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The Prince of Broadway
The Prince of Broadway by Joanna Shupe is $1.99! I stalled on finishing this one, but these were my thoughts: great chemistry and I love the hero is pretty upfront about wanting revenge on the heroine’s dad. He tells her so. However, it takes place simultaneously with the events of The Rogue of Fifth Avenue, so the dad in question is still terrible to his daughters.
In the second novel in Joanna Shupe’s the Uptown Girl series, a ruthless casino owner bent on revenge finds his plans upended by a beautiful women who proves to be more determined than he is—and too irresistible to deny.
Powerful casino owner.
Ruthless mastermind.
Destroyer of men.He lives in the shadows…
As the owner of the city’s most exclusive casino, Clayton Madden holds the fortunes of prominent families in the palms of his hands every night. There is one particular family he burns to ruin, however, one that has escaped his grasp… until now.
She is society’s darling…
Florence Greene is no one’s fool. She knows Clayton Madden is using her to ruin her prestigious family… and she’s using him right back. She plans to learn all she can from the mysterious casino owner—then open a casino of her own just for women.
With revenge on his mind, Clay agrees to mentor Florence. However, she soon proves more adept—and more alluring—than Clay bargained for. When his plans are threatened, Clay must decide if he is willing to gamble his empire on love.
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How to Forget a Duke
How to Forget a Duke by Vivienne Lorret is $1.99! This is the first book in the Misadventures in Matchmaking series, and Elyse gave this one a B grade:
How to Forget a Duke is a delightfully tropey Regency featuring a hero who goes from loveable curmudgeon to joyfully in love. So how tropey is it, you ask? We’ve got enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, matchmaking, and–hell yeah–amnesia. All of it works, and honestly, this romance is just so fun that it made my day.
The Bourne Matrimonial Agency has one rule: Never fall in love with the client. A simple thing to remember…unless you’re a matchmaker with amnesia.
The Duke of Rydstrom needs a wife. Preferably one with a large fortune and a complete lack of curiosity. The last thing he needs is a meddling matchmaker determined to dig up his dark family secrets.
All Jacinda wants is to find a bride for a duke. How hard could that be? He’s handsome, enigmatic…and hiding something. She’s sure of it. Determined to discover what it is, she travels to his crumbling cliffside estate. Yet, by the time she washes up on his beach, she can no longer remember who she is or why the duke is so familiar to her. All she knows is that his kisses are unforgettable—and she intends to use every skill she can to discover what’s in his heart.
When Miss Bourne can’t remember what brought her to his ancestral home, Rydstrom intends to keep it that way. Yet as the days pass, his true challenge will be safeguarding his secret while resisting this woman who—confound it all—may well be his perfect match.
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The Trouble with Dukes
The Trouble with Dukes by Grace Burrowes is $1.99! There seems to be some Beauty and the Beast elements to this, with an intimidating hero and a heroine who doesn’t mind all of his scary gossip. This begins the new Windham Brides series. Some of the readers thought everything was wrapped up too quickly, but others loved the heroine. Have you read this one?
THEY CALL HIM THE DUKE OF MURDER…
The gossips whisper that the new Duke of Murdoch is a brute, a murderer, and even worse—a Scot. They say he should never be trusted alone with a woman. But Megan Windham sees in Hamish something different, someone different.
No one was fiercer at war than Hamish MacHugh, though now the soldier faces a whole new battlefield: a London Season. To make his sisters happy, he’ll take on any challenge—even letting their friend Miss Windham teach him to waltz. Megan isn’t the least bit intimidated by his dark reputation, but Hamish senses that she’s fighting battles of her own. For her, he’ll become the warrior once more, and for her, he might just lose his heart.
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Hot and Badgered
Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston is 99c! This is the first book in the Honey Badger Chronicles. Sarah read this one and gave it a B grade:
Among my favorite things about Laurenston’s writing is how very affirming and inspiring and a whole lot of fun it is, because angry, fearless women make room for themselves, they get shit done, and they’re the heroines. More honey badgers, please.
It’s not every day that a beautiful naked woman falls out of the sky and lands face-first on grizzly shifter Berg Dunn’s hotel balcony. Definitely they don’t usually hop up and demand his best gun. Berg gives the lady a grizzly-sized t-shirt and his cell phone, too, just on style points. And then she’s gone, taking his XXXL heart with her. By the time he figures out she’s a honey badger shifter, it’s too late.
