One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean is $3.99! This is book two in her Rules of Scoundrels series with the first book also being on sale for $1.99. It also has a 4+ star average on GoodReads, and features a scientist heroine who is determined to learn about sexuality before her wedding night, and needs a rogue to help her with said research. The book does deal with cheating as the heroine is soon to be married to someone else, which I know some readers aren’t fond of in their books.
In a previous Books on Sale post, Sarah had this to say:
I wanted to love the heroine, and while I liked her, I struggled with this book for a few of the same reasons that the other 2-star reviewers did, but those who loved this book, loooved this book.
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, the second book in New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean’s award-winning Rules of Scoundrels series, is a lively, romantic adventure, starring a lovable, sometimes bumbling heroine and a sexy, leading man who offer up plenty of steamy sexual tension.
Nearly engaged to Lord Castleton, the always proper and logical Lady Philippa “Pippa” Marbury wants to learn about London’s dark side before she happily heads off to the country and embraces married life. But it’s in London’s shadowy corners where she meets Cross, the brooding, mysterious bookkeeper of The Fallen Angel, London’s most notorious and coveted gaming hell. He’s a rogue in every sense of the word. Or is he?
The heroes of the Rule of Scoundrels books will steal the hearts of their heroines and readers alike!
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Someone to Watch Over Me by Lisa Kleypas is $1.99. This is book one of her Bow Street Runners series, and features a courtesan, amnesia, and a hero who is kind of grumpy. Some readers loved him, others found it difficult to forgive him his assumptions about the heroine. You can also grab the second book for $2.99!
Grant Morgan is one of London’s most eligible and unattainable bachelors. He’s also a powerful member of the Bow Street Runners, and when he’s called to the waterfront late one night to investigate a drowning victim, Grant is stunned to recognize the face of Vivien Rose Duvall, a well-known woman of the night. He’s even more startled when he realizes that she’s alive. With no one to care for her, Grant carries Vivien to his home and revives her, only to learn that she is suffering from amnesia.
Vivien hesitantly accepts her handsome rescuer’s claim that she is his mistress, despite her misgivings about her true identity. Nevertheless, she can’t deny the marks on her throat that prove her near-drowning in the Thames was not an accident, and now she must trust the man who claims her as his paramour, for her life is in danger. As Grant searches for Vivien’s attacker, the two find themselves falling in love, all the while struggling to stay one step ahead of the evil forces that will stop at nothing to see Vivien dead.
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Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey is $1.99! This book has been mentioned by readers several times on the site and comes highly recommended. It features an pirate hero and a heroine who disguises herself as a cabin boy. However, some reviews on Goodreads mention that the hero is a sexist jerk. It has a 4.2-star rating on Goodreads.
Heartsick and desperate to return home to America, Georgina Anderson boards the Maiden Anne disguised as a cabin boy, never dreaming she’ll be forced into intimate servitude at the whim of the ship’s irrepressible captain, James Mallory.
The black sheep of a proud and tempestuous family, the handsome ex-pirate once swore no woman alive could entice him into matrimony. But on the high seas his resolve will be weakened by an unrestrained passion and by the high-spirited beauty whose love of freedom and adventure rivals his own.
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Enterprising Ladies Regency Boxed Set by Kasey Michaels is $2.99! This is a historical romance boxed set that features three of Michaels’ previously published books from the nineties. I believe all three books are full length novels. The set also was released about a week ago, so reviews on Goodreads are sparse. Has anyone read these titles back when they were first published?
From New York Times bestselling romance author Kasey Michaels, a three book Regency Romance box set.
INDISCREET:
Sophie Winstead: A spirited beauty with a mezmerizing figure and a perfect pout, Sophie Winstead had been well schooled in the art of dazzling gentlemen. Now with the London season just beginning, Sophie is determined to become a Lady–even if it means forgoing love to marry for wealth alone. If only her straight-laced sponsor would give her his approval-and stop weakening her resolve with his startlingly blue eyes.Bramwell Seaton: The picture of propriety, he swore he could control the passionate appetites that were his late father’s downfall. But from the moment Bramwell takes charge of the incorrigible yet irresistible Sophie Winstead, he is driven to mad distraction. Suddenly he and his lovely ward are waltzing ever closer toward scandal, and Bramwell must resist her charms to preserve their reputations–and his heart.
