The Prince of Midnight
The Prince of Midnight by Laura Kinsale is $1.99! This historical romance has some Beauty and the Beast elements. Readers love the angsty, broody hero, while others thought there would be more action to the story. If you’ve read this one, tell us what you thought about it in the comments! It also has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
He was once a legendary highwayman. Now he’s a recluse in a ruined French castle, with only a half-wild wolf for a companion.
When Lady Leigh Strachan comes looking for a man to aid in her revenge, she is disillusioned to find that the famed Prince of Midnight could not help even if he cared to—which he does not.
S. T. Maitland wants nothing to do with his legend, or with this fierce, beautiful, broken woman . . . until the old thrill of living on the cutting edge of danger begins to rise in his blood again.
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RECOMMENDED: Time Served by Julianna Keyes is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance with an ex-con hero and it was mentioned on a previous podcast with Jane, who recommends Keyes if you like “moody loner dudes:”
You kind of have two unlikeable people. They reconnect after he’s out of prison. She’s a lawyer. She’s trying to angle for a promotion within her law firm, and they’re working on this class action suit regarding medical illnesses caused in a, a factory. So she runs into him again. There’s a lot of attraction there, lot of unresolved issues, and she can’t really bring herself to admit that she wants him, so he says, you don’t have to admit it, you only have to say no, which she never does. I thought it was a very gritty book, and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Dean Barclay had nothing to do with my decision to flee my old life, but he is 100 percent of the reason I vowed to never look back.
I’ve never forgotten how it felt to follow Dean—dangerous, daring, determined—away from the crowd and climb into his beat-up old Trans Am. I was sixteen and gloriously alive for the first time. When I felt his hand cover my leg and move upward, it was over. I was his. Forever.
Until I left. Him, my mom, and the trailer park. Without so much as a goodbye.
Now Dean’s back, crashing uninvited into my carefully cultivated, neat little lawyerly life. Eight years behind bars have turned him rougher and bigger—and more sexually demanding than any man I’ve ever met. I can’t deny him anything…and that just might end up costing me everything.
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Lord of Night by Erica Ridley is 99c! This is the third book in the Rogues to Riches series, but can be read as a standalone. Major catnip alert: the heroine is dons a disguise and acts as a Robin Hood-type figure. Readers warn that the book requires some suspension of disbelief, but that it’s a lot of fun. It has a 4.3-star rating on Goodreads.
Unlike proper debutantes, Miss Dahlia Grenville is secretly Robin Hood in a bonnet. Her home for wayward girls has too many dependents and not enough donations. But just as she’s about to pull off the heist of the Season, she tumbles straight into the arms of the handsome detective who has sworn to deliver Mayfair’s mysterious thief straight to the gallows.
Highly principled Bow Street runner Simon Spaulding’s world is black and white. There’s no mastermind too clever, no criminal alive who can escape the hangman. Until he realizes the delightful young lady he’s been courting is a liar and a thief. Suddenly, his career—and his heart—are in peril. How can he bring her to justice when it means losing her forever?
In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series, sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance with rollicking adventure.
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The Beauty of Us by Kristen Proby is $1.99! This is the fourth book in the Fusion series. The entire series follows a restaurant started by a group of friends, so female friendship is huge in this series. Readers loved seeing the group of women together, though some didn’t enjoy the hero as much.
New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby delivers another sizzling novel in her delectable and sexy Fusion series.
Riley Gibson is over the moon at the prospect of having her restaurant, Seduction, on the Best Bites TV network. This could be the big break she’s been waiting for. But the idea of having an in-house show on a regular basis is a whole other matter. Their lives would be turned upside down, and convincing Mia, her best friend and head chef of Seduction, that having cameras in her kitchen every day is a good idea is daunting. Still, Riley knows it’s an opportunity she can’t afford to pass on. And when she meets Trevor Cooper, the show’s executive producer, she’s stunned by their intense chemistry.
