We’re continuing our Best of 2020 with our bestselling sales! Through Saturday, we’re featuring the books that you all bought in record numbers through our affiliate links (thanks so much for that). This isn’t a definitive list as we’re only including books that are still priced at $3.99 or less.
We also have the Best Reviews, Best Cover Snark, Best Books, and Best Podcasts of 2020!
A Delicate Deception
RECOMMENDED: A Delicate Deception by Cat Sebastian is $3.99! Ellen absolutely loved this one and gave it an A-, and Ellen’s review cracked our top 5 reviews of the last year:
Overall, I do not have much more to say about this book except that it is wonderful. It made me feel many feelings and think many thoughts about how people relate to each other. If I could get you all copies, Oprah-style, I would.
When Amelia Allenby escaped a stifling London ballroom for the quiet solitude of the Derbyshire countryside, the very last thing she wanted was an extremely large, if—she grudgingly admits—passably attractive man disturbing her daily walks. Lecturing the surveyor about property rights doesn’t work and, somehow, he has soon charmed his way into lemon cakes, long walks, and dangerously heady kisses.
The very last place Sydney wished to be was in the shadow of the ruins of Pelham Hall, the inherited property that stole everything from him. But as he awaits his old friend, the Duke of Hereford, he finds himself increasingly captivated by the maddeningly lovely and exceptionally odd Amelia. He quickly finds that keeping his ownership of Pelham Hall a secret is as impossible as keeping himself from falling in love with her.
But when the Duke of Hereford arrives, Sydney’s ruse is revealed and what started out as a delicate deception has become a love too powerful to ignore. Will they let a lifetime of hurt come between them or can these two lost souls find love and peace in each other?
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The Demigod Complex by Abigail Owen is 99c! This paranormal romance came out last month and I’m so curious about it. It’s the first in a series that blends mythology with a workplace romance. It is on the shorter side, but I’ll probably buy it anyway for the catnippy setup.
When Lyleia Naiad was head-hunted by Brimstone, Inc., for her job as Executive Assistant to a high-powered billionaire demigod, she was given one directive—do NOT fall in love with Castor Dioskouri. Doesn’t matter if he’s the son of Zeus and can electrify a room with a single glance. As an ex-nymph, she possesses a unique ability—a gift from the goddesses to protect nymphs from the randy gods—to resist her boss’s charms.
Or so she thought.
He insists she accompany him to an alpha wolf shifter mating ceremony, an event where the pheromones fly, and so do clothes…and inhibitions.
Goddesses save her, because Castor has stolen into Lyleia’s heart, and she’s not so sure she can hold out much longer…
This novella was previously self published but has undergone a complete re-edit. Scenes were added, things were changed, but the kissing still remains!
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Miss Wonderful by Loretta Chase is $2.99! This is the first book in the Carsington Brothers series, which I know is beloved here. Which book in the series is your favorite? Do you think they hold up?
Alistair Carsington really wishes he didn’t love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from civilization: Derbyshire – in winter!
Once there, he hopes to avoid all temptation, and repay the friend who saved his life on the fields of Waterloo. But this noble aim drops him straight into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a woman every bit as intelligent, obstinate, and devious as he – and maddeningly irresistible.
Mirabel Oldridge already has her hands full keeping her brilliant and aggravatingly eccentric father out of trouble.
The last thing she needs is a stunningly attractive and overbright aristocrat reminding her she has a heart – not to mention a body he claims is so stylishly clothed that undressing her is practically a civic duty.
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The Beast of Beswick by Amalie Howard is 99c! Catherine reviewed this one and gave it a B-:
I enjoyed the complexity of the characters, and I was especially intrigued by Isobel, whose inner life is so opaque to her sister, and yet clearly quite well-developed. There’s a lot of heat and sensuality in the book, and some lovely moments of humour. These are all really big positives.
The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare meets Taming of the Shrew in the start to a new Regency series from award-winning author Amalie Howard.