Honey badgers are survivors. Brutal, vicious, ill-tempered survivors. Or maybe Charlie Taylor-MacKilligan is just pissed that her useless father is trying to get them all killed again, and won’t even tell her how. Protecting her little sisters has always been her job, and she’s not about to let some pesky giant grizzly protection specialist with a network of every shifter in Manhattan get in her way. Wait. He’s trying to help? Why would he want to do that? He’s cute enough that she just might let him tag along—that is, if he can keep up . . .
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No cover models with strategically placed towels today then
@Kit: Alas!
@Kit: perhaps perennial Smart Bitches favorite hot cover, Brenda Rothert’s ANTON, will fill the bill today. Not a towel in sight!
https://www.amazon.com/Anton-Chicago-Blaze-Hockey-Romance-ebook/dp/B07K6JXZGS/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=brenda+rothert+chicago+blaze&qid=1626797180&sprefix=brenda+rothert&sr=8-6
All those Chicago Blaze covers are hot AF—although sometimes the ice skates seem a little too close to pivotal areas!
@DiscoDollyDeb Wow, those covers are not subtle. I love them. Olivier looks a little overdressed there.
But are the books any good?! Not that I need any more bought but unread books.
Back to today’s deals. I think Prince of Broadway was my favorite of the trilogy and cemented my realization that I like characters who run a criminal and/or semi-legal enterprise.
@DiscoDollyDeb – I showed that Anton cover to a friend who played hockey and her only comment was “he doesn’t have a hockey butt”.
@footiepjs: I know some readers really enjoyed ANTON (cw/tw: the heroine has been in an abusive relationship), but here is what I posted on WAYR when I tried to read it in September of 2019:
Now I must confess to a bit of a quandary: I have been trying to make it through Brenda Rothert’s hockey romance, ANTON—which is famous (or infamous) around these parts for its hot AF cover featuring my alternate-universe boyfriend, Zack Salaun, sporting three-days’ worth of beard scruff, a distinctive thigh tattoo, and…nothing else. Anyway, while ANTON is undeniably well-written with a serious plot involving a woman who is trying to leave an abusive marriage and the hockey player who has silently loved her for years, nothing about the story is really grabbing me and making me want to continue reading it; I’ve started and finished four other books while reading a few pages of ANTON here and there. I almost feel that the promise of that spectacular cover overshadows what seems to be a good, if not great, book. Could it be that, as when I use the term “Brooklynaire Syndrome” for anytime we have had to wait so long for a couple’s story that the actual book turns out to be a bit of a letdown, so I now must introduce to the Romancelandia lexicon the phrase “Anton Syndrome” for when a story fails to live up to the promise of its cover? (Although, in all fairness, it would take a really stupendous book to match the cover of ANTON.) I think I’m going to have to DNF ANTON, at least for the time being, with the old standby: it’s not you, it’s me.
I absolutely bought ANTON because of the cover. The story engaged me, good conflict between MCs, issues to be resolved, familial and otherwise. I would give it a B. @DDD, maybe try again some time. Or not. We’ll always have the cover.
@DDD
Love the term Booklynaire Syndrome, lol! Too accurate!
@footiepjs-I liked the Chicago Blaze series enough to buy all the books, and it wasn’t just for the covers! I’m a big fan of hockey romances, and I do love the immersion of reading a series about one team, and having the same characters keep popping up.
I liked the Shupe and Burrowes, if I remember right!
This talk of strategically placed towels has me wondering – has there ever been a cover with the towel in the same position as the one on the front of Nicholas except… hands-free?
@Lucy: Not for sale at any major retailer. “Suggestive” is tricky enough to get past obscenity filters. (Don’t even get me started on the perils of sideboob.) “Obvious boner” would get cockblocked.
Audiobook deals, historical romance:
1.99 – Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers #1) – Lisa Kleypas
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780062992529-secrets-of-a-summer-night
1.99 – The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780062672179-the-wallflower-wager
Check your preferred retailers.
I think LibroFM only sells to USA/Canada.
Loved the Trouble with Dukes. Great, hulking, gruff hero and a sensible woman not intimidated by him in the least. That’s catnip for me!