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  • How the Dukes Stole Christmas

    How the Dukes Stole Christmas by Tessa Dare

    How the Dukes Stole Christmas is $1.99! This is a historical holiday romance anthology from some major historical romance writers. Elyse reviewed this one and gave it a C. Her main critique was that the novellas felt uneven in terms of her enjoyment.

    Christmas magic is in the air… From the ballrooms of London, to abandoned Scottish castles, to the snowy streets of Gilded Age New York, four bestselling authors whip up some unforgettable romance…with a little help from some enchanted shortbread.

    “Meet Me in Mayfair” by Tessa Dare
    Louisa Ward needs a Christmas miracle. Unless she catches a wealthy husband at the ball tonight, the horrid, heartless Duke of Thorndale will evict her family from their beloved Mayfair home. But when her friend begs to switch dance cards, Louisa finds herself waltzing with the enemy: the horrid, heartless–and unexpectedly handsome–Thorndale himself. Now the duke’s holding her future in his hands…and he’s not letting go.

    “The Duke of Christmas Present” by Sarah MacLean
    Rich and ruthless, Eben, Duke of Allryd, has no time for holidays. Holidays are for whimsy and charm–the only two things his money cannot buy. Lady Jacqueline Mosby is full of both, even now, twelve years after she left to see the world. When Jacqueline returns for a single Christmas, Eben can’t resist the woman he never stopped loving…or the future that had once been in reach. It will take a miracle to convince her to stay…but if ever there were a time for miracles, it’s Christmas…

    “Heiress Alone” by Sophie Jordan
    When Annis Bannister’s family leaves her behind in the rush to escape an impending snowstorm, she finds herself stranded in the Highlands, left to fend off brigands terrorizing the countryside, robbing homes locked up for winter. Her only hope falls on her neighbor, a surly hermit duke who unravels her with a look, then a kiss … until she fears the danger to her heart outweighs the danger of brigands and snowstorms.

    “Christmas in Central Park” by Joanna Shupe
    Women all over America devour Mrs. Walker’s weekly column for recipes and advice. No one knows Rose, the column’s author, can’t even boil water. When the paper’s owner, Duke Havemeyer, insists she host a Christmas party, Rose must scramble to find a husband, an empty mansion, and a cook. But Duke is not a man easily fooled and she fears her perfect plan is failing–especially when Duke’s attentions make her feel anything but professional. To save her career will she give up her chance at love?

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  • The Trouble with Mistletoe

    The Trouble with Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis

    RECOMMENDED: The Trouble with Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis is $1.99! Elyse gave this one an A:

    Jill Shalvis is one of those authors that I turn to for comfort reads; her books are always sexy, funny and emotionally satisfying. She writes pure Elyse-nip. That said, The Trouble with Mistletoe might be my favorite book of hers ever. It made me horny and it made me cry.

    If she has her way…

    Willa Davis is wrangling puppies when Keane Winters stalks into her pet shop with frustration in his chocolate-brown eyes and a pink bedazzled cat carrier in his hand. He needs a kitty sitter, stat. But the last thing Willa needs is to rescue a guy who doesn’t even remember her…

    He’ll get nothing but coal in his stocking.

    Saddled with his great-aunt’s Feline from Hell, Keane is desperate to leave her in someone else’s capable hands. But in spite of the fact that he’s sure he’s never seen the drop-dead-gorgeous pet shop owner before, she seems to be mad at him…

    Unless he tempers “naughty” with a special kind of nice…

    Willa can’t deny that Keane’s changed since high school: he’s less arrogant, for one thing—but can she trust him not to break her heart again? It’s time to throw a coin in the fountain, make a Christmas wish—and let the mistletoe do its work…

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  • The Spring Girls

    The Spring Girls by Anna Todd

    The Spring Girls by Anna Todd is $1.99! This is a modern Little Women retelling and some of the reviews are yikes. Some are valid of course, but others refer to the “sluttiness” of one of the characters. That’s the risk you run, I suppose, about doing a retelling of a book readers have strong feelings about. Also, not a Little Women fan personally.

    Four sisters desperately seeking the blueprints to life—the modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women like only Anna Todd (After, Imagines) could do.