Lord Nathaniel Harte, the disagreeable Duke of Beswick, spends his days smashing porcelain, antagonizing his servants, and snarling at anyone who gets too close. With a ruined face like his, it’s hard to like much about the world. Especially smart-mouthed harpies―with lips better suited to kissing than speaking―who brave his castle with indecent proposals.
But Lady Astrid Everleigh will stop at nothing to see her younger sister safe from a notorious scoundrel, even if it means offering herself up on a silver platter to the forbidding Beast of Beswick himself. And by offer, she means what no highborn lady of sound and sensible mind would ever dream of―a tender of marriage with her as his bride.
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Haha Amazon tells me I already purchased A Delicate Deception, but I don’t remember reading it. Maybe I bought it after I read the review? I loved the Beast of Beswick, not as much as The Duchess Deal though. And I should probably reread the Carsington brothers books.
Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, FUN HOME, is a KDD for $3.99 today. Bechdel’s memoir of growing up above her family’s funeral home (with a closed-off & closeted father) is creative, poignant, and equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. Highly recommended.
I gave high marks to all the Chase Carsington books but my absolute favorite is Mr. Impossible. So funny, so warm, so deliciously typical of a Chase book.
A note about the Miss Wonderful review: it’s that Mirabel is so UNstylishly clothed that undressing her is practically a civic duty. I loved Alistair, who is totally lovable even if a bit of a lost soul. When he’s sick and Mirabel scolds him for exerting himself to be polite, he tells her that wit and charm come naturally to him so he’s not exerting himself at all – and it’s true, as Chase does wit and charm in her characters so well. The book is a good introduction to the Carsingtons. Alistair’s parents may be at wit’s end to know what to do with him, but it’s clear that they love their son and just want him to find a purpose in life greater than clothes and frippery.
Y’all. The Demigod Complex is the book that got me hooked on Abigail Owen and all things she writes. BTW, I’ve already sent Sarah a note because what’s better than this series??? HER DRAGON SERIES – TWO of them!! So good. Fast paced, strong women, snappy dialogue and a good amount of heat. Did I mention, so good? 🙂 Please enjoy. Now I must contemplate buying Cat’s book even though I’m about 50 book-reads behind my purchases and Christmas bills are coming…darn it!
I bought The Beast of Beswick when it was on sale a few weeks ago, and I inhaled it in about 24 hours. Loved the two main characters, lots of heat and also angst!
Chase’s Carsington books were some of the first romances I ever read (yes, talk about high bars), and here’s my two cents on each:
– Miss Wonderful: From the Episodes of Stupidity there’s too much laugh out loud to quote. Many rereads.
– Mr. Impossible: I might be able to rebuild this book from memory. It is everything, Rupert is one of my top five heroes ever, I want Daphne for a best friend, etc, etc, etc. That said… it happens in Egypt. And it tries, but it is very much racist in the “White people do everything, Egyptians are like this $stereotype unless proximity to good white people.”
– Lord Perfect: I appreciate Bethsheba and Benedict, but the kids steal the show and kept me reading. Many rereadings.
– Not Quite a Lady: Slogged through it once. Never felt like rereading. I just don’t care about Darius. Or her. I do adore the dowager duchess and cronies (from a distance)
– Last Night Scandal’s: It’s the kids from Lord Perfect! Loved some parts, hated others. Depends on the mood I am in when I reread.
In general: Lord and Lady Hargate have done and excellent job of raising and arranging for their kids to marry.
My favorite Carsington book is Lord Perfect. I do not entirely disagree with the general theory that Mr. Impossible is the best book in the series, but there were just so many places in Lord Perfect that I laughed, and I really liked Bathsheba Wingate.
This bestsellers feature is getting embarrassing. Are you sure you didn’t just copy down my purchases? 😉
Thank you, SBTB, for filling my 2020, and my kindle, with great fiction!
I thought Miss Wonderful was ok, but really couldn’t see why the heroine would want to marry the hero. He was sort of a useless lump, and she was busy.