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Fatal Affair
Fatal Affair by Marie Force is $1.99 at Amazon, Google:Play, and iBooks. It’s $2.99 elsewhere! It’s also the first book in the popular romantic suspense Fatal series. The romance is between a detective and a politician, and the series follows these two characters. A lot of readers say the pairings reminds them of Eve and Roarke from J.D. Robb’s In Death series. However, some said the book dragged in places.
On the morning of the most important vote of Senator John O’Connor’s career he is late—again. His best friend and chief of staff, Nick Cappuano sets off to O’Connor’s apartment expecting to roust him from bed and hoping he is alone. But what Nick finds is that O’Connor, the handsome, amiable Senator from Virginia, has been brutally murdered, and Nick’s world comes crashing down around him. Complicating the disaster, the detective assigned to the case is none other than Sam Holland, Nick’s one-night stand from six years earlier, the woman who broke his heart and haunts his dreams. With six years worth of unfinished business hanging between them and more than a few scores to settle personally and professionally, Nick and Sam set out to find the senator’s killer while trying—and failing—to resist the overwhelming attraction between them that seems to have only grown over the years.
It soon becomes clear that the Senator’s past holds secrets that not only led to his death but now endanger Nick and Sam as well. Working together to find a killer and to rediscover the love they thought they lost long ago, they must put the past behind them and build a future that offers a world of new opportunities for both of them—including an offer from the Virginia Democrats for Nick to finish the last year of John’s term.
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Chasing the Star Garden by Melanie Karsak is $2.99 at Amazon! This is a steampunk romance adventure story with a racing pilot heroine who is Lord Byron’s lover and who has a problem with opium and absinthe. But regardless of the cool-sounding plot, some readers felt it fell flat on execution. You can grab the next book for $2.99 as well.
Chasing the Star Garden is a B.R.A.G. Medallion® recipient for excellence in writing.
Top 10 Finisher: Best Steampunk Novel of 2013, Preditors & Editors Reader’s Poll
An opium-addicted beauty.
An infamous poet living in self-imposed exile.
An ancient treasure about to fall into the wrong hands.London, 1823—It has been one of the worst days in Lily Stargazer’s life. She just lost the London leg of the World Airship Grand Prix. To top it off, a harlequin fleeing from constables shoved a kaleidoscope down her pants, told her to fly to Venice, then threw himself from her airship tower. What’s a girl to do? For Lily, the answer is easy: drink absinthe and smoke opium.
Lily’s lover, Lord Byron, encourages her to make the trip to Venice. Lily soon finds herself at the heart of an ancient mystery which has her running from her past and chasing true love and the stars along the way.
*Adult novel. Due to depictions of drug use and steamy scenes, this novel is best suited for mature readers.
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The Firebrand by Susan Wiggs is $2.99 at Amazon! It’s $3.99 at other vendors. This is an American historical with a secret baby element and a marriage of convenience. This can be read as a standalone, despite being the last book in a trilogy. Readers love the bookshop-owning heroine, but found the pace of the story to be uneven.
Chicago is burning
And Lucy Hathaway is running for her life. As she rushes past a fine hotel engulfed in flames, a wrapped bundle tumbles from a window into her arms. Seconds later the building crumbles—and Lucy is astonished to discover the swaddled blanket contains a baby.
Five years later Lucy walks into Rand Higgins’s bank and knows: the orphan she rescued that day actually belongs to this ruthless financier. Now, to keep the child she’s come to love, she’ll have to give up her hard-won freedom and become his wife. But giving Rand her heart? That, she could never have expected…
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The Golden Spider by Anne Renwick is 99c! This is a steampunk romance with two doctor characters. Readers say there’s a lot of great sexual tension between the hero and heroine, but found some of the medical jargon took them out of the story. It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
London papers scream of dirigible attacks, kraken swarms, and lung-clogging, sulfurous fogs. But a rash of murders barely rates mention.
Lady Amanda is tired of having both her intelligence and her work dismissed.
After blackmailing her way into medical school, she catches the eye of her anatomy professor from the moment she walks into his lecture hall. Is he interested in her? Or only her invention–a clockwork spider that can spin artificial nerves?
Lord Thornton, a prominent neurobiologist, has been betrayed.
Secret government technology has been stolen from his laboratory, and a foreign spy is attempting to perfect it via a grisly procedure… using gypsies as test subjects. The last thing he needs is the distraction of a beautiful–and brilliant–new student, even if her spider could heal a deteriorating personal injury.
