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The Lady Traveler’s Guide to Scoundrels and Other Gentlemen
The Lady Travelers Guide to Scoundrels and Other Gentlemen by Victoria Alexander is $1.99! This is the first book in the Lady Travelers Society series and it has, you guessed it, lady travelers. Readers say the plot takes a while to pick up, but others say this historical romance is both sweet and funny.
Embark on the breathtaking romantic adventures of The Lady Travelers Society in the brand-new series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander
Really, it’s too much to expect any normal man to behave like a staid accountant in order to inherit the fortune he deserves to support the lifestyle of an earl. So when Derek Saunders’s favorite elderly aunt and her ill-conceived—and possibly fraudulent—Lady Travelers Society loses one of their members, what’s a man to do but step up to the challenge? Now he’s escorting the world’s most maddening woman to the world’s most romantic city to find her missing relative.
While India Prendergast only suspects his organization defrauds gullible travelers, she’s certain a man with as scandalous a reputation as Derek Saunders cannot be trusted any farther than the distance around his very broad shoulders. As she struggles not to be distracted by his wicked smile and the allure of Paris, instead of finding a lost lady traveler, India just may lose her head, her luggage and her heart.
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The One You Can’t Forget
RECOMMENDED: The One You Can’t Forget by Roni Loren is $1.99! I love this series and highly recommend any of the books in it. However, please be warned that it deals with the aftermath of a school shooting. The first book is FREE and the rest are also discounted.
Most days Rebecca Lindt feels like an imposter…
The world admires her as a survivor. But that impression would crumble if people knew her secret. She didn’t deserve to be the one who got away. But nothing can change the past, so she’s thrown herself into her work. She can’t dwell if she never slows down.Wes Garrett is trying to get back on his feet after losing his dream restaurant, his money, and half his damn mind in a vicious divorce. But when he intervenes in a mugging and saves Rebecca―the attorney who helped his ex ruin him―his simple life gets complicated.
Their attraction is inconvenient and neither wants more than a fling. But when Rebecca’s secret is put at risk, both discover they could lose everything, including what they never realized they needed: each other
She laughed and kissed him. This morning she’d melted down. But somehow this man had her laughing and turned on only a few hours later. Everything inside her felt buoyed.
She felt…light.
She’d forgotten what that felt like.
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Arctic Sun
Arctic Sun by Annabeth Albert is $1.99! This is a relatively recent release and features an opposites attract romance. Fans of Albert say this one has a slower burn of a romance than Albert’s usual stuff and content warning for disordered eating and discussion of sobriety.
Everything’s bigger in Alaska, especially the HEAs. Annabeth Albert kicks off the brand-new Frozen Hearts series with Arctic Sun, an opposites-attract romance between a rugged outdoorsman and a smoking hot former male model.
He’s built a quiet life for himself in Alaska. But it doesn’t stand a chance against the unrelenting pull of a man who’s everything he shouldn’t want.
Ex-military mountain man Griffin Barrett likes his solitude. It keeps him from falling back into old habits. Bad habits. He’s fought too hard for his sobriety to lose control now. However, his gig as a wildlife guide presents a new kind of temptation in superhot supermodel River Vale. Nothing the Alaskan wilderness has to offer has ever called to Griffin so badly. And that can only lead to trouble…
River has his own methods for coping. Chasing adventure means always moving forward. Nobody’s ever made him want to stand still—until Griffin. The rugged bush pilot is the very best kind of distraction, but the emotions he stirs up in River feel anything but casual, and he’s in no position to stay put.
With temptation lurking in close quarters, keeping even a shred of distance is a challenge neither’s willing to meet. And the closer Griffin gets to River, the easier it is to ignore every last reason he should run.
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That Inevitable Victorian Thing
That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston is $2.99! This is a young adult speculative historical fiction novel, I think? It sounds like there’s a lot going on. Some of our readers have loved Johnston’s other titles, mainly The Afterward, so if you wanted to try their earlier stuff, this is a good option.
Speculative fiction from the #1 bestselling author of Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Star Wars: Ahsoka.
Set in a near-future world where the British Empire never fell and the United States never rose, That Inevitable Victorian Thing is a surprising, delightful, and thought-provoking novel of love, duty, and the small moments that can change people and the world.
Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendent of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history two centuries earlier. The imperial practice of genetically arranged matchmaking will soon guide Margaret into a politically advantageous marriage like her mother before her, but before she does her duty, she’ll have one summer incognito in a far corner of empire. In Toronto, she meets Helena Marcus, daughter of one of the empire’s greatest placement geneticists, and August Callaghan, the heir apparent to a powerful shipping firm currently besieged by American pirates. In a summer of high-society debutante balls, politically charged tea parties, and romantic country dances, Margaret, Helena, and August discover they share an unusual bond and maybe a one in a million chance to have what they want and to change the world in the process —just like the first Queen Victoria.
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Oh, my, another lovely beautiful cover on a fantasy/speculative fiction book. Why aren’t these artists designing for contemporaries and historical fiction, hmmm?
Jen Deluca’s Well Played is on sale for 1.99 at Amazon. It’s the second book in her Well Met series. I haven’t read Well Met yet, but I bought it for kindle last year because reviews were very good. $1.99 seems like a great buy for the second book and a third book appears to be on its way.
I enjoyed Arctic Sun on audio. It’s a good romance that I gave a B. Unfortunately I didn’t care for the second or third books in this series, although YMMV. (Some people were fine with the second book, Arctic Wild, but it has a very bratty teen and meddling family members, both of which are big no-nos for me.) Annabeth Albert is one of my favorite authors of m/m, however, and her Out of Uniform and Hotshots series are stronger overall.
@LML: the cover artist is Elizabeth Traynor. She does a wide variety of work in different styles. If you’d like to see more of her gorgeous work, clickety click: https://elizabethtraynor.com/
As far as contemporaries/historicals go, I would think it’s cheaper to use the in-house art department than to commission freelance work, especially for a particular line that adds books every month.
The one you can’t forget is the best of the series, IMHO, followed closely by the third. The opening scene, where the heroine is shown in action in her job as divorce lawyer is just great. I’d never thought I’d willingly read a book that deals with survivors of a school shooting, but Loren handles this subject with care and respect.
Captive Dreams by Cara C. Putnam is free
Just Say Yes by Cindy Kirk is free
I thought Arctic Sun was OK but not great. Here’s my GR review
3.5 / 5 stars. I generally enjoy Annabeth Albert’s tropey m/m, with the exception of several of her attempts at hurt / comfort. Like this one. I’m starting to think she’s too optimistic a writer to pull it off in a way that works for me.
Recovering alcoholic, bush pilot and vet who’s hoping to solve/ avoid his problems by staying on his family’s compound in Alaska meets former model and current travel writer recovering from an eating disorder hoping to solve/ avoid his problems by traveling around the world. They spend an intense week (just a week? Maybe 2 weeks? Don’t remember) touring the Alaskan wilderness, flirting and resisting and then falling into bed. Then they have to figure what’s between them and how to make it work when they’re not hiking in the mountains.
I did really like that after the Dark Moment, when they both realize that they didn’t have their respective stuff as together as they’d thought, they each reach out to other people for support, including professionals, before getting back together.
But overall I felt like the timeline and the emotions were rushed and I had trouble connecting with them as a couple.
@Margarita, The One You Can’t Forget was my favourite in the series. They are all good and dealt with a serious topic very sensitively. Highly recommended.