All of today’s books are from today’s Kindle Daily Deals, which means these sales are limited.
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Heiress for Hire
Heiress for Hire by Madeline Hunter is 99c at Amazon! This is the first book in a new series for Hunter and Catherine gave it a B-. She felt the mystery element didn’t have the same satisfying resolution as the romance. I liked this one a better (maybe a B or B+).
In this stunning series debut from New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter, a duke’s mysterious bequest brings fortune—and passion—to three young women…
Minerva Hepplewhite has learned the hard way how to take care of herself. When an intruder breaks into her home, she doesn’t swoon or simper. Instead, she wallops the rogue over the head and ties him up—only to realize he is Chase Radnor, the man who nearly got her convicted of her late husband’s murder. Now, he’s insisting that Minerva has inherited a fortune from his uncle, a wealthy Duke. Only one thing could surprise her more: her sudden attraction to this exasperating man…
Chase can’t decide whether Minerva is a wronged woman or a femme fatale. Either way, he’s intrigued. Since the scandal surrounding her husband’s death, she has set up a discreet detective business to rival Chase’s own. She may be the perfect person to help him uncover the truth about his uncle’s demise. But as proximity gives way to mutual seduction, Chase realizes he craves a much deeper alliance…
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Darling Rose Gold
Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel is $1.99! This is a pretty recent release and one that was on my to-buy list. It has “ripped from the headlines” plot, which many of you probably recognize if you were as obsessed with the Gypsy Rose Blanchard case as I was.
Mothers never forget. Daughters never forgive.
In her compulsive, sharply-drawn debut, Stephanie Wrobel peels back the layers of the most complicated of mother-daughter relationships.
For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold.
Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar.
After serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes.
Patty insists all she wants is to reconcile their differences. She says she’s forgiven Rose Gold for turning her in and testifying against her. But Rose Gold knows her mother. Patty Watts always settles a score.
Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling…
And she’s waited such a long time for her mother to come home.
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The Bachelor
The Bachelor by Sabrina Jeffries is 99c at Amazon! This was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet and I think Jeffries is a historical romance author that either works for you or doesn’t. I always get a Mary Balogh feel from her books: slower, more character driven, etc. Do you agree or disagree?
New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries features an irresistible family in a series to savor, as the grown children of a thrice-married dowager duchess piece together the stories of their fathers–while pursuing passions of their own . . .
Lady Gwyn Drake has long protected her family’s reputation by hiding an imprudent affair from her youth. But when her former suitor appears at Armitage Hall, manhandling the heiress and threatening to go public with her secrets, it’s Gwyn who needs protecting. Her twin brother, Thorn, hires Joshua Wolfe, the estate’s gamekeeper, to keep her safe in London during her debut. As a war hero, Joshua feels obligated to fulfill the assignment he has accepted. But as a man, it’s torment to be so very close to the beauty he’s fought to ignore . . .
With handsome Joshua monitoring her every move, Gwyn would prefer to forget both the past and the parade of money-seeking bachelors at her coming out. But Joshua is unmoved by her attempts at flirtation, and the threat of blackmail still hangs over her. With danger closing in, Gwyn must decide which is the greater risk: deflecting a scoundrel’s attempts to sabotage her–or revealing her whole heart to the rugged bodyguard she can’t resist . . .
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
RECOMMENDED: At Home by Bill Bryson is $1.99! Carrie wrote a Lightning Review of this one and gave it an A:
Bryson has a talent for conveying a lot of information in an entertaining, accessible way, as seen in A Walk in the Woods and A Short History of Nearly Everything. This is a fun book with a lot of details on Victorian life.
In “AT HOME”, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose, and masterful storytelling that made “A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING” one of the most lauded books of the last decade. He delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live.
Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business—eating, sleeping and merely endeavouring to get more comfortable. Also, that most of the key discoveries of humankind can be found in the very fabric of the houses in which we live. This inspired him to start a journey around his own house, an old rectory in Norfolk, wandering from room to room considering how the ordinary things in life came to be. Along the way he did a prodigious amount of research on the history of anything and everything, from architecture to electricity, from food preservation to epidemics, from the spice trade to the Eiffel Tower, from crinolines to toilets; and on the brilliant, creative and often eccentric minds behind them.
He discovered that, although there may seem to be nothing as unremarkable as our domestic lives, there is a huge amount of history, interest and excitement—and even a little danger—lurking in the corners of every home.
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My reintroduction to Regency romances as an adult was Hunter’s The Rarest Blooms series and they were funny and hot with engaging plots. But Heiress For Hire was a snooze fest.
Bill Bryson’s concepts always appeal to me, but every time I try one of his books I get startled by some brazenly mean fat-shaming and/or misogynist moment. (See IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY’s reference to the man “shaped like a beach ball,” or the whole exchange with the woman in A WALK IN THE WOODS.) Lots of fair-minded people I respect love him, so I’m starting to wonder if it’s me. So, if anyone knows if he bites his tongue in this one (for once!) I’d appreciate it…
Loved At Home, walking through the history of the house, one room at a time and encountering interesting tidbits along the way.
I keep meaning to read My Darling Rose Gold. Might finally pick that up.
I can’t stop goggling over the cover for Heiress for Hire. The purple background and yellow dress are such an attractive combination (like the Jeffries cover also!) but the green font is particularly striking and so unusual for a historical romance.
But my favorite detail is the movement of the ribbon/sash at her waist. The whole effect is so much my catnip I’m thinking of getting the physical copy just to swoon over it in person.
Trix, If you are interested in domestic history, you can try Ruth Goodman’s How to Be A Victorian or Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders. I read the Bryson ages ago, it was okay. Definitely liked the Goodman and Flanders books better.
@Trix, I cannot really speak for the fatphobia and misogyny, but I had to put down one of Bryson’s more recent travelogues because it gave me such a vibe of “everything was better before” and “the youth of today…” if that makes sense. So I would not really doubt your assertion. But I likewise know many people who love his books, so I might try again at some point.
The guy on the cover of The Bachelor seems to have incredibly elongated shins …