    The Spring Girls—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—are a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live. As different as they are, with their father on tour in Iraq and their mother hiding something, their fears are very much the same. Struggling to build lives they can be proud of and that will lift them out of their humble station in life, one year will determine all that their futures can become.

    The oldest, Meg, will be an officer’s wife and enter military society like so many of the women she admires. If her passion—and her reputation—don’t derail her.

    Beth, the workhorse of the family, is afraid to leave the house, is afraid she’ll never figure out who she really is.

    Jo just wants out. Wishing she could skip to graduation, she dreams of a life in New York City and a career in journalism where she can impact the world. Nothing can stop her—not even love.

    And Amy, the youngest, is watching all her sisters, learning from how they handle themselves. For better or worse.

    With plenty of sass, romance, and drama, The Spring Girls revisits Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, and brings its themes of love, war, class, adolescence, and family into the language of the twenty-first century.

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  • A Devil of a Duke

    A Devil of a Duke by Madeline Hunter

    A Devil of a Duke by Madeline Hunter is $1.99! This is the second book in the Decadent Dukes Society, but can be read on its own. If you are a completionist, the first book is also on sale. Readers say this one has a great pace to the romance and action, but wish it had more emotional depth. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.

    From New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter comes the latest sexy tale of three untamable dukes and the women who ignite their decadent desires . . .

    HE MAY BE A DEVIL

    He’s infamous, debaucherous, and known all over town for his complete disregard for scandal, and positively irresistible seductions. Gabriel St. James, Duke of Langford, is obscenely wealthy, jaw-droppingly handsome, and used to getting exactly what he wants. Until his attention is utterly captured by a woman who refuses to tell him her name, but can’t help surrendering to his touch . . .

    BUT SHE’S NO ANGEL EITHER . . .

    Amanda Waverly is living two lives—one respectable existence as secretary to an upstanding lady, and one far more dangerous battle of wits—and willpower—with the devilish Duke. Langford may be the most tempting man she’s ever met, but Amanda’s got her hands full trying to escape the world of high-society crime into which she was born. And if he figures out who she really is, their sizzling passion will suddenly boil over into a much higher stakes affair . . .

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  1. Dee says:

    Passionflix also made a movie version of Trouble with Mistletoe that I love. You can buy it through Amazon Prime Video.

  2. I just read How the Dukes Stole Christmas a few days ago! SO. DANG. SWOONWORTHY. I don’t think I can pick a favorite (they’re all so good), but “Christmas in Central Park” gets bonus points from me because it brings me back to my journalism days. I’m making it a mission to read as many Christmas romances as possible before the holiday!

  3. Lucy Kemnitzer says:

    The Spring Grils is an automatic no for me, because “Dad is career army in Iraq and kids live on a military base” is so much not a “modern translation” of “Dad has signed up to fight against slavery is the Civil War and kids live in a hotbed of radical thought in both political and cultural realms” that it seems pointless to even begin the project.

    I’m not that fond of Little Women either, and I certainly don’t think there’s any onus on a writer to “be true to the inspiration text,” but…this particular setup is the opposite of appealing to me.

  4. Kit says:

    After trying to read ‘After’ on Wattpad I’ll give Anna Todd a wide berth. Hats off to her for being a success but After was absolutely dreadful.

  5. MsCellanie says:

    @Lucy Kemnitzer – I agree. I’ve also not read LW for many a year. But Marmee* wasn’t holding any deep dark secrets. And whoever put Mr. March as career military wasn’t paying attention to the original. Nor would it have them raised on a military base. If anything a modern retelling would have him joining some overseas NGO (that paid nothing or a tiny stipend) in an attempt to save the world. And the girls would have been raised in a commune or part of some “unschooling” group.

  6. MsCellanie says:

    * also I only realized when I was an adult that with a Marmee would be pronounced with a Boston “r” and would sound like “Mahmee” and not the way I’d heard it in my head when I was little.

  7. Lisa F says:

    As a Little Women Stan who’s read Spring Girls, it’s just an OK modernization of the material, military-industrial complex propping aside. Better is The Little Women by Katharine Weber, though it does make some eyebrow raising choices. Avoid at all cost stuff like Little Women and Werewolves, which actually sails the Mr. Laurence/Beth ship and includes her gruesome death by werewolves.

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