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Hamilton’s Battalion
Hamilton’s Battalion is available for preorder at Amazon for $4.99! This is a historical romance anthology from Courtney Milan, Rose Lerner, and Alyssa Cole and many of you were super interested in it after it was mentioned on the most recent podcast episode with Cole. I’m excited to see the cover once it’s been finalized.
Love in the time of Hamilton…
On October 14, 1781, Alexander Hamilton led a daring assault on Yorktown’s defenses and won a decisive victory in America’s fight for independence. Decades later, when Eliza Hamilton collected his soldiers’ stories, she discovered that while the war was won at Yorktown, the battle for love took place on many fronts…
PROMISED LAND by Rose Lerner
Donning men’s clothing, Rachel left her life behind to fight the British as Corporal Ezra Jacobs–but life catches up with a vengeance when she arrests an old love as a Loyalist spy.
At first she thinks Nathan Mendelson hasn’t changed one bit: he’s annoying, he talks too much, he sticks his handsome nose where it doesn’t belong, and he’s self-righteously indignant just because Rachel might have faked her own death a little. She’ll be lucky if he doesn’t spill her secret to the entire Continental Army.
Then Nathan shares a secret of his own, one that changes everything…
THE PURSUIT OF… by Courtney Milan
What do a Black American soldier, invalided out at Yorktown, and a British officer who deserted his post have in common? Quite a bit, actually.
* They attempted to kill each other the first time they met.
* They’re liable to try again at some point in the five-hundred mile journey that they’re inexplicably sharing.
* They are not falling in love with each other.
* They are not falling in love with each other.
* They are…. Oh, no.THAT COULD BE ENOUGH by Alyssa Cole
Mercy Alston knows the best thing to do with pesky feelings like “love” and “hope”: avoid them at all cost. Serving as a maid to Eliza Hamilton, and an assistant in the woman’s stubborn desire to preserve her late husband’s legacy, has driven that point home for Mercy—as have her own previous heartbreaks.
When Andromeda Stiel shows up at Hamilton Grange for an interview in her grandfather’s stead, Mercy’s resolution to live a quiet, pain-free life is tested by the beautiful, flirtatious, and entirely overwhelming dressmaker.
Andromeda has staid Mercy reconsidering her worldview, but neither is prepared for love—or for what happens when it’s not enough.
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Shacking Up
Shacking Up by Helena Hunting is 99c! This is part of a huge Swerve sale going on and we’ll definitely feature more books this week. This book has a romantic comedy vibe and is actually pretty funny, but I’ll admit that it does take some suspension of disbelief, since it can be a bit zany at times.
Ruby Scott is months behind on rent and can’t seem to land a steady job. She has one chance to turn things around with a big audition. But instead of getting her big break, she gets sick as a dog and completely bombs it in the most humiliating fashion. All thanks to a mysterious, gorgeous guy who kissed—and then coughed on—her at a party the night before.
Luckily, her best friend might have found the perfect opportunity; a job staying at the lavish penthouse apartment of hotel magnate Bancroft Mills while he’s out of town, taking care of his exotic pets. But when the newly-evicted Ruby arrives to meet her new employer, it turns out Bane is the same guy who got her sick.
Seeing his role in Ruby’s dilemma, Bane offers her a permanent job as his live-in pet sitter until she can get back on her feet. Filled with hilariously awkward encounters and enough sexual tension to heat a New York City block, Shacking Up, from NYT and USA Today bestselling author Helena Hunting, is sure to keep you laughing and swooning all night long.
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The Billionaire Beast
The Billionaire Beast by Jackie Ashenden is 99c! This is an erotic Beauty and the Beast retelling and, while this is the second book in the Billionaire Fairytales series, it can be read as a standalone. Readers really felt for the hero, but felt the heroine seemed like a doormat at times.
Dark, tortured, and intimidating, these dominant billionaires will steal their innocent heroines’ breath away. Overwhelmed by their desire to control their world, they push their heroines to explore their deepest desires. But even the most unworldly of heroines can unlock these billionaires’ secrets.
