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The Dukes of Vauxhall
The Dukes of Vauxhall is 99c! This is a historical romance anthology with four novellas. All of the romances take place simultaneously and readers say the authors did a great job keeping the continuity straight. However, with anthologies, not all of the stories are equal in their enjoyment. Have you read this one?
Four dukes. Two balls. One prizefight.
Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens will never be the same.
After England’s victory in the Battle of Waterloo, the Prince Regent arranges a series of lavish celebrations at London’s notorious Vauxhall Gardens. The royal festivities bring together the rich and the desperate, the criminal and the lordly…and allow four very different dukes to find the love of a lifetime.
A proper viscount is kidnapped by a duke of the criminal underworld, only to encounter a mysterious woman from his past. A retired prizefighter, once known as the Duke of the Ring, stakes his reputation on a scrappy young boxer for the sake of a long-lost love. A traveler who inherited a dukedom needs a tightrope dancer’s help with a fake engagement that just might turn real. And the buccaneer son of a royal duke goes hunting for a respectable, highborn wife to salvage his scandalous reputation.
Let the pleasures begin…
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What the Duke Doesn’t Know
What the Duke Doesn’t Know by Jane Ashford is $1.99 at Amazon and $2.99 at other vendors. This is the second book in The Duke’s Sons series, but can be read as a standalone. Readers really loved the heroine in this one, but found the pacing was quite uneven. All books in this series seem to have some sort of sale price and you can nab all five of them for less than $12 total.
A proper English wife, or the freedom of the sea?
Lord James Gresham is the fifth son of the Duke of Langford, a captain in the Royal Navy, and at a loss for what to do next. He’s made his fortune; perhaps now he should find a proper wife and set up his nursery. But the sea calls to him, while his search for a wife leaves him uninspired. And then, a dark beauty with a heart for revenge is swept into his life.He can’t have both, but he won’t give up either
Half-English, half-Polynesian Kawena Benson is out to avenge her father and reclaim a cache of stolen jewels. There’s nothing for James to do but protest his innocence and help Kawena search for the jewels, even though it turns his world upside down.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Just the Thing
Just the Thing by Marie Harte is $2.51 at Amazon and $2.99 elsewhere! This is the second book in The Donnigans contemporary romance series and features a no strings attached arrangement. Readers say this is an emotional romance with a great happily ever after. However, some found the hero to be rather immature for someone in his thirties.
A FLING MIGHT BE JUST THE THING…
Gavin Donnigan left the Marine Corps a shell of a man, hounded by guilt for deaths he couldn’t prevent. But teaching a self-defense class at the local gym brings some stability to his life—along with a gorgeous leggy blonde who won’t give him the time of day.Zoe York lost her twin sister to a freak car accident a few months ago. She’s been struggling to bury her grief, but it isn’t until she signs up for a self-defense class with its distractingly hot instructor that she begins to come out of her shell again. With the memory of her sister telling her to live a little, Zoe decides a fling with buns-of-steel Gavin Donnigan might be just the thing.
Soon they’re sparring both in and out of the gym. And for the first time in a long time, each is looking forward to tomorrow.
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Pure Heat
Pure Heat by M.L. Buchman is $2.51 at Amazon and $2.99 elsewhere! This is book one in the Firehawks series and many of the other books are also a similar price. Some readers found the large amount of detail regarding smokejumpers bogged down the book, while others loved the characters’ growth from start to finish.
These daredevil smokejumpers fight more than fires.
The elite fire experts of Mount Hood Aviation fly into places even the CIA can’t penetrate.
She lives to fight fires…
Carly Thomas could read burn patterns before she knew the alphabet. A third-generation forest fire specialist who lost both her father and her fiancé to the flames, she’s learned to live life like she fights fires: with emotions shut down.
But he’s lit an inferno she can’t quench…
Former smokejumper Steve “Merks” Mercer can no longer fight fires up close and personal, but he can still use his intimate knowledge of wildland burns as a spotter and drone specialist. Assigned to copilot a Firehawk with Carly, they take to the skies to battle the worst wildfire in decades and discover a terrorist threat hidden deep in the Oregon wilderness—but it’s the heat between them that really sizzles.
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Worth the Fall by Bria Quinlan is currently free. It’s a contemporary comedy that’s “clean” (only because the couple doesn’t get together at the end, but I hesitate to call it a slow burn). It’s one of my favorite “palate cleanser” reads.
Is yanking his shirt up to his face the new “thing” for romance cover heroes? Because we just had the Cover Snark guy biting his shirt, & now Mr. Just the Thing is clutching his hem to his forehead for… reasons?
I’m failing to see the appeal beyond, possibly, abs? But then, my favorite cover is still Pippa Grant’s “Stud in the Stacks”, so I’m probably not the target audience here.
I enjoyed the Dukes of Vauxhall–they are standalones with only Vauxhall and a few things related to it intertwined in the stories.
Props to the cover designer for What the Duke Doesn’t Know for picking a cover model who could plausibly match the heroine’s background.
Ummm…that should say “until the end”. The couple gets together in Worth the Fall.
Ilona Andrews’ Sweep in Peace is $1.49.
The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember is $.99 @ amazon
YA, f/f, mermaid plus shield-maiden!
JUST THE THING seems like it would be catnippy for me (and I don’t mind the shirt-pulling-up cover), but the heroine has the same name as a romance writer, Zoe York. Is Harte trolling her—or are they besties and this is a meta moment?
@Deianira — I typically find it attractive in real life when guys do that, including sometimes when I don’t otherwise think the guy is attractive at all, but it doesn’t work for me nearly as well on a cover. It seems to depend on the execution somehow.
@Deianira – I actually liked the cover because it’s something that my male family members and friends do all the time when they have worked out or gone on a run. They pull the hem of the tank up to wipe seat typically off their forehead or face. It’s nice to see a romance cover model doing something that is such a real guy thing.
I don’t think I could get past the name Kawena … no matter how I’m pronouncing it in my head, it sounds like I have a speech impediment.
@Karen I don’t think you meant to be cruel (and I see how you’re playing off Karen/Kawena), but Kawena is a real name. Names that seem “funny” at first are usually lovely when the shock of unfamiliarity has worn off. I mention this because I really love that more romances include diverse H/h. I would hate to have an author’s readership imperiled by a gut reaction to a name that’s unfamiliar.
Sincerely, A Fellow Reader Whose Entire Family Were Told To Change Their Names So Americans Would Not Find Them Funny
@Lana: Thanks for that! My real name isn’t one I consider odd, although it’s often mispronounced. But I recently hired a staff person with a name I’d never seen before – it’s a lovely one, & she seemed surprised that I guessed the correct pronunciation; she goes by a shortened & Anglicized version because of the confusion it can cause. Here’s to a future where we celebrate the diversity!
I’ll never forget working on a promotional mailing with a German colleague and laughing about how odd so many of the names were, only to find out we were making fun of completely different names. It made me think. It bothers me a bit in historical if a name is too far out of context, but otherwise I say go for it. Makes it more interesting, doesn’t it? I always worry I’m mispronouncing them, but that’s what Google is for, isn’t it?
@Lana, my apologies, no disrespect meant.
@Karen. No worries. And I like your name