The Stanislaski Series: Volume 1
The Stanislaski Series: Volume 1 by Nora Roberts is $2.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals. This volume collects the first three books in this contemporary romance series. These books were originally published in the early 90s. Have you read them?
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the first three stories in her classic Stanislaskis family saga.
TAMING NATASHA
When composer Spence Kimball sets eyes on Natasha Stanislaski, he’s thunderstruck by the intensity of his attraction. While the former ballet dancer has a fiery temperament that keeps most men safely at bay, Spence can’t seem to resist her. But he isn’t sure Natasha would be interested in a single father. He’ll do whatever it takes to tame Natasha’s fears…and show her how to love again.
LURING A LADY
Nothing in Sydney Hayward’s background of wealth and privilege had prepared her to take the helm of her grandfather’s business. Sydney learned the hard way that she could never trust anyone, but her tenant Mikhail is hard to resist. She doesn’t have room in her life for romance — but Mikhail seems to know exactly how to win her over…one smoldering kiss at a time.
FALLING FOR RACHEL
For the public defender Rachel Stanislaski, her work is her life. The last thing she needs is the hot-headed Zack Muldoon storming into her court room. Zack might not like it, but he needs Rachel. She’s the only person standing between his delinquent kid brother and a prison sentence. Zack is used to getting his way—but when it comes to Rachel he might just lose his heart.
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American Queen by Sierra Simone is 99c! This is the first book in the New Camelot Trilogy. This is a menage romance with BDSM, some darker elements, and a cliffhanger. I’ve seen this highly recommended on social media, but there’s something about the description that puts me off. Maybe the political element? If you’ve read this, let me know what you think!
Warned as a girl to keep her kisses to herself, Greer Galloway disobeys twice–once on her sixteenth birthday as she’s kneeling in a pool of broken glass, and another time after a charming stranger named Embry Moore whisks her into the dazzling Chicago night. Both times she falls in love, and both times her heart is broken beyond repair. And so as an adult, she vows never to kiss–or to love again.
That’s until the Vice President of the United States shows up at the university where she teaches, and asks for one thing: for her to meet with the hero-turned-President Maxen Colchester. Maxen, the soldier who was her first kiss in that pool of broken glass.
And the other complication? The Vice President is none other than charming Embry Moore himself.
Soon, Greer finds herself caught between past and present, pleasure and pain–and two men who long for each other as much as they long for her. And as war and betrayal press ever closer, they tumble headlong into a passionate love affair that will change the world…
From the USA Today bestselling author of Priest comes a contemporary reimagining of the legend of King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot–elegant, carnal, and unforgettable.
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Born of Darkness by Lara Adrian is 99c! This is the first book in the Hunter Legacy paranormal romance series. This is a spin-off series, though readers say you don’t really need to read anything else to understand this one. It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
New York Times bestselling author Lara Adrian introduces the first novel in the Hunter Legacy series, thrilling new vampire romances set in the darkly seductive Midnight Breed paranormal story world.
As a former assassin in the Hunter program, Asher is one of a small group of Gen One Breed vampires who survived the horrors of a madman’s laboratory and the cruelty of the training that made him one of the most lethal beings in existence. Now, twenty years after his escape from those hellish origins, Ash is a loner whose heart is as cold as his skills are lethal. But when a beautiful, secretive young woman on the run from dangerous enemies crosses his path in the middle of a dark night in the desert outside Las Vegas, Ash is drawn into a deadly game where trust can be an illusion and love may be the sharpest weapon of all.
Book 1 in a brand-new Midnight Breed spin-off series!
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The Gown by Jennifer Robson is $3.99! Elyse reviewed this one and gave it C+. She felt too many things were added on for length, but still had good things to say:
If you love to sew or embroider or knit and if you love the history of those things, then I think The Gown may work beautifully for you. It’s a lovely work about female friendships that are forged in shared creativity…
“The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world racked by the cost of war.”–Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network
From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century—Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown—and the fascinating women who made it.
“Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to travel.”
—Sir Winston Churchill on the news of Princess Elizabeth’s forthcoming wedding
London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation’s recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gown.Toronto, 2016: More than half a century later, Heather Mackenzie seeks to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from her late grandmother. How did her beloved Nan, a woman who never spoke of her old life in Britain, come to possess the priceless embroideries that so closely resemble the motifs on the stunning gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding almost seventy years before? And what was her Nan’s connection to the celebrated textile artist and holocaust survivor Miriam Dassin?
With The Gown, Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created. Balancing behind-the-scenes details with a sweeping portrait of a society left reeling by the calamitous costs of victory, she introduces readers to three unforgettable heroines, their points of view alternating and intersecting throughout its pages, whose lives are woven together by the pain of survival, the bonds of friendship, and the redemptive power of love.
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I love love love the American Queen trilogy, but it’s Sierra Simone, so it’s…a lot. A lot of explicit sex, a lot of angst, and a bit of a magical realism element. Her use of the King Arthur legend is so well done though, and I’ve gone back and reread this one a couple times. It doesn’t stand on its own though, you really have to read the whole trilogy.
There are actually a couple of additional books in Simone’s New Camelot series, which can be read after the initial three-book trilogy. Warning: do not read the Amazon blurb for the most recent book because it gives away a huge plot from the trilogy.
As always, I’ll plug Simone’s PRIEST, one of my all-time favorite romances.
Read most of the first American Queen bc it came free in a boxed set a while back. I normally don’t read ANY of those elements (politics, BDSM, menage, super angst) but it was such a Trainwreck to Cracktown that I kept reading even as in the back of my mind I kept asking myself “WHAT DID I JUST READ?”