ESCAPADE:
Caledonia Johnston lies in wait inside the dark town coach of one Noel Kinsey, rotter, eager to exact justice in the name of her absent brother. It may not be the best plan, but it seems workable, at least until she realizes she has hidden herself inside entirely the wrong coach.Worse, the man now being held at pistol-point is maddening, unflappable, condescending, and quite unimpressed that his would-be assailant holds his life in her hands. In fact, he seems to find her amusing.
Callie escapes the encounter, but not the man, as it falls out that Simon Roxbury also has a bone to pick with Noel Kinsey, and it would seem Miss Johnston and her bloodthirsty plans could serve him very well.
An unholy alliance is struck, the two conspirators battle each other, a matchmaking mama, two interested and not above interfering friends, and a poor soul (who doesn’t look his best in pink), in this delicious tale of revenge gone wrong and romance definitely gone right!
A MASQUERADE IN THE MOONLIGHT:
A brash American, Thomas Joseph Donovan, arrives in London just in timeto meet debutante Marquerite Balfour, young, beautiful, and very much in Donovan’s way. It would appear she has some mischief afoot, mischiefthat could ruin Donovan’s mission to arrange some “deliveries” to hiscountry, hoping to avoid yet another war with England. Bring on a battle of wills, a battle of wits… and an attraction that can’t be denied.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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There’s someone in the world who doesn’t love One Good Earl? Cross and Pippa are my catnip.
Agreed. I read that book at least twice a year. Love them!
‘Someone To Watch Over Me’ definitely came to mind when I was reading the very interesting threads here on slut-shaming, good girls, and ‘bad girls who magically turn out to be inexperienced despite their reputation’. I did NOT love it.
Is it my imagination? Or she is holding of matching knickers on this cover of Someone watch over me ?
I agree with Consuela and Emmylou– I adore One Good Earl! Pippa in particular is my aspirational spirit animal; I love reading about someone who’s so fiercely intelligent and driven but also so endearingly vulnerable. Plus, I love seeing the sort of ‘absent-minded professor trope’ done with a woman as the brainy space cadet.
I also quite like the later books in the series and think Cross and Pippa’s cameos in those books are delightful.
I strongly disliked One Good Earl, mainly because I felt that Pippa was such a fake character. We were told over and over and over that she was smart, but it seemed so patronizing because she didn’t seem to know much of anything, so it seemed more like when you tell a child she’s smart than a character who is actually complex and intelligent. I didn’t feel that the author had done her work to really make the “brilliant” part seem believable, but I read Courtney Milan’s The Countess Conspiracy around the same time and this book may just have suffered a lot in comparison. I found Pippa overly naive. I also didn’t like that she was cheating, didn’t feel like the characters were well developed or believable, and the plot wasn’t really memorable.
Sarah MacLean is very hit or miss for me. I genuinely like about 1/3rd of her books, and find 1/3rd unreadable.
If you have strong feelings about consent and hate any whiff of slut-shaming, the Lisa Kleypas books will not be your thing. The hero lies to the heroine (who has total amnesia) that they are lovers because he wants to sleep with her, and he rationalizes it because she’s a courtesan…y’know, a whore….and a snobby one, who rejected him.
Normally I love Lisa Kleypas but this dude makes some very big, negative assumptions about the heroine and then takes advantage of her memory loss. He’s remorseful when (DUH) many of those assumptions turn out of the wrong, but only because it removes his justification for what he did.
Someone to Watch Over Me was my first Kleypas, but I agree with @Caroline. I had issues with the hero lying to the heroine. I’m glad it didn’t put me off her, because, I mean, Wallflowers…