Do You Want to Start a Scandal
RECOMMENDED: Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare is $1.99! This is part of the Castles Ever After series, but can be read on its own. Elyse loved this book:
I loved Do You Want to Start a Scandal. It’s funny, it’s sexy and it’s got some Clue-like shenanigans going on. If you have better self control than I do, I recommend savoring this book rather than powering through in one sitting (good luck).
On the night of the Parkhurst ball, someone had a scandalous tryst in the library. Was it Lord Canby, with the maid, on the divan? Or Miss Fairchild, with a rake, against the wall? Perhaps the butler did it.
All Charlotte Highwood knows is this: it wasn’t her. But rumors to the contrary are buzzing. Unless she can discover the lovers’ true identity, she’ll be forced to marry Piers Brandon, Lord Granville—the coldest, most arrogantly handsome gentleman she’s ever had the misfortune to embrace. When it comes to emotion, the man hasn’t got a clue.
But as they set about finding the mystery lovers, Piers reveals a few secrets of his own. The oh-so-proper marquess can pick locks, land punches, tease with sly wit . . . and melt a woman’s knees with a single kiss. The only thing he guards more fiercely than Charlotte’s safety is the truth about his dark past.
Their passion is intense. The danger is real. Soon Charlotte’s feeling torn. Will she risk all to prove her innocence? Or surrender it to a man who’s sworn to never love?
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White Whiskey Bargain by Jodie Slaughter is 99c at Amazon! Shana mentioned this on the most recent Whatcha Reading and really sold me on it from her description:
…a marriage of convenience plot between two super sexy moonshine smugglers in contemporary Kentucky.
“I want to give you my gratitude someplace other than that pretty mouth of yours.” – Javier Meza
The sudden and tragic death of her mother throws Hannah Hawkins into a position she doesn’t feel at all prepared for. With the duty of leading her family’s decades-long moonshining business weighing heavy on her shoulders, the last thing she needs is something making her transition even harder. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what she gets. A band of vicious new players has arrived in small-town Harlan, Kentucky, and while what they really want remains a mystery, it quickly becomes clear they’re willing to stoop to dark lengths to get it. To fight off a beast, Hannah realizes she needs to join forces with a rival.
Javier Meza may be the sole heir to his family’s moonshining empire, but he’s certainly no leader. He has no head for business or diplomacy, preferring to spend his days in the trenches, making corn liquor with the rest of the “cooks.” That doesn’t mean he isn’t more than willing to step up and take charge when his family finds themselves in danger. Forming a shaky partnership with the Hawkins family is one thing, but marrying Hannah Hawkins to keep their deal on the straight and narrow is something else entirely.
From All Things Burn author, Jodie Slaughter comes a multicultural romance about illegal white whiskey, a marriage of convenience between decades-long rival families, and Black Appalachia. Readers of Kenya Wright, Theodora Taylor, and Lucy Score & Claire Kingsley will enjoy this full-length romance novel with a strong heroine, swoon-worthy hero, and a very satisfying HEA.
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Room Service by Rochelle Alers is $2.99 at Amazon! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals, but isn’t being price-matched so far. Elyse mentioned this in a previous Hide Your Wallet because it sounded “delightful.” I think this can be read on its own without reading the previous two books in the Innkeepers series.
Bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ heartwarming and seductive series follows four very different women risking second chances deep in the sultry heart of New Orleans . . .
New Yorker Jasmine Washington had a successful interior design business, a high-powered marriage, and a chance at motherhood—until her perfect husband betrayed her big-time. Now starting from scratch, the Asian and African-American stunner is tackling a lifetime opportunity: co-managing her friend’s new luxury inn about to open in the Garden District. The last thing Jasmine needs is romance. New Orleans’ most eligible bachelor, investment banker Cameron Singleton, begs to differ.
Cameron challenges Jasmine’s cautious ways, teases her back into having real fun—and makes one sexy, utterly irresistible Mr. Right Now. But their passionate nights soon result in a surprise bonus. . . . Even though Cameron insists on being there for Jasmine, can she really believe his love is the real thing? Can she shake the past and design a completely new life? And is there really only one way to find out?
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Love by the Letters is 99c! This is a trio of historical romance novellas from Grace Burrowes, Kelly Bowen, and Vanessa Riley. I believe all of these authors have been favorably reviewed here on the site. I’m personally a Bowen fan. Like with any anthology, readers have opinions on which story was the strongest.
Watch out what you wish for…
For three couples, a letter promising an anonymous gift of wealth offers worldly success and dreams come true, provided each pair can learn not only to work together, but also to see differences as strengths.
