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Outlander
RECOMMENDED: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon is $3.99 at most vendors! No one here ever talks about Outlander, it certainly doesnât have one of the most popular heroes or couples in fiction, and itâs not a perennial bestseller. : )
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenachâan âoutlanderââin a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desireâand between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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Once a Princess
Once a Princess by Johanna Lindsey is $2.99! This book was originally published in the early nineties and gets mentioned on this week’s podcast, so stay tuned for that! A prince has come to America to track down a long lost princess, who just so happens to be entertaining some gentleman in a Mississippi bar. Yep, you read that right. The romance was slow at times according to a few Goodreads review, but many compared the story to Cinderella with a twist. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
Once Upon A Time…
In a rustic Mississippi tavern, a beautiful exiled princess was forced to dance for the pleasure of othersâunaware of her regal birthright…and infuriated by a magnificent golden-eyed devil who crossed an ocean to possess her.
From A Far Off Land…
A bold and brazen prince came to America to claim his promised bride. But the spirited vixen spurned his affections while inflaming his royal blood with passion’s fire…impelling virile Stefan Barany to take in sensuous and searing conquest the love Tatiana vowed never to yield.
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How to Beguile a Duke
How to Beguile a Duke by Ally Broadfield is 99c! This is a historical romance with a hero and heroine that seem to be at odds with one another. The hero is in possession of the heroine’s ancestral home and he’ll only relinquish it if she gets an offer of marriage. Of course, he doesn’t expect to fall for her himself. You know the drill. Readers loved the UST (unresolved sexual tension) as the pair dance around each other, while some felt the pacing could be abrupt at times. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
The spirited Catherine Malboeuf has just arrived in England to reclaim her ancestral home, Walsley Manor, and a valuable missing heirloom. Nicholas Adair, the attractive and frustratingly inflexible Duke of Boulstridge, however, is quite unwilling to sell the estate back to Catherine. Unless, of course, she accepts a small wager…
Nick will sell Walsley Manor if–and only if–Catherine secures an offer of marriage from an eligible member of the ton before the end of the London season.
Of course, Nick is certain he’ll win. After all, no proper gentleman would ever marry a woman who conceals a cutlass in her skirts. Yet something about Catherine’s unconventional disposition seems to ignite a need deep inside him. A need that won’t just cost him the wager, but the very heart he swore to never give away…
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The Blades of the Rose Bundle
The Blades of the Rose bundle by Zoe Archer is $9.99 at Amazon and Google: Play and $10.99 at Barnes & Noble! The bundle is four books with lots of adventuring in a historical setting and some steampunk elements. I really enjoyed this series, though I think Warrior might be my favorite. Any other fans of the series in the Bitchery?
The Blades of the Rose Bundle
Warrior
The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain of events that will take him to the ends of the Earth and beyond–where what is real and what is imagined become terribly confused. And frankly, Huntley couldn’t be more pleased. Intrigue, danger, and a beautiful woman in distress–just what he needs.
Raised thousands of miles from England, Thalia Burgess is no typical Victorian lady. A good thing, because a proper lady would have no hope of recovering the priceless magical artifact Thalia is after. Huntley’s assistance might come in handy, though she has to keep him in the dark. But this distractingly handsome soldier isn’t easy to deceive…
Scoundrel
London Harcourt’s father is bent on subjugating the world’s magic to British rule. But since London is a mere female, he hasn’t bothered to tell her so. He’s said only that he’s leading a voyage to the Greek isles. No matter, after a smothering marriage and three years of straitlaced widowhood, London jumps at the opportunity–unfortunately, right into the arms of Bennett Day.
