Ashwin
Ashwin by Kit Rocha is 99c! This is the first book in their spin-off Gideon’s Riders series and it’s not necessary to have finished the Beyond series to jump into this one. My complaints for this romance were that there was a lot given to introducing the large cast of characters. I still enjoyed the central couple and the secondary characters made me excited for future books.
The first book in the follow-up to Kit Rocha’s bestselling BEYOND series…
Gideon’s Riders, Book One
Lieutenant Ashwin Malhotra is a Makhai soldier–genetically engineered to be cold, ruthless. Unfeeling. His commanding officers consider him the perfect operative, and they’re right. Now, he has a simple mission: to infiltrate Gideon’s Riders, the infamous sect of holy warriors that protects the people of Sector One.
He’s never failed to execute an objective, but there’s one thing he didn’t anticipate–running into Dr. Kora Bellamy, the only woman to ever break through his icy exterior.
When Kora fled her life as a military doctor for the Makhai Project, all she wanted was peace–a quiet life where she could heal the sick and injured. The royal Rios family welcomed her like a sister, but she could never forget Ashwin. His sudden reappearance is a second chance–if she can manage to touch his heart.
When the simmering tension between them finally ignites, Kora doesn’t realize she’s playing with fire. Because she’s not just falling in love with a man who may not be able to love her back. Ashwin has too many secrets–and one of them could destroy her.
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Romancing the Scot by May McGoldrick is 99c! This is the first book in the Pennington Family and involves a hero finding a heroine in a crate. Yeah, you read that right. And the heroine fakes amnesia. Readers really loved the plot, though warn of a case of insta-lust. It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
In this stunning series starter by USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick, meet the new generation of Penningtons…five brothers and sisters of passion and privilege. Enter their aristocratic world…where each will fight injustice and find love.
Hugh Pennington—Viscount Greysteil, Lord Justice of the Scottish Courts, hero of the Napoleonic wars—is a grieving widower with a death wish. When he receives an expected crate from the continent, he is shocked to find a nearly dead woman inside. Her identity is unknown, and the handful of American coins and the precious diamond sown into her dress only deepen the mystery.
Grace Ware is an enemy to the English crown. Her father, an Irish military commander of Napoleon’s defeated army. Her mother, an exiled Scottish Jacobite. When Grace took shelter in a warehouse, running from her father’s murderers through the harbor alleyways of Antwerp, she never anticipated bad luck to deposit her at the home of an aristocrat in the Scottish Borders. Baronsford is the last place she could expect to find safety, and Grace feigns a loss of memory to buy herself time while she recovers.
Hugh is taken by her beauty, passion, and courage to challenge his beliefs and open his mind. Grace finds in him a wounded man of honor, proud but compassionate. When their duel of wits quickly turns to passion and romance, Grace’s fears begin to dissolve…until danger follows her to the very doors of Baronsford. For, unknown to either of them, Grace has in her possession a secret that will wreak havoc within the British government. Friend and foe are indistinguishable as lethal forces converge to tear the two lovers apart or destroy them both.
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Sugar Rush by Donna Kauffman is 99c! This is book one in the Cupcake Club series and actually has some cupcake recipes in the book. If you’re looking for a cute contemporary, this fits the bill. However, reviewers noted that repetitive emotional conflicts really slowed down the book’s pace.
Devil’s Food. . .Angel Cake. . .Red Velvet. . .Praline Crunch. . .Lemon Chiffon. . .
How’s a woman to choose?
Luckily, the members of the Cupcake Club are about to taste it all. . .
When baker extraordinaire Leilani Trusdale left the bustle of New York City for Georgia’s sleepy Sugarberry Island, she didn’t expect her past to follow. Yet suddenly, her former boss, Baxter Dunne, aka Chef Hot Cakes, the man who taught her everything pastry, wants to film his hit cooking show in her tiny cupcakery. The same Chef Hot Cakes whose molten chocolate brown eyes and sexy British accent made Lani’s mouth water and her cheeks blush the color of raspberry filling–stirring all kinds of kitchen gossip, much of which Lani wished was true. . .
Lani’s friends are convinced that this time around, Baxter is the missing ingredient in her recipe for happiness. But convincing Lani will be a job for Baxter himself. And he’ll need more than black velvet frosting to sweeten the deal. . .
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The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee is $2.99 at Amazon! This book did really well when it first came out and features mystery elements set in the Paris Opera. Most readers seem to be divided on the heroine, though many loved the setting. Have you read this one?
From a writer praised by Junot Díaz as “the fire, in my opinion, and the light,” a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman’s rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva
Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer’s chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all.
As she mines her memories for clues, she recalls her life as an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept up into the glitzy, gritty world of Second Empire Paris. In order to survive, she transformed herself from hippodrome rider to courtesan, from empress’s maid to debut singer, all the while weaving a complicated web of romance, obligation, and political intrigue.Featuring a cast of characters drawn from history, The Queen of the Night follows Lilliet as she moves ever closer to the truth behind the mysterious opera and the role that could secure her reputation — or destroy her with the secrets it reveals.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Romancing the Scot looks interesting, but I am concerned about being distracted by editing problems when the description tells us a priceless diamond is planted in the heroine’s dress rather than sewn.
@LauraL Well I’ve sown seed pearls into a dress but never diamonds
I thought that Queen of the Night and its heroine were both great. If you care a lot about accuracy of which operas were performed in which houses in the mid-nineteenth century, you may find inaccuracies there irksome, but Chee has really done his research and the historical detail is excitingly layered without being heavy-handed. It’s rich, old-fashioned storytelling, very much in the mold of the nineteenth-century storytellers (Dumas, Scott, Stendhal.) Lilliet is fascinating: passionate, clever, loyal, and ruthless.
Mary Stewart’s THE IVY TREE is on sale at Amazon for $1.99. Probably my favorite of her books, which may put me in the minority.
@LauraL I just bought the Nook version and it says sewn throughout the book. I skimmed the first three chapters and didn’t see any spelling or punctuation errors. I guess it’s just the blurb that’s wrong.
I did think it was funny, though. I usually see this error in reverse, as in “sewing wild oats” which always cracks me up.
Hostage to Pleasure – Book 5 in Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changling series – is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Hostage-Pleasure-Psy-Changelings-Book-Changeling-ebook/dp/B0017T0BAM/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
@Darlynne, my favorite, too. I own The Ivy Tree in ebook, paperback, and hardcover. Just in case, you know.
@Darlynne and @Vicki, me three. I got a copy at a library book sale sometime in the last century, and even just the smell of the pages transports me right into the story.
Singh’s Hostage to Pleasure is no longer on sale, it’s showing as $7.99 for me.
@SusanE – LOL at “sewing wild oats.”
Well, I ended up one-clicking Romancing the Scot last night and stayed up too late reading. Interesting plot and a quick-thinking heroine with a photographic memory. Not one misused or misspelled word 25% into the book.
I read Romancing the Scot as an ARC, so it may have been trimmed and edited before publication, but it seemed to take forever to reveal a lot. I felt like it dragged on forever at the beginning till the middle.
It was like a salad: a lot of random stuff is tossed in, but it was a bit much at times. Everything is tied up in a neat bow at the end.