A is for Amorous by Grace Burrowes
Adalicia Beauvais has no use for children, and even less use for most men. Plato wasn’t a bad sort, and Euclid was bright enough, but the modern variety of male holds no appeal for her. To earn ownership of a lovely country estate with a delightfully well stocked library, Ada must raise funds for an orphanage full of noisy, malodorous urchins.
As if that isn’t challenge enough, her only ally in this endeavor, is the headmaster, Lord John, who loves children, referees cricket matches, and plucks Ada’s very, very last nerve, even though she knows his devotion to the children is genuine, as is the orphanage’s need for funds. Opposites don’t always attract, but in this case, they must work together for thirty days, or neither Ada’s nor John’s dreams will ever come true.
B is for Beautiful Secrets by Vanessa Riley
Desperate to win proper dowries for his younger sisters, August Sedgewick has thirty days to sell his treasured art, make amends with his estranged brother, Lord Haverthon, and endure the prickly company of the business-minded Miss Nettles. The dedicated dressmaker is the toughest part of the deal for she’s more adroit at lecturing him on the habits of trade than succumbing to his charms. Yet, the sparkle of joy radiating in her spectacles as August distracts her with leisurely picnics and long rides in the park, teaches him more than he bargained for.
Modiste for those with secrets–pregnant brides-to-be, aging courtesans desperate to keep their patron’s attention, Mary-Anne Nettles would love the opportunity to have her talent out of the shadows and as she creates the bridal gown for the event of the season, the Earl of Haverthon’s wedding. To win that chance, the demure woman must spend time with the earl’s flamboyant brother helping him set up a business in trade. Yet, Mr. Sedgewick proves a difficult student, teaching Mary-Anne about fun and drawing her deeper into the unseen turmoil of Ton.
Can two very different souls rise above secrets to find a forever love for all the world to see?
C is for The Chapel of Love by Kelly Bowen
Henry Blackmore has always been a black sheep. He’s defied his ducal family, ignored expectations, and overcome tragedy to chase his own dreams of becoming a renowned architect. The only task standing between his fierce ambition and everything he’s ever wanted is the restoration of his family’s crumbling country manor. But first, he has to do something about Heaton Hall’s impossible steward.Heaton Hall was essentially abandoned when Maeve Murray became steward after the death of her father. When Henry arrives with his pockets full of cash, Maeve is delighted – until she realizes that the money is not to help the struggling tenants but to restore the frivolous ballroom. Nonetheless, Maeve and Henry, they need each other, and working together might just restore more than a crumbling manor – it could restore two broken hearts!
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Three authors I like to read and I somehow missed Love by the Letters, so one-click for me.
White Whiskey Bargain looks interesting and different from my usual reading, so I ended up one-clicking it, too. I’m curious how the moonshine empire works in the story as moonshine is made and sold legally. In fact, there is a legal distillery in our town advertising it as our county’s only “official” moonshine.
Ah, books. I was going to check out that Charlie’s Angels reboot, but I found a quip from elizabeth banks about men being too dumb for feminist cinema. And now I can’t go because that joke got my anxiety up and running like a fridge. It came off as ableist to me.
I’ll try that whiskey romance book to get my mind somewhere else.
I need to read the Allers and Slaughter!
I loved Do you want to start a scandal! I read it in one sitting and I had already read the first two in the Castles Ever After by Dare in which Piers is only an auxillary character in book 2. The chemistry was palpable and it was an easy, fun and smexy read. I also highly recommend her new one The Wallflower Wager which is #3 in one of her series. I loved the H/h and the sparks that fly. On my top 5 fave books now.
For me, the pull quote for the whiskey book does not work out of context. Half of me wants to laugh at how unsexy it is. The other half is thinking that my Cayman Islands or Swiss bank accounts are perfect locations to display his gratitude for illegal activities.
“Do You Want to Start a Scandal” also has connections to the Spindle Cover series. Charlotte is the younger sister of Minerva (A Week to Be Wicked) and Diana (Beauty and the Blacksmith).
Tessa Dare’s site puts the book in both the Spindle Cove and Castles Ever After series.
MsCellanie, me too. Might be cute in context but I found it vaguely threatening on its own, maybe due to jokes about men in prison with pretty mouths.
I loved ‘Do You Want To Start A Scandal’, but I’m glad I read ‘A Week To Be Wicked’ and ‘Any Duchess Will Do’ first.
(I’m probably going to go back and read ‘Beauty and the Blacksmith’ at some point as well.)