Any Duchess Will Do
RECOMMENDED: Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare is $1.99! This is the fourth book in the Spindle Cove series. It was also a Sizzling Book Club pick with Sarah saying, “This is a delightful historical romance, will familiar tropes explored in new ways.”
It also received an A grade during the 2014 RITA® Reader Challenge from Reader Nerdalisque:
The characters – main and supporting – are well-developed and appealing. The plot is familiar, but Dare delivers it in a way that makes it fresh. Events move along at a good pace. There’s an economy to the plot: each scene advances the story with no excess. The writing is lovely – creative, descriptive, and often laugh-out-loud funny (the number of things I highlighted is ridiculous). And the sexytimes are quite capable of causing “flutterings,” to quote one conversation between the hero and heroine.
What’s a duke to do, when the girl who’s perfectly wrong becomes the woman he can’t live without?
Griffin York, the Duke of Halford, has no desire to wed this season–or any season–but his diabolical mother abducts him to “Spinster Cove” and insists he select a bride from the ladies in residence. Griff decides to teach her a lesson that will end the marriage debate forever. He chooses the serving girl.
Overworked and struggling, Pauline Simms doesn’t dream about dukes. All she wants is to hang up her barmaid apron and open a bookshop. That dream becomes a possibility when an arrogant, sinfully attractive duke offers her a small fortune for a week’s employment. Her duties are simple: submit to his mother’s “duchess training”… and fail miserably.
But in London, Pauline isn’t a miserable failure. She’s a brave, quick-witted, beguiling failure–a woman who ignites Griff’s desire and soothes the darkness in his soul. Keeping Pauline by his side won’t be easy. Even if Society could accept a serving girl duchess–can a roguish duke convince a serving girl to trust him with her heart?
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Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks is $1.99! This is a historical romance with (you guessed it) a Scottish hero! The heroine is deaf and in an arranged marriage. Some readers thought the conflict was resolved rather easily, but many loved the romance between the hero and heroine. It has a 4.2-star rating on Goodreads.
Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her “touched.” Beautiful, fey, with a level, intent gaze, she doesn’t speak. No one, not even her family, knows that she cannot hear. Content with her life of seclusion, Eveline has taught herself to read lips and allows the outside world to view her as daft. But when an arranged marriage into a rival clan makes Graeme Montgomery her husband, Eveline accepts her duty—unprepared for the delights to come. Graeme is a rugged warrior with a voice so deep and powerful that his new bride can hear it, and hands and kisses so tender and skilled that he stirs her deepest passions.
Graeme is intrigued by the mysterious Eveline, whose silent lips are ripe with temptation and whose bright, intelligent eyes can see into his soul. As intimacy deepens, he learns her secret. But when clan rivalries and dark deeds threaten the wife he has only begun to cherish, the Scottish warrior will move heaven and earth to save the woman who has awakened his heart to the beautiful song of a rare and magical love.
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Under Her Skin by Susan Mallery is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance with a fake relationship in the upper echelons of Texas high society. Some felt that the story’s “villain” was a little over the top and unnecessary, while others recommend this book for a sweet, fluffy read! It has 4-star rating on Goodreads.
Heiress Engaged To Marry Playboy!
Lexi Titan can just see the headlines. All of Titanville will be buzzing. Not that she has any other choice. Faced with exactly thirty days to come up with two million dollars, she is out of options. Marry Cruz Rodriguez or lose everything — the successful day spa she built herself, her tyrant of a father’s respect. And the long-standing competition with her sisters for the family business.
Cruz has money, success, smoldering good looks — everything but the blue blood needed to become a true member of Texas society. If Lexi agrees to be his fiancée for six months, lending him her famous father’s influence and connections, he’ll hand her a check on the spot. And in six months they’ll go their separate ways.
But neither one is prepared for their long-ago shared passion to throw a wrench into what would seem to be the perfect deal..
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RECOMMENDED: Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta is $1.99! In Sarah’s podcast interview with Kat from Bookthingo, Kat mentioned how much she loves Melina Marchetta. I can also vouch for the Marchetta love. This is a contemporary YA novel and has won several awards, including the Michael L. Printz Award in 2009.
“What do you want from me?” he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.
Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the reluctant leader of her boarding school dorm, there isn’t a lot of time for introspection. And while Hannah, the closest adult Taylor has to family, has disappeared, Jonah Griggs is back in town, moody stares and all.
In this absorbing story by Melina Marchetta, nothing is as it seems and every clue leads to more questions as Taylor tries to work out the connection between her mother dumping her, Hannah finding her then and her sudden departure now, a mysterious stranger who once whispered something in her ear, a boy in her dreams, five kids who lived on Jellicoe Road eighteen years ago, and the maddening and magnetic Jonah Griggs, who knows her better than she thinks he does. If Taylor can put together the pieces of her past, she might just be able to change her future.
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Okay, wait, so in “Seduce a Scot”, she can’t hear anything her entire life, but somehow she can hear him?
Or is this just embellishment for the backcover?
@Olivia, she can “hear” his deep voice, not that she can hear actual words that he says.
Rather hope that since Never Seduce a Scot is on sell that means the third in that series might finally be in the works.
I liked Never Seduce a Scot ( but the title is nonsensical).
Re: the blurb saying she can hear him–not really. She basically can feel the vibration of a deep tone (like when you feel base even when you can’t hear the music). He must have a deep voice. But she can’t hear. It’s just a vibration-effect and a very minor one, but for her even the slightest sensation is profound. There’s no miracle return to hearing. She’s permanently deaf. No magic fix.
She wasn’t deaf from birth though, but lost her hearing as an adolescent/adult. She kept it a secret and allowed herself to be assumed ‘daft’ for reasons.
I appreciated the hero thinking that if she’s ‘daft’ then she’s not competent to form consent and so keeps his hands to himself even after marriage. Imagine a hero worried about informed consent.
Oh and by ‘reasons’ I meant she had actual reasons which are explained in the story. Her family thinks a head injury and a fever caused by exposure mentally compromised her, but didn’t. She allows this mistaken belief because of reasons that are explained in the book.
I really enjoyed the Maya Banks one… it’s the kind of nonsense Highland historical that I love. The deaf aspect is actually handled pretty well, considering it’s intrinsically a pretty crazysauce trope.
I tried with the scullery-maid-bookshop-yearning duchess, I did, but it all strained credulity far too much. I think I’d have found it easier if she were a heroine who invented electricity or something similarly unlikely.
I’m another who thinks that Melina Marchetta’s books are awesome!