Two from Lisa Kleypas, One from Lorraine Heath

Secrets of a Summer Night

RECOMMENDED: Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas is $2.99 at Amazon, $5.69 at Google Play, and $5.99 at BN and elsewhere. The price matching fairies must be dizzy at this point.

This book has a four-star average and is the first in the Wallflowers quartet, one of the best series Kleypas has written. It focuses on four friends who for various reasons are very low on marriage prospects. The first book features Annabelle, who is trying to save her family by marrying a nobleman, and Simon who is in trade, and is among the most wealthy men in London.

I really liked this book because Annabelle and Simon both have to realize their own prejudices and snobbery (more on Annabelle’s side with that issue), and both deal with social expectations, too.

Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband.So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born.

Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage. But Annabelle’s most intriguing—and persistent—admirer, wealthy, powerful Simon Hunt, has made it clear that while he will introduce her to irresistible pleasure he will not offer marriage. Annabelle is determined to resist his unthinkable proposition . . . but it is impossible in the face of such skillful seduction.

Her friends, looking to help, conspire to entice a more suitable gentleman to offer for Annabelle, for only then will she be safe from Simon—and her own longings. But on one summer night, Annabelle succumbs to Simon’s passionate embrace and tempting kisses . . . and she discovers that love is the most dangerous game of all.

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Again the Magic

Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas is $2.99 at Amazon, $5.99 elsewhere, and, heads up, the Spanish language edition, La Antigua Magia is $4.99 at BN. (Si hay unas abuelas, tias, o madres quien les gusta Kleypas: regalo perfecto!)

This book has a 4+ star average and is labeled as book .5 of the Wallflowers series. This book is about two childhood friends who fell in love as adults, and were separated by class boundaries. Now the hero, John McKenna, is back in England, bringing an enormous fortune with him, and he wants revenge on Aline – which never works out the way heroes envision.

She gave him her innocence…

Lady Aline Marsden was brought up for one reason: to make an advantageous marriage to a member of her own class. Instead, she willingly gave her innocence to John McKenna, a servant on her father’s estate. Their passionate transgression was unforgivable—John was sent away, and Aline was left to live in the countryside…an exile from London society…

…and he took her love.

Now McKenna has made his fortune, and he has returned—more boldly handsome and more mesmerizing than before. His ruthless plan is to take revenge on the woman who shattered his dreams of love. But the magic between them burns as bright as ever. And now he must decide whether to let vengeance take its toll…or risk everything for his first, and only, love.

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In Bed with the Devil

In Bed with the Devil by Lorraine Heath is $2.99 at Amazon and Google:Play, and $4.99 elsewhere. This book has a 4+ star average at GoodReads, and has a number of references to Oliver Twist. The hero, Lucian, is a rags-to-riches character who was sprung from jail after he murdered an earl’s son, and said earl recognized Lucian as his grandson. The reviews are full of many happy sighs, too. If you haven’t tried Heath, she’s a wonderful historical writer.

They call him the Devil Earl—a scoundrel and accused murderer who grew up on the violent London streets. A proper young lady risks more than her reputation when consorting with the roguishly handsome Lucian Langdon, but Lady Catherine Mabry believes she has no choice. To protect those she loves, she would do anything—even strike a bargain with the devil himself.

Lucian desires respectability and a wife above all else, but the woman of his choosing lacks the social graces to be accepted by the aristocracy. Catherine can help Lucian gain everything he wants. But what she asks for in exchange will put their very lives in jeopardy. When danger closes in, Catherine discovers a man of immense passion and he discovers a woman of immeasurable courage. As secrets from his dark past are revealed, Lucian begins to question everything he knows to be true, including the yearnings of his own heart.

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