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The Princess Trap
RECOMMENDED: The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert is 99c! Yes, it did get a cover redesign by the same artist who did the new illustrated cover of Tikka Chance on Me. Elyse read this one and gave it an A-:
The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert made me feel really good. It was the read I needed for a crappy day and it went down like a hot cup of tea followed by a cookie.
He’s reckless, dominant, and deliciously dirty. This prince is no fairytale.
Prince Ruben of Helgmøre knows exactly what he wants—and his current obsession is Cherry Neita. Everything from her rollercoaster curves to her fearsome attitude commands his attention.
And best of all? She has no idea who Ruben is.
Until the paparazzi catch them in a dark alley, her scarlet lipstick smudged, and his hands somewhere naughty…
All Cherry wanted was a night or two with the hottest man she’d ever seen. Turns out, that man is actually a prince, and now he needs her to play princess.
Well, princess-to-be. One year as his fake fiancée, and he’ll make all her problems disappear. Easy. Right?
Wrong.
The closer Cherry gets to Ruben, the brighter their passion burns. But the royal family hides dark secrets, and their palace is a diamond-studded trap.
Can true love bloom from false beginnings? Or will this fairytale end in a happy-never-after?
The Princess Trap is a steamy, standalone BWWM royal romance. Warning: this book is 70,000+ words of extreme pleasure and intense romance, ending in a HEA. NO cliffhangers and NO cheating. Enjoy responsibly!
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Quiet
RECOMMENDED: Quiet by Susan Cain is $2.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals, which also include some romance. Sarah loved this book and I picked it up on her recommendation. She gave it an A:
This is a bit outside the romance genre, to say the least, but this book was deeply fascinating for me. If you’re an introvert, and have sometimes wondered what was wrong with you that you feel or experience things so differently, I think your experience might be similar to my own, and the experience of the people who recommended this book to me.
The book that started the Quiet Revolution
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.
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Seduced by a Stranger
Seduced by a Stranger by Eve Silver is 99c! This is a Gothic historical romance and the fifth in a series. The first in the series is FREE! There are mysteries and murder, but some readers were put off by how descriptive some of the crime scenes were.
Destitute and desperate, Catherine Weston accepts the summons from her childhood friend Madeline St. Aubyn to attend her at Cairncroft Abbey, a place of secrets, lies and murder. Madeline’s health is in a poor state and she is terrified of her cousin, Gabriel. But Gabriel has quite a different effect on Catherine, stirring longings and desires she believed long buried.
Gabriel St. Aubyn is haunted by the horrors of both his past and his present, horrors he conceals behind a remote, unapproachable facade. He is drawn to Catherine, but is determined to protect her from the tragedies that yet have claws sunk deep in his soul.
Then a young woman is found dead, and Madeline’s ravings point to a link between this horrific crime and Gabriel—and Catherine must decide if he is a man worthy of her love or a sinister stranger determined to make her his next victim.
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Murder on the Last Frontier
RECOMMENDED: Murder on the Last Frontier by Cathy Pegau is $1.99! Carrie reviewed this book earlier this year and gave it a B+:
This is, of course, an ongoing series, so the romance and other personal issues are not wrapped up in each individual book. However, each book ends with a solved mystery. Despite all the mayhem, I’m finding the books to be quite comforting. Now if I could just get some good Phryne Fisher/Charlotte Brody fanfic going!
There’s many who feel the Alaska Territory is no place for a woman on her own. But Charlotte Brody, suffragette and journalist, has never let public opinion dictate her life choices. She’s come to the frontier town of Cordova, where her brother Michael practices medicine, for the same reason many come to Alaska—to start over.
Cordova is gradually getting civilized, but the town is still rougher than Charlotte imagined. And when a local prostitute—one of the working girls her brother has been treating—is found brutally murdered, Charlotte learns firsthand how rough the frontier can be. Although the town may not consider the murder of a prostitute worthy of investigation, Charlotte’s feminist beliefs motivate her to seek justice for the woman. And there’s something else—the woman was hiding a secret, one that reminds Charlotte of her own painful past.
