Sweet Disorder
Sweet Disorder by Rose Lerner is 99c! This is a unique historical featuring the son of an earl, and a heroine who has one piece of power: two votes. She can’t cast them (pesky ovaries) but her husband can, so her hand in marriage makes her a political pawn. This book has a 3.7-star average.
Nick Dymond enjoyed the rough-and-tumble military life until a bullet to the leg sent him home to his emotionally distant, politically obsessed family. For months, he’s lived alone with his depression, blockaded in his lodgings.
But with his younger brother desperate to win the local election, Nick has a new set of marching orders: dust off the legendary family charm and maneuver the beautiful Phoebe Sparks into a politically advantageous marriage.
One marriage was enough for Phoebe. Under her town’s by-laws, though, she owns a vote that only a husband can cast. Much as she would love to simply ignore the unappetizing matrimonial candidate pushed at her by the handsome earl’s son, she can’t. Her teenage sister is pregnant, and Phoebe’s last-ditch defense against her sister’s ruin is her vote–and her hand.
Nick and Phoebe soon realize the only match their hearts will accept is the one society will not allow. But as election intrigue turns dark, they’ll have to cast the cruelest vote of all: loyalty…or love.
Warning: Contains elections, confections, and a number of erections.
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If I Only Had a Duke by Lenora Bell is $1.99! This is the second book in The Disgraceful Dukes series. It’s also a road trip romance. Readers said the hero and heroine have some really great chemistry, but there were too many side plots going on. Have you read this?
After three failed seasons and a disastrous jilting, Lady Dorothea Beaumont has had more than enough of her family’s scheming. She won’t domesticate a duke, entangle an earl, or vie for a viscount. She will quietly exit to her aunt’s Irish estate for a life of blissful freedom. Until an arrogant, sinfully handsome duke singles her out for a waltz, making Thea the most popular belle of the season.
The duke ruined her plans and he’ll just have to fix them.
Garrett, Duke of Osborne, is far too heartless for debutantes or marriage—he uses dalliances and public spectacle to distract from his real purpose: finding the man who destroyed his family. When his search leads to Ireland, the last thing he needs is the determined, achingly innocent Thea, who arrives in the dead of night demanding he escort her to her aunt. His foolish agreement may prove his undoing. The road to the Emerald Isle is fraught with unforeseen dangers, but the greatest peril of all might just be discovering that he has a heart . . . and he’s losing it to Thea.
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True Spies by Shana Galen is $2.99! This is a historical romance inspired by the movie True Lies, in which the hero leads a double life as a spy without his family’s knowledge. The romance between the hero and heroine and the ups and downs of their married life was a high point for readers. But some couldn’t connect with the characters, finding them childish and frustrating.
He’s Getting Tired of Deception…
Baron Winslow Keating is honor-bound to finish one last mission as an elite spy for the Barbican group even though he just wants to go home and be with his family. But after years of secrecy and absence, his daughters hardly know him, and his wife has given up on him.
She Wants to Try a Little Intrigue…
Lady Elinor has had enough of domestic boredom. She contemplates an affair with a rakish spy, only to discover a world of intrigue and treachery that she never knew existed. Even more shocking, her neglectful husband is suddenly very attentive—quite the jealous type—and apparently there is much more to him than she ever knew.
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Scandalous Sisters Boxed Set by Rose Gordon is 99c at Amazon! This is a set that features 3 full-length American historical romances. The three heroines of the romances are all sisters hoping to find their HEA. The set doesn’t have many reviews, but readers say each romance is better than the one before it.
For a limited time only get all three full-length books in the Scandalous Sisters Series–Intentions of the Earl, Liberty for Paul, To Win His Wayward Wife
Intentions of the Earl—Andrew Black a penniless earl makes a pact to ruin Brooke Banks, an American hoyden, never suspecting for a moment he’ll lose his heart along the way…
Liberty for Paul—Liberty Banks, an American vicar’s daughter, loves propriety almost as much as she hates Paul Grimes, the man her father is mentoring, and will go to any length she sees fit to see the improper man out the door and out of her life. But when she’s forced to marry him, she’ll learn there’s a lot more to life, love and this man than she originally thought.
To Win His Wayward Wife—A gentleman who’s spent the last five years pining for the love of his life will get his second chance: marriage to the beautiful, witty, but rather withdrawn Madison Banks. The only problem? She has no interest in him.
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I just loooooove that Sweet Disorder cover.
I was being so thrifty this month, but that Lenora Bell opens with a socially awkward art geek exchanging letters with an unappreciative, uncooperative duke, which is so much more interesting than the book description makes it out to be.
*shrugs*
*spends*
*cackles*
Sweet Disorder is wonderful; plus-size heroine and somewhat socially awkward hero who fall for each other, but it’s a slow-burn, at least in terms of the two of them admiring/thinking about the other before anything physical happens. Highly recommend it!
I echo Sharon on Sweet Disorder. No hurried courtship there but I really loved the story. Rose Lerner is one of my favorites.
If I Only Had a Duke was a good read, too. Nothing like a road trip!
I love Sweet Disorder. Not only is Phoebe plus sized, she’s a strong, take-no-nonsense kind of heroine, and her hero, Nick adores her curves and her strong personality.
I read Sweet Disorder last year and the only reason I’m able to recall it now is the description given here.
Thinking perhaps I may not be the intended audience.
“Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged” by Ayisha Malik is $1.02 for Kindle.
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is only twenty-five cents. I think another Parable (Of the Talents?) is also the same price but I’m not 100% sure.
I love when I go to one-click a book and see that I’ve already purchased it. Day made!
I had to struggle to finish ‘Sweet Disorder’. Not my cup of tea at all, unfortunately.
Another plug for Sweet Disorder and Rose Lerner in general! It’s intricate and witty and the heroine writes Improving Tales for Young People but embroiders a gory scene from her favorite Gothic novel. It’s the first of a series, too.
Nick Dymond enjoyed the rough-and-tumble military life until a bullet to the leg sent him home to his emotionally distant, politically obsessed family
A bullet to the leg? Not an arrow to the knee?
It is possible I have been playing too much Skyrim.
Too much Skyrim? There is no such thing!
I loved Sweet Disorder! Historical political storyline, thoughtful mixed-class relationship, fabulous fat heroine, it’s all pretty great. There’s even a subplot involving a bakery that forced me to make and eat lemon tarts while I was reading it. I was just thinking about that book recently and couldn’t remember the name. I think I’ll add his to my re-read list.
@kitkat and Tam, I also had a hard time getting through Sweet Disorder and the next book was a DNF for me. I know they’re really loved by a lot of folks but personally I was not pulled into the story and I didn’t find the main characters in either of Ms. Lerner’s books particularly likable. I want to like them so much and every interview I’ve read with the author she seems like such a cool person but I don’t think I’ll bother trying any of her books in the future. I always feel a bit like I’m missing something when I don’t like the books that other readers are really excited about.
“Sweet Disorder” was enjoyable, but “Listen to the Moon” was amazing. Less cutesy, sex positive, and really lovely. Rose Lerner keeps getting better and better. If you weren’t that into her first few books, I suggest trying her novella in “Gambled Away” or “Listen to the Moon.”
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