Temptations of a Wallflower
RECOMMENDED: Temptations of a Wallflower by Eva Leigh is $1.99 at Amazon! Maybe there will be some price-matching later in the day! Elyse read this one and gave it an A-:
Temptations of a Wallflower is very very sexy (people talking openly about sex and finding what works for them together is sexy) and it’s also very smart. There were a few things I still wanted, though. Overall, I found the third book in the Wicked Quills of London series to be eminently readable and very hot, and I highly recommend it.
Eva Leigh’s deliciously sexy Wicked Quills of London series continues as a Lady’s secret career writing erotic fiction is jeopardized by real-life romance . . .
In society circles she’s known as the Watching Wallflower—shy, quiet, and certainly never scandalous. Yet beneath Lady Sarah Frampton’s demure façade hides the mind of The Lady of Dubious Quality, author of the most titillating erotic fiction the ton has ever seen. Sarah knows discovery would lead to her ruin, but marriage—to a vicar, no less—could help protect her from slander. An especially tempting option when the clergyman in question is the handsome, intriguing Jeremy Cleland.
Tasked with unmasking London’s most scandalous author by his powerful family, Jeremy has no idea that his beautiful, innocent bride is the very woman he seeks to destroy. His mission must remain a secret, even from the new wife who stirs his deepest longings. Yet when the truth comes to light, Sarah and Jeremy’s newfound love will be tested. Will Sarah’s secret identity tear them apart or will the temptations of his wallflower wife prove too wicked to resist?
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Along Came Love by Tracey Livesay is $1.99! This book was featured in a previous Hide Your Wallet post. Livesay writes smart, competent characters, but some reviewers that the heroine was a bit too Manic Pixie Dream Girl for them. Anyone interested?
When a silly, impulsive decision lands free-spirited India Shaw behind bars in San Francisco, she has no choice but to call the only person she knows in the unfamiliar city—the very man she abandoned after a steamy two-day fling. The fact that she’s pregnant with his child is something she’d rather not divulge.
Tech executive Michael Black never thought he’d hear from the quirky beauty after she left his bed four months ago, much less be called upon to post bail. He’s got his hands full with a corporate merger that could make or break his career, but his honorable nature—and an overwhelming need to see her again—means he can’t just leave her in jail. And when India reveals the truth about her pregnancy, Mike insists she stay with him until the baby is born.
India doesn’t want to depend on him for anything, but their constant proximity stirs up feelings she can’t ignore. She’s never desired a family before and she knows a future with Mike isn’t possible . . . but then along came love to shake up all her plans.
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The Devious Dr. Jekyll by Viola Carr is $1.99 at select vendors! We had a guest review of this book on the site and the review gave it a B+ grade:
I decided to give this book a B+, because any book that can make me feel so emotionally invested in the characters is obviously doing a good job. I wanted to scream at the characters, but I kept reading because Carr had her hooks in my heart and I needed to know how things would work out. The world she creates is a rich one, but one that you’re able to pick up and understand as you read without having to have any of those tiresome ‘context/background’ passages. The mystery in the story, the crimes, the motives, were all so engaging and the denouement is a stabbing, plot-twist knife to the heart, but with a neat, satisfying bow around the knife’s handle.
Dr. Eliza Jekyll, heroine of the electrifying The Diabolical Miss Hyde—an edgy steampunk retelling of the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—investigates a bizarre murder case in an alternate Victorian London while battling her treacherous secret half: Lizzie Hyde.
Solving the infamous Chopper case has helped crime scene physician Dr. Eliza Jekyll establish her fledgling career in the chauvinistic world of Victorian law enforcement. But the scrutiny that comes with her newfound fame is unwelcome for a woman with a diabolical secret. And there is the mercurial Royal Society agent and wolf man Remy Lafayette. Does he want to marry her, eat her, or burn her at the stake? Though Eliza is uncertain about Remy, her dark and jealous shadow self, Lizzie, wants to steal the magnetic and persistent agent, and usurp Eliza’s life.
It’s impossible to push Remy away when he tempts her with the one thing she can’t resist: a bizarre crime. The search for a bloodthirsty ritual torturer dubbed the Pentacle Killer draws them into a terrifying world of spies, art thieves, and evil alchemy, where the price of immortality is madness?or damnation—and only Lizzie’s dark ingenuity can help Eliza survive.
As Eliza and Remy race to thwart a foul conspiracy involving the sorcerous French, they must also overcome a sinister enemy who is all too close: the vengeful Lizzie, determined to dispose of Eliza for good.
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The Billionaire Next Door by Jessica Lemmon is $1.99! I really enjoy this series and I had a soft spot for this book because it has a man-bunned hero and a troublesome Great Dane. My family used to have a Great Dane named Loki and he was so precious. However, some of the reviews mentioned an uneven pacing. It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
Can’t Buy Me Love
It’s Tag Crane’s job to be the life of the party. Traveling from one exotic locale to another is just part of running the luxurious Crane Hotel empire. But even paradise isn’t perfect. Devising a new business strategy is keeping Tag up at night-and so is the Great Dane barking at all hours in the apartment below his. To muzzle the problem, Tag charges downstairs… right into the most beautiful, blond distraction he’s ever seen.