Until her device is stolen and used in the latest murder.
Lord Thornton has no option but to bring her into his laboratory as well as the investigation where they must fight their growing, yet forbidden, attraction. Bodies accumulate and fragile bonds are tested as they race across London, trying to catch the spy before it’s too late.
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I read the Golden Spider and the relentless techno-babble was the exact problem I had with it. I still enjoyed it quite a bit, though, and I LOVED the sequel.
Am I the only person who is profoundly disinterested in Lord Byron?
I love Susan Wiggs, but I think that Chicago fire series wasn’t my favorite? Possibly it’s just because one weekend at my MiL’s I read a couple dozen Susan Wiggs books and I should perhaps have paced myself, but she’s an excellent novelist, my MiL has an amazing library, and I have no self control, so.
@Hope, no you are not.
Pardon me while I go one click that Renwick book.
I’ve heard good things about Raybourn’s Silent in the Grave, which is on sale for $1.99 on Amazon. Also, I’m not sure if they’re on sale or just low price (darn you Amazon for comparing to the print list price!) but Tessa Dare seems to have a bunch of books on sale, some a better deal than others.
If you’re interested in MG/YA fantasy, Howl’s Moving Castle is $3.49 and the His Dark Materials trilogy are all on sale for $1.99 at Amazon.
Count me third re: Lord Byron.
I actually like a few of his poems, but loathe the man. Reading about him in any romantic capacity is anathema to me.
However, the other two intrigue me.
Oh, sorry, that was the last two intrigue me. Skipped right over that Marie Force.
I think I got that free on Kindle years ago. Also think it’s still unread…
So many pretty covers!
Fourthing Lord Byron. And Shelley too. Both vain, selfish, cruel men who felt their talents entitled them to… everything.
Has anyone read the Karsak? Are the heroine’s drug and alcohol addictions treated realistically or are they the romantic addictions that exist only in literature?
Lord Byron’s frienemy John Polidori anonymously published a story named “The Vampyre,” written with a thinly-veiled Byron as the titular monster. Polidori’s attempt to mock Byron was a total failure: not only did people assume that “The Vampyre” was actually written by Byron, audiences loved the story’s re-imagination of a vampire as an elegant, charismatic nobleman who seduced women to drink their blood. Lord Byron being a jerk is what gave us sexy vampire romance!
I bought the Stargazer book from an earlier recommendation and didn’t enjoy it as much as I’d hoped. I love steampunk but it wasn’t quite my cup of (clockwork?) tea. I CAN recommend the Deanna Raybourn book – I’ve gone through that entire series, although I didn’t enjoy the last couple books as much.
@ Katze – sorry, from my perspective, that’s just another point against him.
@Katze: And every billionaire and rockstar romance, too. The genre (and fiction in general, for that matter) is full of dickish men because they’re entertaining disasters. Nice people are great in real life, but they’re boring to read about.
I’ve enjoyed all of the Fatal series by Marie Force. The prequel to the series is currently free on Amazon if you want a sample ~ One Night With You: A Fatal Series Prequel Novella.
Howl’s Moving Castle is the BEST. Seriously. Go buy it. Right now.
@ Ren and @ Katze but only in a reflective, musing way; not a disagreeing kind of confrontational way: I think romance and fiction in general reflect society. And I think the reasons for dickish men being so prevalent in storytelling is a more complicated thing than the fact that they are entertaining disasters. But I love that phrase! I don’t like to read about those kind of people. I like to read about nice people, I don’t find them boring. On the contrary, I yawn and roll my eyes when confronted with another narcissist, but a kind person? Someone with empathy and morals? Get me my readin’ glasses!
Seconding Hera’s recommendation.
If you’re a fan of the movie, just a heads up that Miyazaki made a lot of changes. (The book’s better imnsho.)
Yes, if someone wants PG-rated romance, Howl’s Moving Castle (the book, not the movie) would be the first thing I’d think of to recommend. Howl and Sophie have such fabulous personality-chemistry. They’re both kind of unbearable, they fight like cats and dogs, and they’re better people when together.
@Hope I fully agree with you. Byron caused vampire romance? Just no.
I seem to be in the minority, but I thought Howl’s Moving Castle (the book, not the movie) was just meh. Granted, I was in my 40s when I read it for the first time – I think I would have liked it more if I’d read it younger. Still – it’s a great price.