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The Untouchable Earl
The Untouchable Earl by Amy Sandas is $1.99! This is a historical romance with a hero who hates to be touched and a heroine who’s been auctioned off at a pleasure house. Readers enjoyed the hero, but found that his aversion to touch was overcome rather easily. This is the second book in the Fallen Ladies series and can be read as a standalone. However, the first book is FREE and the third book is only $2.99.
He’s a reclusive Earl with a painful secret that’s kept him from knowing a lover’s touch. She’s a sheltered debutante tired of living by society’s rules. But when she’s forced from the ballroom to the brothel, Lily discovers the dark thrill of falling from grace…and into the arms of a man who could destroy her as easily as he saved her.
Lily Chadwick has spent her life playing the respectable debutante. But when an unscrupulous moneylender snatches her off the street and puts her up for auction at a pleasure house, she finds herself in the possession of a man who fills her with breathless terror and impossible yearning.
Though the Earl of Harte claimed Lily with the highest bid, he hides a painful secret―one that has kept him from knowing the pleasure of a lover’s touch. Even the barest brush of skin brings him physical pain, and he’s spent his life keeping the world at arm’s length. But there’s something about Lily that maddens him, bewitches him, compels him…and drives him toward the one woman brave and kind enough to heal his troubled heart.
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Exclusively Yours
RECOMMENDED: Exclusively Yours by Shannon Stacey is $1.99! This is book 1 in the Kowalskis series, and it’s just terrific. Sarah reviewed this book when it came out in 2010 and wrote:
I had such a good old time reading this book. There were some flaws to the plot but while reading it, I was charmed and giggly and totally absorbed. This book made me happy. That’s probably the best way to put it: it made me smile. A lot. Books like this are why I read romance.
When Keri Daniels’ editor finds out she has previous carnal knowledge of reclusive bestselling author Joe Kowalski, she gives Keri a choice: get an interview or get a new job.
Joe’s never forgotten the first girl to break his heart, so he’s intrigued to hear Keri’s back in town and looking for him. Despite his intense need for privacy, he’ll grant Keri an interview if it means a chance to finish what they started in high school.
He proposes an outrageous plan – for every day she survives with his family on their annual camping and four-wheeling trip, Keri can ask one question. Keri agrees; she’s worked too hard to walk away from her career.
But the chemistry between them is still as potent as the bug spray, Joe’s sister is out to avenge his broken heart and Keri hasn’t ridden an ATV since she was ten. Who knew a little blackmail, a whole lot of family and some sizzling romantic interludes could make Keri reconsider the old dream of Keri & Joe 2gether 4ever.
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Midnight Crossroad
Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris is 99c! This is the first book in her new Midnight, Texas series, which is urban fantasy with some mystery thrown in. Some readers felt this series lacks the charm of her Sookie Stackhouse series, but many loved that Harris went back to her roots as a mystery writer, though used paranormal elements. Also, out of curiosity, have any of you watched the TV show?
FIRST IN A NEW TRILOGY
From Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a darker locale – populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that’s how the locals prefer it…
Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town.
There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own).
Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. Stay awhile, and learn the truth…
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Poison Study
RECOMMENDED: Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder is $1.99! I really loved this book, so much that I own it both in print and digitally. This book has a 4+ star average on Goodreads, and is the first book in a series. It’s a mix of fantasy, adventure and mystery, and readers who loved it connected instantly with the heroine, Yelena.
Choose: A quick death…Or slow poison…
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She’ll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly’s Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.
As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can’t control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren’t so clear…
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I enjoyed the Midnight TX trilogy and the TV adaptation. The TV show braided the plot lines together in a slightly different order than the books, and used color-blind casting in nearly all cases which resulted in a fantastic cast dynamic, but thoroughly respected the book characters and their relationships. I’m thrilled the show is getting a second season, and I hope Harris adds more books to the series.
In other Harris-on-TV news, I just discovered the Aurora Teagarden movies on Hallmark, and haven’t had a chance for viewing yet. Does anybody know if the Lily Bard or Harper Connelly books will be made into movies/shows? I prefer Harris’s more antisocial heroines, but I can see why they wouldn’t be the obvious ones to film!
Can someone explain the position of The Untouchable Earl? I mean, I know they’re supposed to be doing a Wallbanger, but it looks as it the bottom of his shirt is involved….
@ Ken
It looks odd and I’m sure his valet is not going to get THAT stain out.
@Ken: He can’t stand skin-to-skin contact, so his shirt is clothing his personal solicitor, if you get my meaning.
@Ken:
Maybe they are trying to use the shirt as a condom?
(Not the stupidiest anti-conception method I’ve heard about)
Also, the slug for this post is earls-urban-fantasy, and I would totally read a modern day monster-hunting earl, especially if he’s old and stuffy.
House of Lords by day. Halls of Hell by night. He’d look absurd in leather pants and he’s not much of a fighter, but that won’t stop him from slaying evil with his acerbic wit.
@Ren Benton I believe you just came up with Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although, tbh, I would be there for Giles in leather pants.
LOVE Poison Study. There are a few problematic bits if you think about it too hard, but I’m able to set that aside because it’s a fantasy novel.
@Rose: I was envisioning Charles Dance, but Giles would do!
ooh … for a look at some real lords (nope, none that hot and all fully dressed*), PBS is showing “Meet the Lords” – about the House of Lords, how it works, introduces some of the lords.
* fully dressed is an understatement – not only do they usually wear suits, but for their formal taking the oath of office, they wear robes – long, red velvet robes with fur trim … and the Garter King of Arms (head herald) has his own formal wear
And I’m another who likes Poison Study which I’ve read several times. I gave it recently to my adult daughter, and she liked it, too.
@ Ren: Write it. Write it NOW.
The Study searies was a mixed bag for me. Some of the fantasy elements are amazing but i felt like the heroines love interest kept getting personality transplants between books. It was hard to be invested in their romance.
@arielibra – The Hallmark series took her Aurora Teagarden books and shoved them through a generic personality filter, which kind of ruined it for me. They turned her into a bubbly, perky librarian who belongs in a completely different series. I was like who the f*** is that and what have you done with Aurora?
What I love about the Midnight Crossing books was that she pulled in minor characters from some of her other series and made some of their backstories from those part of their stories in these.
I wasn’t too sure about the resolution to the end of Midnight Crossing, though. I can see that she kind of wrote herself into a corner with it, but I still found it a bit squicky.
Tore through Poison Study last night (thanks bad decisions book club), and enjoyed it for several reasons, in spite of upsetting parts. (May not continue if the love interest gets a personality transplant though. I liked him as is.)
Normally I wouldn’t comment on a cover which is pretty and effective, but since the book is fresh in my memory, I have to say…the heroine is described as being short, black haired, and copper skinned. She also spends much of her time bleeding and bedraggled, and wearing a practical uniform or camouflages. The girl on that cover is…none of those things. I can forgive the fab eye-shadow I suppose, because who doesn’t love smoky eyes, but in a genre asking itself hard questions about why readers of color often feel unwelcome, why does a heroine who is described as looking like she could come from Oaxaca given the complexion of a Scandinavian with light on her blonde hair? (And it’s ironic that in a book with some very definite things to say about gender politics, we still have to have a girl in a billowing cloak and a dress of the type it’s specified she NEVER wears, for good reasons.)
@Rebecca: The book originally had a different cover that I liked much better.