A Notorious Vow
RECOMMENDED: A Notorious Vow by Joanna Shupe is $3.99! This was my first Shupe and I loved it. Feel free to read my review, where I gave it an A-:
This book is a gem. It gave me those starry-eyed, book-drunk feelings that were very reminiscent of when I finished my first Lisa Kleypas historical.
Joanna Shupe returns to New York City’s Gilded Age, where fortunes and reputations are gained and lost with ease—and love can blossom from the most unlikely charade
With the fate of her disgraced family resting on her shoulders, Lady Christina Barclay has arrived in New York City from London to quickly secure a wealthy husband. But when her parents settle on an intolerable suitor, Christina turns to her reclusive neighbor, a darkly handsome and utterly compelling inventor, for help.
Oliver Hawkes reluctantly agrees to a platonic marriage . . . with his own condition: The marriage must end after one year. Not only does Oliver face challenges that are certain to make life as his wife difficult, but more importantly, he refuses to be distracted from his life’s work—the development of a revolutionary device that could transform thousands of lives, including his own.
Much to his surprise, his bride is more beguiling than he imagined. When temptation burns hot between them, they realize they must overcome their own secrets and doubts, and every effort to undermine their marriage, because one year can never be enough.
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RECOMMENDED: The Chai Factor by Farah Heron is $1.99! Aarya really loved this one and gave it an A-:
The Chai Factor is very much a swoonworthy rom-com: it’s funny and sobering, it has witty dialogue and disquieting situations, and it’s sigh-worthy and rage-inducing. I laughed, I cried, and I cheered for Amira and Duncan. The Chai Factor is an essential book for your list of summer reads.
Amira Khan has no plans to break her no-dating rule.
Thirty-year-old engineer Amira Khan has set one rule for herself: no dating until her grad-school thesis is done. Nothing can distract her from completing a paper that is so good her boss will give her the promotion she deserves when she returns to work in the city. Amira leaves campus early, planning to work in the quiet basement apartment of her family’s house. But she arrives home to find that her grandmother has rented the basement to . . . a barbershop quartet. Seriously? The living situation is awkward: Amira needs silence; the quartet needs to rehearse for a competition; and Duncan, the small-town baritone with the flannel shirts, is driving her up the wall.
As Amira and Duncan clash, she is surprised to feel a simmering attraction for him. How can she be interested in someone who doesn’t get her, or her family’s culture? This is not a complication she needs when her future is at stake. But when intolerance rears its ugly head and people who are close to Amira get hurt, she learns that there is more to Duncan than meets the eye. Now she must decide what she is willing to fight for. In the end, it may be that this small-town singer is the only person who sees her at all.
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RECOMMENDED: The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev is $1.99! Redheadedgirl and Carrie did a joint review of the book and gave it a B+. The TL;DR of their review was that they wished they had the hero’s POV to help address some of his behaviors, but appreciated how the heroine’s trauma was addressed. They also mention lots of content warnings; click through to their review for more on that.
Ria Parkar is Bollywood’s favorite Ice Princess–beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof–until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling home to Chicago for her cousin’s wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting Vikram Jathar.
Ria and Vikram spent childhood summers together, a world away from Ria’s exclusive boarding school in Mumbai. Their friendship grew seamlessly into love–until Ria made a shattering decision. As far as Vikram is concerned, Ria sold her soul for stardom and it’s taken him years to rebuild his life. But beneath his pent-up anger, their bond remains unchanged. And now, among those who know her best, Ria may find the courage to face the secrets she’s been guarding for everyone else’s benefit–and a chance to stop acting and start living.
Rich with details of modern Indian-American life, here is a warm, sexy, and witty story of love, family, and the difficult choices that arise in the name of both.
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Men of Haven: Volume 1 by Rhenna Morgan is $2.99! This collection features the first three books in the Men of Haven series. The books are also full-length, so this is a pretty good deal! Have you read any of these?
The first three books in Rhenna Morgan’s irresistible Men of Haven series, available now!
Live hard, love harder, and make your own rules. Those are the cornerstones the Men of Haven bleed by. Heaven help the poor bastards who get between them and the women they’ve claimed as their own.
Rough & Tumble
Jace Kennedy lives for the challenge. He sees Vivienne Moore’s hidden wild side and knows she’s his perfect match, if only he can break it free. Earning her trust is a task unlike any he’s faced so far, but Jace didn’t get where he is by giving up.
Jace is everything Vivienne swore she never wanted, but he loves just as fiercely as he fights. He’s proud of who he is and where he came from, and he’ll be damned if he lets Vivienne go before showing her the safest place of all is in his arms.
Wild & Sweet
Zeke Dugan may have sworn an oath as a trauma doc, but he has zero problem leveraging his medical skills if it means giving his family an advantage. Blood before business.
All that changes when shy Gabrielle Parker stumbles into his life.
Zeke doesn’t play by the rules, but he’s exactly what Gabrielle needs in her life. He’ll show her the fierce protection that comes from belonging to a man like him.
No one will hurt his woman, even if it means putting the very men who saved his own life at risk.
Claim & Protect
Trevor Raines lives on the edge of legal. A good guy doing bad things to save lives, the only rules he follows are his own, and there’s nothing in the world that will change that. Until Natalie Jordan walks into his life…
Trevor had no interest in settling down, but there’s something entirely too appealing about the woman he can’t stay away from. There’s only one thing to do—change his plans…and hers. When Natalie’s ex resurfaces to threaten her new life, Trevor will move heaven and earth to make sure the bastard can’t hurt her again. Except saving Natalie means outing his own secrets—and it could mean losing her forever…
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R. F. Kuang’s THE DRAGON REPUBLIC (sequel to THE POPPY WAR) is $2.99. The last book in the trilogy is due out in November, so it won’t be a huge wait if you’re series-shy.
Can vouch for how amazing The Chai Factor is. Reading it helped me through waiting for an ultrasound, to the point that I forgot about how bad I had to pee.
All of these are so good!
Loved the hero in A Notorious Vow. Eventually couldn’t deal with the heroine, who was a spineless watering pot. YMMV, but wanted to give a heads up for people who find that sort of heroine as annoying as I do.
@Egged, I agree that she’s kind of week at the beginning because she’s suffered horrific emotional abuse her whole life, but she gains strength by the end. I love her relationship with her little sister-in-law who looks up to her. She wants to be a stronger person for her and for her husband and I just *bursts into tears* I read this book a lot.