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Silk is for Seduction
Silk is for Seduction by Loretta Chase is $1.99! This book was nominated for a RITA® and our two RITA® Reader Challenge reviewers liked it. Julie gave it an A-: “
I really enjoyed this book. Marcelline and her sisters play pre-Victorian Era hardball with their business competitors and the duke. She’s surviving in a man’s world by her wits and her determination.
And Milena also gave it an A-:
I loved Marcelline to bits. She’s a businesswoman, and her work is not just a decoration she’s ready to drop at the first twitch of a duke’s eyebrows. She loves it – all of the fabulous dress designs the Noirot sisters produce are hers – and she doesn’t want to abandon it, even in exchange for a life of luxury.
Brilliant and ambitious dressmaker Marcelline Noirot is London’s rising star. And who better to benefit from her talent than the worst-dressed lady in the ton, the Duke of Clevedon’s intended bride?
Winning the future duchess’s patronage means prestige and fortune for Marcelline and her sisters. To get to the lady, though, Marcelline must win over Clevedon, whose standards are as high as his morals are…not.
The prize seems well worth the risk — but this time Marcelline’s met her match. Clevedon can design a seduction as irresistible as her dresses; and what begins as a flicker of desire between two of the most passionately stubborn charmers in London soon ignites into a delicious inferno…and a blazing scandal.
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A Change of Fortune
A Change in Fortune by Jen Turano is $1.99! This is an inspirational historical romance set in New York, where a British heroine heads to the States to be the governess to two children. Many readers thought the book was pretty darn funny, though others felt the dialogue was a little unrealistic. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
Lady Eliza Sumner is on a mission. Her fortune was the last thing she had left after losing her father, her fiancé, and her faith. Now, masquerading as Miss Eliza Sumner, governess-at-large, she’s determined to find the man who ran off with her fortune, reclaim the money, and head straight back to London.
Mr. Hamilton Beckett, much to his chagrin, is the catch of the season, and all the eyes of New York society—all the female ones, at least—are on him. He has no plans to marry again, especially since his hands are full keeping his business afloat while raising his two children alone.
Eliza’s hapless attempts to regain her fortune unexpectedly put her right in Hamilton’s path. The discovery of a common nemesis causes them to join forces and, before she knows it, Eliza has a whole retinue of people helping her. Eliza’s determination not to trust anyone weakens when everyone’s antics and bumbling efforts to assist her make her wonder if there might be more important things than her fortune and independence.
When all of Hamilton’s and Eliza’s best-laid plans fall by the wayside, it will take a riot of complications for them to realize that God just might have had a better plan in mind all along.
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Viking’s Prize
Viking’s Prize by Tanya Anne Crosby is $2.99! Violet eyes alert! This was originally published in 1994 and features the ol’ kidnapping trope. Some readers didn’t like the heroine (chief complaint: she cries a lot), but others loved the interaction between all of the characters. Have you read this one?
Cursed with the second sight, Elienor of Baume les Nonnes dared not reveal her prophetic dreams for fear of meeting her mother’s fiery end– though in her dreams she spied the Norsemen who would storm Brouillard castle–and she she saw him, the fierce, golden-haired Viking who would claim her as his prize…
Revenge brought Alarik Trygvason to the shores of the River Seine. Destiny gave him a dark-haired beauty with violet eyes. Beguiled by Elienor’s strange dreams and her fiery spirit he can barely control the passions she arouses, body and soul… but in a land full of strife, he risks everything to love the woman whose dreams hold their future in thrall.
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The Road to Silver Plume
The Road to Silver Plume by Tamara Allen is 99c! This is a M/M American historical romance that features a cross country trip and an enemies to lovers plot. Readers thought this had a great dose of action and adventure, while others felt the actual romance took a backseat. It has a 4.3-star rating on Goodreads.
Secret Service operative Emlyn Strickland may be new to field work, but his talent for identifying counterfeit bank notes, honed over ten years at the Treasury, has given Sing Sing’s population a respectable boost. When counterfeiter August McKee takes illegal advantage of a sinking silver market, his former confederate Darrow Gardiner shares that information with Agent Strickland so they can track down the once-friend who left Darrow to rot in prison.
Promised his freedom in return, Darrow’s after something more. He wants possession of his best work, the flawless fifty dollar plates still in McKee’s hands. And with a little maneuvering, he’ll have the one thing a vengeful McKee may consider fair barter: the Secret Service operative whose testimony sent them both up the river.
It seems an objective within Darrow’s reach after he rescues Emlyn from an assassin, earning a measure of his trust in the process. But on the cross-country journey in search of McKee, another attempt on their lives leaves operative and outlaw stranded miles from Denver, with no one to rely upon but each other. Beset by turncoat agents, angry miners, and the burgeoning threat of a wealthy and powerful McKee, Darrow and Emlyn discover that standing on opposite sides of the law doesn’t safeguard them from the dangers of friendship—or a deeper attraction that may force Darrow to choose between the real and the counterfeit as he’s never done before.
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I have no idea about the book, but I really like the cover on Change of Fortune.
@MirandaB, I was going to post the very same thing. It is lovely, isn’t it?
It makes me actively want to read the book, and I usually don’t read inspirational stuff.
Oh man violet eyes. Do they actually exist in real life? I’ve never understood that.
I first read the title of this post in my inbox as “M/M Romance Vikings”. Commas make such a difference.
Tamara Allen has a new book out? Why did I not know this? Love her books
@jw: Elizabeth Taylor….. And I used to know a woman who had purple eyes. Not as common IRL as in fiction, but real.
@jw Wiki says that true violet eyes only occur due to albinsim, but some people with extremely blue eyes (like Liz Taylor) can appear to have purple eyes.
There’s the whole ‘Alexandria’s Genesis’ thing, which purports to be a genetic condition causing violet eyes (among other stuff) but it’s an internet myth and not actually a real thing.
Oh no, I was about to grab Change of Fortune based on the cover alone, I hadn’t realized that it was an inspirational 🙁 bummer!
Also, I now want a book of M/M Romance Vikings.
If you guys want m/m Vikings, Harper Fox’s Brothers of the Wild North Sea is a Viking/Priest romance that’s really good.
I feel like inspirationals should be marked with a huge ‘I’ (for ‘inspirational’ or for ‘irritating’, depending on your mileage). I’m still bitter about working my way two-thirds of the way through a historical romance to find all the early nineteenth-century characters suddenly started talking very anachronistically about truly finding their Lord and Saviour in modern American phrasing. What?! Write about them finding inspiration in the raw, wild, new Methodist movement if you want to, but stop violating all the laws of historical fiction. And go read some Elizabeth Gaskell if you want to get an idea about how nineteenth century Christians talked.
Why the fuck is religious called “inspirational?” Shouldn’t the books where she’s been ostracized over her hymen and yet managed to not go postal on the ton be called inspirational?
I have the couch on the cover of Change In Fortune! Mine is purple, not red, but I’m 99% sure it’s the same couch (which I was drawn to because it looked like something a heroine would fling herself on in times of trouble or interesting sex).
Probably not going to buy the book because I’m not really in to Inspirational romances, but without the Inspiration that book sounds like something that would be up my alley (as a nanny who often wears that expression while sitting on that couch).