Nero de Santis: Damaged. Bastard. Beast.Nero hasn’t left his house in ten years—he demands the world come to him, and the world is only too happy to bend to the strong-willed billionaire. Ruthless, cold, and selfish, Nero wants for nothing and takes care of no one but himself. His last handful of assistants have left his house in tears, but the prim redhead applying for the job looks up to the task. Nero has spent his life shut within the walls he built, with no care to have more than a window to the outside world. But the fiery passion he senses beneath his reserved assistant’s exterior makes him want to break down the barriers he lives behind, and unleash the beast within.
Phoebe Taylor: Uptight. Misunderstood. Engaged.
Phoebe needs the obscene amount of money that comes with being Nero’s personal assistant for one thing, and one thing only—to pay for the mounting hospital costs that her fiancee’s two-year coma continues to incur. She’s heard rumors that the de Santis beast is a force that cannot be tamed—but even she isn’t prepared to handle the smoldering intensity simmering beneath his hard shell of feral dominance. Nero is hiding something, something he is fighting with every step he takes. Yet he can’t help but stake his claim on this woman who has shaken up his life, and Phoebe can’t believe this animal of a man is the one person to ever look into her eyes and see her soul. Nero wants to keep her. He wants to devour her. And Phoebe just might let him.
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The SEAL’s Rebel Librarian
The SEAL’s Rebel Librarian by Anne Calhoun is 99c! Sarah read this novella and while she felt the ending was rushed (which is a common problem for me in novellas), it still earned a B grade:
I really enjoyed reading this novella, and recommend it for fans of hotter contemporary romance.
And really, I haven’t met many people who can resist that title. The story inside comes very, very close to living up to the promise of it.
The second in the Alpha Ops novella series that features an alpha Navy SEAL and the librarian who brings him to his knees.
Jack Powell never planned on leaving the Navy, but his final mission as a SEAL left him with a tremor and a bad case of nerves. He’s home, taking some college classes and trying to figure out what comes next when he meets Erin Kent, a divorced college librarian with an adventurous bucket list and a mission to get her ex-husband’s voice out of her head. Jack guides Erin through skydiving and buying the motorcycle of her dreams, blithely accepting Erin’s promise that their relationship is purely temporary. But when Jack gets the chance to go back into the shadowy world of security contracting, can he convince Erin to break her word and join him on the adventure of a lifetime?
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Just finished both THE BILLIONAIRE BEAST and REBEL LIBRARIAN and liked them both. Yes–the heroine of BEAST does seem a little too passive and takes a lot from her billionaire boss, but it’s made clear in the book why the heroine is so self-effacing (several plausible reasons). I think LIBRARIAN works best when read in conjunction with the other SEAL novellas and the longer novels of the ALPHA OPS series.
Appropriately, the Hamilton biography by Chernow is an Australian Kindle Daily deal.
The Shacking Up guy needs to be on cover snark. His torso doesn’t go with the bottom half, and there seems to be some sort of growth off to the lower left. Get that looked at by a doctor, Dude.
It’s fiancé, not fiancee, in The Billionaire Beast.
I had misgivings about the “fiancee” being a romantic false lead. So may others.
Btw sounds a bit “Thomas est amoureux” but with a happy ending…Not before time.
@MirandaB: Hey now, plenty of women would be happy to have a man with such voluptuous hips. Don’t you ever change, Towel Dude.
(Autocorrect wanted “women” to be “workmen,” which I guess could also be the case.)
I am surprisingly into The Billionaire Asshole, I mean Beast. Maybe what my dire mood calls for is a flaming unrepentant jackass.
Hey, “Hamilton’s Battalion” goddesses: please, please, please make the book available on Nook and other platforms (I, for one, still refuse to submit to the evil Amazon overlord, Jeff Bezos). Thanks!
