The Courtesan Duchess
RECOMMENDED: The Courtesan Duchess by Joanna Shupe is $1.99 at Amazon and other select vendors! This is a historical romance where the couple is married, but estranged. This is also the first book in the Wicked Deceptions series, which Redheadedgirl loved! She mentioned this book on a previous Whatcha Reading post and called the book “delightfully crazy.” And, if you want more Shupe, the first two books in her New York-set Knickerbocker Club series are also on sale!
How to seduce an estranged husband—and banish debt!—in four wickedly improper, shockingly pleasurable steps…
1. Learn the most intimate secrets of London’s leading courtesan.
2. Pretend to be a courtesan yourself, using the name Juliet Leighton.
3. Travel to Venice and locate said husband.
4. Seduce husband, conceive an heir, and voilà, your future is secure!For Julia, the Duchess of Colton, such a ruse promises to be foolproof. After all, her husband has not bothered to lay eyes on her in eight years, since their hasty wedding day when she was only sixteen. But what begins as a tempestuous flirtation escalates into full-blown passion—and the feeling is mutual. Could the man the Courtesan Duchess married actually turn out to be the love of her life?
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Once a Soldier by Mary Jo Putney is $1.99! This is also a limited vendor sale. Where the heck is the price-matching? Readers loved the strong heroine and how she paired well with the hero, but others found a bulk of the book to be dull and lacking any momentum. This is the first book in the Rogues Redeemed series. If you like Mary Jo Putney, a couple other titles are available for $1.99!
As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in the small mountain stronghold of San Gabriel and meets her.
Knowing herself to be too tall, strong, and unconventional to appeal to a man, Athena Markham has always gloried in her independence. But for the first time in her life, she finds a man who might be her match.
Two of a kind, too brave for their own good, Athena and Will vow to do whatever it takes to vanquish San Gabriel’s enemies. For neither will back down from death, and only together can they find happiness and a love deeper than any they’d dared imagine…
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Some Like It Wicked by Alexandra Ivy is either 99c or $2.99 depending on where you buy. It’s the first book in the Hellion’s Den series and features a fake relationship element. Ivy also has a few other historicals on sale! Some readers say it’s a bit like a gender-flipped historical retelling of the 80s movie Can’t Buy Me Love. However, other readers found it a bit slow.
A successful businesswoman, Miss Jane Middleton goes to London in search of a husband—and finds herself virtually ignored by the ton. But she soon concocts a daring proposition: she will pay notorious rake “Hellion” Caulfield to strike up a flirtation with her, thus bringing her to the attention of Society’s eligible gentlemen. The last thing she expects is a deliciously skillful seduction…
The toast of the ton, charismatic Hellion has eluded marriage for years. But when Jane bursts into his life with her outrageous scheme, her provocative figure, and her captivating eyes, Hellion is stunned to realize that his jaded interest is piqued—and his pursuit of her feels all too real. Has the ultimate bachelor finally found his match—between the sheets and beyond?
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Plaid Tidings by Mia Marlowe is 99c! This is the first in the Spirit of the Highlands series; the other books are also on sale! If you’re still in the holiday spirit, this is a Christmas romance with a marriage of convenience plot. It was also nominated for a RITA in 2014. One RITA® Reader Challenge reviewer gave it a C, as there was way too much going on. But another reviewer gave it an A because of the cozy romance and magical, snowy setting.
Christmas in the Highlands…
Not any dashing English lord’s idea of a good time. But now that Lord Alexander Mallory has won a Scottish estate in a hand of cards, he is the unlikely laird of the wild, snowy Bonniebroch. Worse yet, the ancient pile of stones comes with a betrothal. To a fiery red-headed virgin. And a curse.
Alex will have his hands full honoring the first, seducing the second and breaking the third…all by Twelfth Night.
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I’m going to need some gender-flipped historical Can’t Buy Me Love when I’m done doing my addiction-treatment research. (Maybe before I’m done because MY GOD it’s so sad and frustrating.)
I scooped up all the Joanna Shupe books. I’m more than a little excited about reading a series set in the Gilded Age in NYC.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is on sale for 1.99 at Amazon. It is an epistolary novel and one of my favorites.
Fiona’s Flame by Rachel Herron is free right now. It’s one of her Cypress Hollow Knitting books, I’ve read a few and they were very good (and also at the time *very expensive*! They seem to have dropped quite a bit in price)
I also saw If I Was Your Girl, which was mentioned in the Transgender recs the other day, is on sale for $2.99
I second Anne’s suggestion The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is such a wonderful comfort read.
Amazon is having a NYT bestseller’s daily deal, with up to 80% off on kindle titles. https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=lp_6165845011_gbps_tit_s-3_bb19_ccb88e77?rh=i%3Adigital-text%2Cn%3A6165845011%2Cn%3A6165845011&ie=UTF8&smid=A6OCI3UNMG95Z&node=6165845011&;=