and fighting alongside the kingdom’s most elite guardians. Morgan will do anything to prove he’s strong enough to be more than a prison guard.
To prove he can be an Absolute.
Yet as each day watching over Kelpana passes with him falling under the sweet spell of her soft voice and quiet stories, he realizes the truth of who he wants to be more than even an Absolute.
He wants to be a man of honor. A man of kindness. A man of fairness.
And a man with the strength to defy his orders, risk his life, and save the woman he’s come to love.
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Sil of the Book Voyagers made a visual aesthetic for this book and that really won me over. A fantasy romance with a trans hero and a pansexual mermaid.
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I’m supposed to be doing pre-vacation housekeeping, but no, here I sit warming up my one click finger do I don’t break it. Submissive Duke? Yes please.
@DonnaMarie: Please click responsibly! 😛
Check out the color Cygnus Loop by a brand called ILNP. It’s pretty close to that nail polish on the cover. And will have you starting at your nails for hours.
I think the number of historicals with submissive heroes has just about doubled in the last few weeks! Looking forward to checking this one out as well.
Thanks for highlighting these books for us, Amanda.
Sweetheart Braves, book #3 in the Crooked Rock series by Pamela Sanderson. Lovely and hot romances with Native H/h’s. Came out September 2….