Trevor’s sole intention is to persuade Riley to allow Best Bites TV to do a show on her restaurant. But when he walks into Riley’s office, he stops dead in his tracks. The professional, aloof woman on the phone is incredibly beautiful and funny. But can he convince her that he’s interested in Riley for himself? Or is he using the undeniable pull between them to persuade her to agree to his offer?
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The Prince of Midnight is one of my favourites by Laura Kinsale. The heroine is consumed by her thirst for revenge and the hero is a mere shadow of the legend he once was. He puts her on a pedestal as the damsel-in-distress whom he just has to save to reach his former glory, and she holds him in contempt for being a good-for-nothing dreamer instead of a doer. Their relationship is fractured at best, but they manage to help each other discover their best selves, albeit after quite a few hiccups.
The definition of angst: this book is it.
JoS says it all…. So good. Seize the Fire is my favorite Kinsale but Prince of Midnight comes in second. The epilogue on this book…. *Kiss tips of fingers and toss away*
Jayne Ann Krentz: Sharp Edges – 1.99
Linda Howard: Sarah’s Child – 0.99
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TIME SERVED is one of my absolute favorite romances. Yes, it’s a second-chance romance, but there’s so much else going on: coming to terms with your past, learning to forgive yourself and others, and figuring out what you want now. I also liked that hero’s crime (for which he was imprisoned) was not sugar-coated or minimized; he committed a thoughtless crime and he paid the price. And I liked that the two legal cases the heroine was working on (one a big class-action lawsuit, the other involving pro-bono paperwork for a gym owner) had real bearing on the plot and weren’t just window-dressing. Highly-recommended!
Roomies by Christina Lauren is $1.99 on amazon US
Artistic License by Elle Pierson (who also writes as “Act Like It” Lucy Parker) is free at Amazon US right now. This is a KU title but free-free at the moment.
Seconding the Time Served rec! Keyes is generally very good at having an actual plot driven by the actions/choices of people with actual characters – and real jobs/lives – she’s an auto-buy for me.
Thanks, Lace! Just one clicked Artistic License!
Laura Kinsale’s The Medieval Hearts Series: For My Lady’s Heart and Shadowheart is available at as a set of both novels from Amazon US for $1.99 as well.
JoS could not have said it better regarding The Prince of Midnight – this was the historical romance I read that took the genre to a completely new place for me. It’s beyond angst, and it put me through an emotional wringer that proved remarkably satisfying when I came out the other side. My loyalties to either hero or heroine shifted almost every page. I would agree that based on the description I expected more action, but that’s not what this book is doing. If you expect a more emotional rolloercoaster you won’t be disappointed. It made me a Kinsale fan and I’ve been picking up her books as they cycle through sales.
Oddly, The Prince of Midnight comes up for me at $6.15 at Google Books.
Brightly Burning by Alexa Dunne is $1.99 at Amazon. It’s basically YA Jane Eyre in space and it just came out in May. I loved it—read straight through the copy I borrowed from the library yesterday, instead of getting errands done, and then bought a copy when I saw it was on sale.
Quick correction—I meant by Alexa Donne.
I also loved The Prince at Midnight. But after finishing the book, I was super annoyed to discover that fans online all looooved ST and hated Leigh … which made me question if we were even reading the same book. Like, you, as the reader, are not supposed to be taking all of ST’s grand declarations of love and gallantry at face value. What makes ST so interesting as a hero, is that he’s the one who is shallow, narcissistic, and slightly deluded, not bitter, broken Leigh …
Artistic License is one of my faves. I keep hoping she’ll turn it into a series.
Isn’t The Prince at Midnight the one where the hero has severe vertigo? I was a lot younger when I first read Kinsale. I’d probably have a whole different appreciation for her complex characters now. The trouble is I don’t think I’m up to her level of angst these days.
*The Prince of Midnight
Thirding Time Served!