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Cotillion
Cotillion by Georgette Heyer is $2.51 at Amazon and $2.99 elsewhere! It’s also part of a huge $2.99 Heyer sale in honor of her birthday! This has a fake relationship trope and was recently the inspiration for a Rec League on unassuming heroes. Readers who love beta heroes and low-key, relaxed romances might love this one. However, some readers mention that the first quarter of the book takes some effort to get through.
Kitty Charing can inherit a fortune from her irascible great-uncle Matthew when she marries one of her cousins. Kitty is not wholly averse, if the right nephew proposes. Unfortunately, Kitty has set her heart on Jack Westruther, a confirmed rake.
To make him jealous and to see a little more of the world, Kitty convinces cousin Freddy Standen to pose as her fiance. In London with his family, she hopes to render the elusive Jack madly jealous.
New friends embroil her in their romantic troubles, sprinkling witty banter with Parisian phrases. Her French cousin, Camille, a professional gambler, has won the heart of Olivia, in turn the object of Jack’s dishonorable intentions. Doltish cousin Lord Dolphinton has fallen for a merchant’s daughter in conflict with his mother. Kitty herself wonders who is really right for her.
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Working Stiff
Working Stiff by Rachel Caine is $2.99! This is the first book in The Revivalist urban fantasy series where a funeral director heroine discovers her boss is turning the dead into zombies. Books one in Caine’s Weather Warden and Outcast urban fantasy series are also on sale, if you’re looking for new series to start. Readers found the plot to be really original, but wanted the heroine to be more active and aggressive in dealing with issues.
Bryn Davis knows working at Fairview Mortuary isn’t the most glamorous career choice, but at least it offers stable employment–until she discovers her bosses using a drug that resurrects the clientele as part of an extortion racket. Now, Bryn faces being terminated–literally, and with extreme prejudice.
With the help of corporate double-agent Patrick McCallister, Bryn has a chance to take down the bigger problem–pharmaceutical company Pharmadene, which treats death as the ultimate corporate loyalty program. She’d better do it fast, before she becomes a zombie slave–a real working stiff. She’d be better off dead…
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The Rancher’s Surrender
The Rancher’s Surrender by Jill Shalvis is $1.99! This is the first book in The Heirs to the Triple M contemporary western series. This was originally published in 1999. Readers enjoyed the sisterly bond in the book, but had some difficulties with heroine’s selfishness. Have you read this one?
In the first book of New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis’s classic series, The Heirs to the Triple M, three women practically raised as sisters discover one of them has inherited a ranch. But which one?
Zoe Martin vowed not to let the Triple M ranch slip into Ty Jackson’s hands. Although his smooth charm brought most women to their knees, Zoe didn’t trust him. After all, he’d wanted the ranch for himself, and Zoe wasn’t about to let him take what could be her only chance for a true home.
It’s obvious to Ty that Zoe needs help—the woman is a complete greenhorn. But working side by side with Zoe is dangerous. She makes him feel strong and wild and crazy. Crazy enough, maybe, to offer her the home she craves…
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The Turncoat
The Turncoat by Donna Thorland is $2.99! This is an American historical romance set during the Revolutionary War. Some readers thought this was historical fiction rather than historical romance and had some things to say about the amount of sexytimes in the book. However, others enjoyed the great balance of action combined with the romance.
They are lovers on opposite sides of a brutal war, with everything at stake and no possibility of retreat. They can trust no one—especially not each other.
Major Lord Peter Tremayne is the last man rebel bluestocking Kate Grey should fall in love with, but when the handsome British viscount commandeers her home, Kate throws caution to the wind and responds to his seduction. She is on the verge of surrender when a spy in her own household seizes the opportunity to steal the military dispatches Tremayne carries, ensuring his disgrace—and implicating Kate in high treason. Painfully awakened to the risks of war, Kate determines to put duty ahead of desire, and offers General Washington her services as an undercover agent in the City of Brotherly Love.
Months later, having narrowly escaped court martial and hanging, Tremayne returns to decadent, British-occupied Philadelphia with no stomach for his current assignment—to capture the woman he believes betrayed him. Nor does he relish the glittering entertainments being held for General Howe’s idle officers. Worse, the glamorous woman in the midst of this social whirl, the fiancée of his own dissolute cousin, is none other than Kate Grey herself. And so begins their dangerous dance, between passion and patriotism, between certain death and the promise of a brave new future together.
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I loved The Turncoat! Maybe a little too much plot for the length, but Kate Grey is a great heroine, Peter is worthy of her, the secondary characters are amazing (including an appearance by Hamilton!), there are realistic and historical-event type obstacles to the HEA (much more satisfying than ‘the hero has a backstory where women are fridged or demonized so now he can’t believe in love’ or ‘if you idiots had ONE honest conversation’), etc. etc.
The “romance” in Working Stiff was problematic for me. It’s not for me to judge if someone wants to have sex with a zombie, but when that someone controls the supply of drugs that keep the zombie alive, I can’t get past the conflict of interests, abuse of power, and consent stuff. As I remember it, all that developed right at the end of the book, so there was an abrupt shift from “that was fun” to “welp, won’t be reading any more of these.”
The first few Weather Warden books were awesome, though. (And it may be just my series fatigue that perceives waning quality toward the end.) Joanne and DAVID!!!! also had power and consent issues (djinn and subterfuge, so obviously), but the questions of free will and abuse were constantly on page, and Jo and DAVID!!!! (unlike the remaining cast of characters) were obviously trying to do right by each other despite circumstances making that really difficult and sometimes impossible.
Also, in case you missed my subtle hints, I have a fondness for DAVID!!!! 😀
I wish I could buy ALL the Heyers right now!!
I think Cotillion is my favorite Heyer. I mean, all of them are my favorite, but that one is definitely in the top three. Dozen…
No seriously, it’s so good. If I had the power to turn any of them into a BBC mini-series, which apparently alas no one does, that would be my top pick.
@Ren Benton: I am also a huge DAVID! fan. I burnt out on the series after maybe 7 books? But I have been wanting to read them again (hell, I dragged the paperback versions I’ve owned for about a decade to another state). I think Caine did a really good job in them of addressing the consent issues and Jo was concerned about taking advantage, which was refreshing to read.
@ Ren Benton @Katie Lynn Ibwas a huge fan of the Weather Warden books but I absolutely loathed David. Which is probably why I fell of the series.
About a year ago I discovered that Richard Armitage recorded a few of the Heyer novels. I found these via Overdrive, but it looks like Audible has them too. Side note: I’ve never read any Heyer but listening to the sample made me giggle.
@kkw
I think Cotillion is my favorite Heyer.
I stopped by to say the same thing. I especially love the way the male lead’s character develops. (For the two of you who haven’t read it: Imagine if Bertie Wooster developed brains and willpower–in a completely plausible way–over the course of a single novel.)