Bennett is a ladies’ man, when he’s not dodging lethal attacks to protect the powers of the ancients from men like London’s father. Sometimes, he’s a ladies’ man even when he is dodging them. But the minute he sees London he knows she will require his full attention. The woman is lovely, brilliant, and the only known speaker of a dialect of ancient Greek that holds the key to calling down the wrath of the gods. Bennett will be risking his life again–but around London, what really worries him is the danger to his heart…
Rebel
Nathan Lesperance is used to being different. He’s the first Native attorney in Vancouver, and welcome neither with white society nor his sometime tribe. Not to mention the powerful wildness he’s always felt inside him, too dangerous to set free. Then he met Astrid Bramfield and saw his like within her piercing eyes. Now, unless she helps him through the harsh terrain and the harsher unknowns of his true abilities, it could very well get him killed…
Astrid has traveled this path before. Once she was a Blade of the Rose, protecting the world’s magic from unscrupulous men, with her husband by her side. But she’s loved and lost, and as a world-class frontierswoman, she knows all about survival. Nathan’s searing gaze and long, lean muscles mean nothing but trouble. Yet something has ignited a forgotten flame inside her: a burning need for adventure, for life–and perhaps even for love…
Stranger
Gemma Murphy has a nose for a story–even if the boys in Chicago’s newsrooms would rather focus on her chest. So when she runs into a handsome man of mystery discussing how to save the world from fancy-pants Brit conspirators, she’s sensing a scoop. Especially when he mentions there’s magic involved. Of course, getting him on the record would be easier if he hadn’t caught her eavesdropping…
Catullus Graves knows what it’s like to be shut out: his ancestors were slaves. And he’s a genius inventor with appropriately eccentric habits, so even people who love him find him a little odd. But after meeting a certain redheaded scribbler, he’s thinking of other types of science. Inconvenient, given that he needs to focus on preventing the end of the world as we know it. But with Gemma’s insatiable curiosity sparking Catullus’s inventive impulses, they might set off something explosive anyway…
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I like Outlander (the book, never seen the show), but I confess to being far more interested in the “modern nurse contending with historic remedies and circumstances to do her job” bit than I am the romance, largely because I love the “fish out of water” or rather “fish into really weird water it doesn’t know how to cope with because WHY WOULD WATER DO THIS” scenario. I read a book once called Household Gods that was about a modern woman who gets sent back to inhabit the body of one of her ancient roman ancestors, and how she adjusts to everything like being unable to drink the water (she accidentally makes “her” kids sick by insisting they drink water instead of wine, not considering how filthy and unfiltered the water is), to finding lead in the common makeup, to what she’s supposed to do on her period, and more, was really fascinating, though it did descend a little too much into rape as a plot point past a certain point.
“How to Beguile a Duke” sounds interesting, but I know I’ll get yanked out of the story every time the heroine’s name is mentioned. Catherine MALBOEUF? Doesn’t that translate to “bad-” or “sick meat”? Yuck. At least it’s not the Duke’s name…
I enjoyed the Blades of the Rose books immensely and wish Zoe Archer were still writing this type of story. Strong but not alpha-hole heroes, and smart take-no-nonsense heroines.
I read “Scoundrel” in the Blades of the Rose series and really enjoyed it… steamy, smart & capable heroine, strong but not jerky hero. It was a lot of fun
How to Beguile a Duke lost me when the description said she “conceals a cutlass in her skirt” ?! A cutlass is a curved sword so how would that work exactly? Sounds silly and dangerous.
Loved the Blades of the Rose series, even though I had to grit my teeth a bit over a 19th C heroine called “London.” As SusanS said above, the heroes were strong alphas, but could still respect the competence and knowledge of the heroines.
I also haven’t seen the Outlander tv series. I know it’s weird, but I don’t own a tv and really don’t miss it. Read the first few books in the series, but quit about the time they went to America. The plots seemed to get more and more convoluted and choppy–as though she was just writing a series of loosely connected scenes. And since I don’t find the US Revolution particularly interesting, I gave up on the series.
Adding my voice to those who loved the Blades of the Rose series. Great mix of adventure, action and romance. If you like the Mummy movies I think you’ll love these books. I really liked both Rebel and Stranger for having heroes who are “other” and heroines who are each strong and intrepid women in different ways.
@BetsyDub: Came here to make that exact comment. Yuck. It put me right off.
@Leah: Household Gods is one of my favorite books. It’s not perfect, but it’s a gritty, no-holds-barred time travel and I love how Nicole learned to cope with her new existence, and how to be appreciative of the life she left behind.
@BetsyDub: I wondered the same, but apparently <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=malboeuf" the name is from the Germanic and means messenger
Grr. Me & HTML = đ
I actually just picked up Rebel at a library booksale since I enjoyed Sweet Revenge. I’m looking forward to it now that so many people say this series is good.
@Lara – the rational part of my brain appreciates your research, and is greatly relieved. Unfortunately, the irrational part occupies the majority of my gray-matter real estate, so I doubt I’ll be reading about Catherine Badmeat beguiling the Duke đ