A Dragon’s Family Album by Thea Harrison is FREE. It has 3 Elder Races novellas.
Duke of Pleasure by Elizabeth Hoyt is on sale for $3.99.
” Refusing to Submit to the Evil Overlord” now there’s a bdsm/ historical romance book title! 🙂
“Refusing to Submit to the Evil Amazonian” – queer historical fantasy bdsm (I suppose it could also be het romance too, but that’s not as appealing to me)
And I am sooooo interested in Hamilton’s Battalion (I would even buy the Kindle version if epub isn’t a possibility). I think both Alyssa Cole and Courtney Milan are excellent writing novella length – I haven’t read Rose Lerner yet.
Truth or Beard is currently 99 pennies. I believe Amazon only, as its currently on KU. I really enjoyed these books, and they can be read as standalones. I just wish the other titles weren’t at such a high price point!
My reaction to Hamilton’s Battalion: EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee!!!!!
That is all.
@Betsydub I’m sure more vendors are coming–it looks like Courtney Milan is self-publishing this and I think partially because of that, the pre-order and buy links aren’t all available at once. But she’s really good about setting up her books at multitude of sources–see example book here: http://www.courtneymilan.com/onceuponamarquess.php
And the page for Hamilton’s Battalion also promises “more buy links coming soon”: http://www.courtneymilan.com/hamiltonsbattalion.php
Also, whooo I am so excited for this book! This is the first thing Courtney’s put out in a year, and what a long year it was…
Okay, I read The Billionaire Beast and wasn’t prepared for the feels, dammit. Shortly after the flaming unrepentant jackass intro, Asperger-type characteristics are introduced, and agoraphobia, and a profoundly scarring childhood that at first blush sounds like Harry Potter’s life at the Dursleys’ but rapidly becomes more like Flowers in the Attic… GIVE THIS BEAST ALL THE HUGS.
The Billionaire’s Virgin (Cinderella) and The Billionaire’s Intern (Sleeping Beauty) are also $0.99 each.
@Ren: Ugh, and I was trying to be good with my book buying this month!
I love Helena Hunting but was so disappointed in Shacking Up… Wish I waited for this sale!
So excited about Hamilton’s Battalion!
http://smpromance.com/steals-and-deals/
Swerve has 100 books priced at $0.99 this week!
Swerve is an imprint of St Martin’s press
@cleo Rose Lerner is badass. I am so thankful I stumbled into her books a year ago. Get ready for a super unique (yet still accurate) historical perspective.
@Amanda: “Good with book buying” is subject to interpretation. For example, the more you buy on sale, the more money you save. 😀
re: The heroine being passive. Yes, it was explained that she’d been conditioned all her life to be agreeable, and that was plausible and relatable to me, as was her need to get and keep this well-paying job. My frustration with her is that in the beginning, she enjoys that her unflappable compliance befuddles the hero, so even when she’s “yes, of course, your wish is my command”ing him, there’s an element of challenge, like “What else you got? I’ll knock that down, too, sucker.” But once she catches sympathy, that subtle pushback vanishes, which may very well be consistent with her helper/healer tendencies but is also a total drag. It was one of few fun elements in what’s really a pretty dark tale, so its absence was felt.
I’d really like to see savior characters have (and maintain) more pluck about it. In real life, soggy dishrags enable more than they help, and what actually begets change is a gentle (or not so much) kick in the ass. Love (in any form) doesn’t mean coddling destructive behavior, and it bothers me how routinely that’s depicted as the route to transforming someone with emotional scars. I worked in mental health for 20 years, so it is with clinical as well as personal experience that I say, THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS.
@cleo I love Rose Lerner’s writing and binge read her Lively St.Lemeston books in a week. They are available for the nook and very affordable. She writes great novellas, too. Definitely recommended for everyone that wants to read more diverse and historically plausible regency romances!
@Katie Lynn, same. I love Reid’s books, but they’re hardly ever on sale. Thanks for the head’s up; went over & snatched that quick!