The heroine verges on spineless blank slate. The suspension of disbelief required is sky high. I would never read it again. But, totally cracktastic.
Oh and funny enough the two things that did almost get me to stop reading bc they were SO EYEROLLINGLY INACCURATE were:
1) the heroine is a professor at Georgetown. At 25. With only an MA. In medieval lit. HAS THIS AUTHOR EVER HEARD ABOUT THE ACADEMIC JOB MARKET?!?!
2) The heroes are president and VP of the US, both under 40, with little to no political career whatsoever. IT’S LIKE BUTTIGIEG FANFICTION MIXED WITH FIFTY SHADES.
@Egged I was kind of gearing myself up to be intrigued by American Queen despite its containing lots of stuff not particularly to my taste until I read your comment, and then the professor thing broke me. Why that element should be the bridge too far for me is probably an indictment of my character, but come on, authors, this is not a difficult detail to research.
There’s a Tessa Bailey book — I think it was the second in the Broke and Beautiful trilogy — where the baby MA hero has a similarly ludicrous setup at NYU (or Columbia), confounded by the fact that it’s a key plot point that he has a standing offer to switch to teaching at Columbia (or NYU). There were other issues in that book that bothered the hell out of me, but the hero’s ridiculous job situation was what made me DNF.
I loved the Stanislanksi books. I own them in paperback (annoyingly bound as “sisters” and “brothers” editions, so in order to read them in order you have to flip flop between the two books). There’s not overarching plotlines, but they’re a cozy series with a couple of TW plotlines if I recall correctly, but the triggers are from the past and just come into play in their new relationships. They’re from her HQN days, but I think they may have originally been part of their silhouette line. Easy, relatively quick reads.
@Katie Lynn, yes, the Stanislaski books were from the Silhouette line. You know how it is when most of the series is pretty good, but one really gets to you for some reason? “Luring a Lady” was one of my favorite Nora Roberts from that period. One thing that’s refreshing about Roberts from that era is that she doesn’t use gimmicks: no billionaires, secret babies/pregnancies, falling for the best friend’s sibling (or sibling’s best friend), etc. Just well-done romances with strong, likable characters. For $2.99 if you haven’t read them, the bundle is worth a look.
@Egged: Trainwreck to Cracktown is going to be the name of my next album.
The Taming Natasha book is a good one for an autumn read. It starts in September, and has lots of fall elements – back to school,Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc. I haven’t read the other two so it’s an easy buy for me.
The Stanislaski series had a 4th book,”Waiting for Nick” that tied in with “The O’Hurley” series. Both series are favorites of mine. I miss Nora Roberts’ writing from that era. She used to be an automatic buy for me, but I haven’t read her new books in years and I just stopped buying her “In Death” series.
I already own two of the three books in the Roberts bundle (in fact, I have 2 copies of one of them), but I’m tempted to buy it just for the third since $2.99 is still a decent price for one book.
Actually, “Waiting for Nick” is the 5th book. The 4th book is about the last of the original Stanislaski siblings and the 5th and 6th books feature “next generation” characters. I’d forgotten about the O’Hurley tie-in, or rather I mis-remembered that it was a tie-in from the MacGregor series.
This is completely off topic, but where can I find the Buttigieg fanfiction please?
@Egged & @Cristie – hilarious! Who would have thought six months ago that not only could we (well, most of us) pronounce “Buttigieg” correctly, but there would be requests for fan fiction? I’d like to read the K.J. Charles or Cat Sebastian historical version with Pete and Chasten as the H/H. I mean, “Chasten”? Names just do not get much better than that.
Tried to read a sample of American Queen because it sounded crazy but unfortunately I can see it has some of (what’s the opposite of catnip? Eh? Kryptonite) the things I really hate reading, like love triangles, over-the-top angst and ultimately, a first person heroine POV. So no, not for me. Also, I can’t suspend enough disbelief to buy an American president/vice President team that’s so young. Tempted by PNR, I used to read them a lot but have also been out off by the heroines first person POV, it’s not that I mind First Person, if the narrator i a an absolutely fascinating character (Take Jane Doe for example) but PNR heroines are either TSTL or badass and it gets tedious after so many books.
I’ve seen people recommending Sierra Simone’s work over the years, but every time I read a synopsis, I feel like I’m going to get some version of Original Sinners Lite. Which … Tiffany Reisz is imho a polymath and an idiosyncratic and talented writer, so even if another author wants to put her spin on an Original Sinners-esque premise, … I don’t necessarily trust them to have the chops to pull it off. Am I completely off base? Any Simone fans here to set me straight and tell me that I’m prejudiced and wrong? Would be interested in hearing from them.
@E.L.: If a writer/book does it for me, I can overlook a number of shortcomings (conversely, if the writer/book doesn’t do it for me, I’ll notice every misplaced comma)—and Sierra Simone is a writer who just does it for me. I would recommend trying the PRIEST/MIDNIGHT MASS/SINNER trilogy (PRIEST can be read as a stand-alone if you don’t want to commit to three books) or one of her MISADVENTURES titles (MISADVENTURES OF A CURVY GIRL, for example). None of these has a paranormal element.
If you are in the UK the Nora Roberts offer at Amazon is all six Stanislaski books for £9.99, which really isn’t bad for Nora books.
@DiscoDollyDeb: Thank you for the recs! Have also heard a lot of good things about her Thornchapel series. And paranormal can be really hit or miss with me, so I’m cool with the fact that there are no paranormal elements.
@E.L: Simone also has a series called Markham Hall which Sarah McKean described as “sexy Jane Eyre.” There are four books, I think, and they are historicals, which I rarely read and I haven’t read these—but the covers are lovely. I don’t believe these are paranormals either.
I meant Sarah MacLean of course!