As Charlotte searches for answers, she soon finds her own life in danger from a cold-blooded killer desperate to keep dark secrets from seeing the light of day…
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I haven’t read Quiet, but I’m a “Capital E” extrovert married to an introvert, and 4 of our 5 kids are introverts. I’ve mellowed with age, but my very extroverted personality was a boon and a challenge to married life and parenting. For my marriage,it’s worked very well. My husband started enjoying gatherings of people because he had me to run interference. I can talk to anyone, so he stayed by me and I fielded the conversation until he felt comfortable.
Parenting introverts was much more challenging, since I didn’t understand them as well as I should have, even being married to one. I made assumptions and put them in situations (play dates, group activities) that made them uncomfortable and withdrawn. I learned over time and it got easier, and I really appreciate my (now grown) children and their wonderful depths.
I’m isolated at home this year with my husband and three of my introverted children, and at times it has been a challenge, because I need more interaction than they do, but we’ve had good conversations about it and found ways to meet my need for company with their needs for alone time.
I’m not a huge fan of illustrated covers, but I’m so glad the cover for THE PRINCESS TRAP was redesigned. The original featured a guy smoking either a cigar or a cigarette. Ummm, no thanks. I think that cover may have been replaced by another cover before this new one. The new cover is much truer to the spirit of the book and the dynamic between the MCs.
The Silver books are completely unrelated standalones, so don’t worry about it being #5 if it otherwise interests you.
As an introvert, I must admit I never worried what was wrong with me. I had people tell me that I ought to be more social as a child, but they were just obviously wrong.
More of an issue: Some part of me still doesn’t believe that extroverts want to spend time around people. (How could they? Social events are torture.) Intellectually, I accept this is probably true. But… my gut response is always that they’re faking it and must have some nefarious ulterior motive for that. And the more often they try to arrange activities, the more nefarious that motive must be.
I think this is the 3rd PRINCESS TRAP cover! I hated the first one, so this is an upgrade in my book.
I really enjoyed the first two Charlotte Brody mysteries, but the third one was awful and I couldn’t even get through it.
I adore Talia Hibbert’s work so much and haven’t read TPT yet, so I one-clicked it.
The princess trap is also 99c on apple books :)!
@WS, LOL! I can assure you, I love parties and gatherings, and don’t get upset in large crowds. No nefarious plans. But my husband and children totally agree with you. Even growing up with me they think I’m an odd duck. When my oldest child was 6 and I was chatting with the ladies in front of me in line at a store (I’d never met them) she said “I don’t understand how you can talk to everyone! You could talk to a wall!” The only reason they don’t think I’m completely crazy is that my brother is even more gregarious and outgoing than I am. They love him, but can only take him and his boisterous family in small doses.
I will say that the older I’ve gotten the more I like quiet time and staying at home. I’m not sure if all extroverts get that way, or if my introverted family has rubbed off on me.
No exaggeration, Quiet changed my life. I’m very introverted, but I’m also highly reactive, and and while I don’t think I thought there was something wrong with me because of the introversion itself, I’ve suffered for the high reactivity my entire life. I’m highly reactive even by the standards of highly reactive people, and it was always treated as this terrible flaw or dismissed as “melodrama,” and I tried so hard to Toughen Up and not be like that but couldn’t change it no matter what I did or how many people punished me for it. Learning that it’s just a form of neurodivergency with parallels in many other non-human species, not even a disorder, changed everything. (It also made me furious at everyone, but maybe I earned that.)
@DiscoDollyDeb: You’re right, the guy on the first cover chomping on a big fat cigar looked like a douche, so nice to see a new cover. But otoh, I’m really tired of illustrated, cartoony covers on every book, whether or not they fit the story inside.