Dog-sitting by day, bartending by night. It’s not exactly the life Rachel Foster dreamed of. But when Tag Crane rushes in, all mountain-man shoulders and obscenely sexy smile, needing her help for the Crane Hotels, it’s a fantasy come true. What’s the harm in a fun no-strings fling? Only a fool would give her heart to a billionaire player like Tag-until suddenly the one man who can’t be caught is the one flirting with forever…
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My problem with the Carr books is that I think Lizzie is the more likeable character. I realize the outcome of the series needs to be a reintegration of the two sides, but until that happens, I’m rooting for Lizzie.
I wish I could say what it is that bugs me a bit about billionaire romances, especially those that advertise themselves as such so heavily and obviously. I know a lot of the fun of romance novels lies in wish fulfillment, and aside from how appealing financial stability is, it makes things a lot easier on the writer when they can have otherwise impossible scenarios because one character is packed with cash. And I suppose it’s not much different from all those duke and baron themed novels. Might just be fatigue from having so many books with scorchingly handsome, rich heroes. Still feels a bit… shallow? Superficial? Eh. I’m picking.
@Dora. I can’t stand romance novels with billionaire heroes right now. I wasn’t a fan before, but these days I just want to punch them,
I wanted to mention a lovely book that’s currently on sale called Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson. It’s not specifically a romance but the story is about a 60 YO retired British Army major, living in a small village who has been rather isolated since the death of his wife. He starts an unlikely friendship with a widowed Pakistani shopkeeper and the book explores their growing closeness and some of the cultural difficulties they face because of it in their little corner of the world. I loved the story and it gets bonus points in my view because it depicts a lovely and realistic romance between two mature characters.
My difficulty with billionaire heroes is knowing how unlikely it is for a woman to meet and have a personal, healthy, romantic relationship with a billionaire. My ability to suspend belief and enjoy the story is stretched to the max before I even open the book.
I suspect this is the reason I prefer historical romance. I have no personal experience of life in the 1800s, so when the Duke marries the housekeeper it doesn’t feel implausible.
I bought Along Came Love after reading the first book in the series. I quite liked it and I appreciated the fact that the book allowed a Black woman to be a free spirited individual. I think her personality was sufficiently explained by her background so I didn’t have a problem with it.
Lining up behind Bea..
I love Tracy Livesay’s books!
Yes, Bea!!! I fell in love with the Major by page 10. This is on my keeper shelf, and since I have nothing of burning importance on the TBR, it may be time for a reread.
“Billionaire sex” is what totally turned me off books with billionaires as the heroes. Once the rich guy targets the girl, he has his way with her anywhere, and he is boinking her when she is supposed to be at work or in an inappropriate place. Or both. Having worked in an office full of women in the past, the billionaire’s girl would soon be given the coldest shoulder and the heinous assignments, if not worse, in real life.
I loved Temptations of a Wallflower! First, no billionaires, and second, the scenes where Lady Sarah and Jeremy each figure out the other’s secret.
This has been a hard couple days for my resolution to add less to my tbr list. I picked up all of these minus the billionaire one (I’m with Dora and Bea on that trope) plus A Change of Heart by Sonali Dev and The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi (both on sale at Amazon for $2.99). The latter I started on audio back when I still had a Scribd subscription and liked it, but it was a little too complex for me to listen to while doing other things so I decided I’d just watch for it to go on sale on ebook. It’s the first in a ya fantasy that has Indian mythology mixed into it.
I also don’t like the billionaire thing – even though I’ll read about dukes at the drop of a hat.
For me, I think it’s the over-the-top Alpha personality that tends to come along with those books. It is true, that to be a self-made billionaire by 20-something (which they all seem to be), you probably need to be somewhat of a jerk. And I’ve never come across a billionaire book where I didn’t find the hero wasn’t obnoxious. I don’t seem to run across the same personality type as often with dukes & earls & such.
I really enjoyed ALONG CAME LOVE, but nearly didn’t make it past that “silly, impulsive” beginning. The heroine is seriously outraged: the doorman at her absent sister’s apartment building won’t let her into the apartment because (a) he’s never seen her before and (b) her name isn’t on the list of who can enter. So after (consequence of not a spoiler), she’s arrested.
Who behaves that way? I understand setting up for the reunion between the main characters, but this was completely implausible. I was on the side of the doorman doing his job, as he should, for crying out loud. Once past that, the book was lovely–billionaire romance notwithstanding–and I will read the next.
Ooh, Temptations of a wallflower is also £1.99 on amazon UK ( Books on sale on amazon US are not always on sale on the
amazo UK). Best of all, this was on my TBR list!