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Between the Devil and the Duke
Between the Devil and the Duke by Kelly Bowen is $2.99! This is book three in the Season for Scandal series, but it can be read as a standalone. Readers really liked both main characters, though others felt the hero had a serious case of insta-love, or at the very least…insta-lust. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
Their love was always in the cards.
He should have thrown her out. But when club owner Alexander Lavoie catches a mysterious blonde counting cards at his vingt-et-un table, he’s more intrigued than angry. He has to see more of this beauty—in his club, in his office, in his bed. But first he’ll have to devise a proposition she can’t turn down.
Gossip said he was an assassin. Common sense told her to stay away. But Angelique Archer was desperate, and Lavoie’s club offered a surefire way to make quick money—until she got caught. Instead of throwing her out though, the devil offers her a deal: come work for him. Refusing him means facing starvation, but with a man so sinfully handsome and fiercely protective, keeping things professional might prove impossible.
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Written on Your Skin
Written on Your Skin by Meredith Duran is $2.99! This is a standalone historical romance with a spy hero and second chance romance. Some readers felt there was a lot of filler in the plot progressions, while others liked how intelligent the heroine was. Have you read this one?
Beauty, charm, wealthy admirers: Mina Masters enjoys every luxury but freedom. To save herself from an unwanted marriage, she turns her wiles on a darkly handsome stranger. But Mina’s would-be hero is playing his own deceptive game. A British spy, Phin Granville has no interest in emotional entanglements…until the night Mina saves his life by gambling her own.
Four years later, Phin is finally freed by his new title from the bloody game of spycraft. But memories of the girl who saved him won’t let Phin go. When he learns that Mina needs his aid, honor forces him back into the world of his nightmares.
Phin is a man intent on control. Mina is fiercely devoted to her independence. As they match wits, their practiced masks begin to slip, kindling an attraction more dangerous than any treasonous conspiracy. For in two lives built on lies, love can prove the darkest secret of all…
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Come the Morning
Come the Morning by Heather Graham is 99c at Amazon! This was originally published in the late 90s under the name Shannon Drake, just in case the plot seems familiar to some of you. Some readers took issue with the heroine’s personality, while others loved the passion between the hero and heroine.
A battle of wills is ignited when a Viking’s daughter is forced to marry a Scottish warrior knight
During a bloody borderland skirmish, thirteen-year-old Waryk de Graham wields his slain father’s sword and vanquishes the Norman enemy. Ten years later, with King Henry I dead and the English succession in chaos, Waryk, the newly knighted Laird Lion, is once again fighting for his Scottish homeland—this time against Normans and Vikings alike. But it is for the heart of one extraordinary woman that the great warrior will wage his fiercest battle.
The daughter of a Gaelic noblewoman and a Viking warlord, proud, independent Lady Mellyora MacAdin of Blue Isle is a formidable swordswoman who yields to no man. When Scotland’s King David decrees that she marry the war-scarred knight Waryk in order to keep the Viking island secure for his kingdom, she defiantly rebels.
Come the Morning is the first novel in Heather Graham’s medieval Scottish series that introduces the Graham clan, Gaelic-speaking Lowlanders who fight with their Highland brethren for the country they love.
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Forbidden Love
Forbidden Love by Karen Robards is $1.99! This historical has a forbidden romance element between a guardian and his ward, which I know is major catnip for some. However, I read one review that mentions consent issues. If you’ve read this one, can you leave some thoughts in the comments? It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
A spellbinding novel about a headstrong young beauty and her aristocratic guardian who are torn between passion and propriety.
A headstrong young beauty and her aristocratic guardian are torn between passion and propriety in this beloved romance from bestselling author Karen Robards.
With one sweet, seductive kiss, Megan Kinkead is no longer the impudent child Justin Brant remembers. She was a girl when she left Maam’s Cross Court for school, but she has returned a woman, body and soul. Once Megan’s guardian, Justin, the sixth Earl of Weston, is soon her heart’s obsession. Desire smolders between them, and then he tells her he is married…
Set against the lush green hills of Ireland, Karen Robards’s classic tale will captivate your imagination and set your soul ablaze as a stubborn young beauty and her aristocratic paramour are caught between loyalty and Forbidden Love.
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Come the Morning – can you say photo shopped hair?
Hahahaha Willa, I didn’t notice it until your comment! That’s pretty ridiculous.
@Willa: I don’t think that’s his hair; I think that’s a portal to the underworld that’s opening behind his head.
@Willa, not sure why the photoshopped a brillo pad onto that poor laird’s head but… it’s a look?
I bought the first one (thanks!) and already had the second one but realized I hadn’t read it yet (no wonder I couldn’t remember anything about it).
I would have bought the last one but I saw a review on B&N that said the hero was first verbally abusive then physically so and the heroine kept forgiving him. There were also some positive reviews so YMMV.
99¢ countdown deal at Amazon on Mariana Zapata’s Wait for It! (It’s over in two days, but the good news is that then the price will only nudge up to $1.99. It normally sells for $4.99, so either sale is a good price. Buy this book, fans of slow burn, working class protagonists, and community-based romance.)
I was so excited to see this sale. I had read Wait for It via KU but held off buying the book because it’s actually my least favorite of the loosely-woven tetralogy that begins with Under Locke, yet it was the most expensive. All I needed was for it to drop down to $3.99 like Kulti (omg, Kulti). (I have this unfortunate problem where I associate pleasure with price. Lisa Kleypas, if you’ll just refund me a dollar for Daisy’s book, we can be bffs. Let’s face it, you painted yourself into a corner when you slotted St Vincent and Evie for the third volume. But your publisher didn’t have to exacerbate the problem by charging more for volume four.)
On a related note: I spotted both Kulti and The Wall of Winnipeg and Me in Audible’s new unlimited romance package catalog. So worth listening to! (I could listen to Kulti call Sal “schnecke” forever. Do I know if the narrator is pronouncing it correcty? Not a clue.)
Alyssa Cole’s An Extraordinary Union is $2.99 at Kobo and Amazon right now
I think I read the Robards a few years ago. If I’m correct, it’s one of her older books and they have some of the tedious issues common in the 80s — very young, naive heroines and a big power imbalance. I don’t remember consent issues, but I suspect I’d have just filed any under “written in the 80s”
I must say, I just read her latest, Ultimatum and it’s James Bond for women. I loved it until I got to the end. As always, Bond — oops, I meant Bianca — moves on, rather than having a more fulfilling romance. Still, it was good. I’d read more of her adventures.