The Heiress Gets a Duke
RECOMMENDED: The Heiress Gets a Duke by Harper St. George is $2.99! I’m not much of a historical romance reader these days, but this one blew me away:
I was charmed by this book. Completely.
Even a fortune forged in railroads and steel can’t buy entrance into the upper echelons of Victorian high society—for that you need a marriage of convenience.
American heiress August Crenshaw has aspirations. But unlike her peers, it isn’t some stuffy British Lord she wants wrapped around her finger—it’s Crenshaw Iron Works, the family business. When it’s clear that August’s outrageously progressive ways render her unsuitible for a respectable match, her parents offer up her younger sister to the highest entitled bidder instead. This simply will not do. August refuses to leave her sister to the mercy of a loveless marriage.
Evan Sterling, the Duke of Rothschild, has no intention of walking away from the marriage. He’s recently inherited the title only to find his coffers empty, and with countless lives depending on him, he can’t walk away from the fortune a Crenshaw heiress would bring him. But after meeting her fiery sister, he realizes Violet isn’t the heiress he wants. He wants August, and he always gets what he wants.
But August won’t go peacefully to her fate. She decides to show Rothschild that she’s no typical London wallflower. Little does she realize that every stunt she pulls to make him call off the wedding only makes him like her even more.
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Fated by Rebecca Zanetti is $2.99! This is a paranormal romance with what seems to be a marriage of convenience trope. Some readers thought the plot was a but over the top, while others said they couldn’t put this one down. It’s the first book in the Dark Protectors series and has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
Marry Me
Cara Paulsen does not give up easily. A scientist and a single mother, she’s used to fighting for what she wants, keeping a cool head, and doing whatever it takes to protect her daughter Janie. But “whatever it takes” has never before included a shotgun wedding to a dangerous-looking stranger with an attitude problem…
Or Else
Sure, the mysterious Talen says that he’s there to protect Cara and Janie. He also says that he’s a three-hundred-year-old vampire. Of course, the way he touches her, Cara might actually believe he’s had that long to practice…
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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver is $2.99! Like with the last time I featured a Josie Silver book on sale – One Day in December – there appears to be some differences on how to categorize this. Most people seem to call this fiction with strong romantic elements, but not necessarily a romance. Would you agree or disagree?
In a thrilling love story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December, a young woman is reunited with her late fiancé in a parallel life. But is this happy ending right for her?
Lydia Bird is living a happy, normal little life–she has a good job, a wonderful fiancé, Freddie, and the usual daily dramas of buying groceries and being in a relationship. And then everything stops: Freddie is killed in a car crash on his way to pick up his best friend, Jonas. Her world bottoms out.
Lydia retreats from the company of her sister, her mother, and from Jonas, the only other person who understands her loss. Alone and adrift, she seeks a small amount of solace in the sleeping pills her doctor prescribes for her, which give her relief in the form of abnormally deep sleep. But they also come with an increasingly complicated gift: Whenever she takes a pill, she emerges in another world. A world in which Freddie is still alive.
And so Lydia returns again and again to the doorway of her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. In one, her relationship with Freddie and her friendship with Jonas move along as scheduled, and in the other, that same friendship begins to become something else, something very unexpected and yet thrillingly familiar.
Written with Josie Silver’s trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful love story, by turns joyous and devastating, about the questions of fate and chance that we find at life’s crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given the painful, miraculous chance to answer them.
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Hungry Like the Wolf by Paige Tyler is FREE! This is book one in her newest paranormal romance series, SWAT. The Dallas SWAT team is actually made up of shifters. Who knew? The books comes with a big cast of alpha men, and readers are already anticipating their favorites’ future books. Although some felt the world building could have been a little stronger.
The Dallas SWAT team is hiding one helluva secret . . . they’re a pack of wolf shifters.
The team of elite sharpshooters is ultra-secretive—and also the darlings of Dallas. This doesn’t sit well with investigative journalist Mackenzie Stone. They must be hiding something . . . and she’s determined to find out what.
Keeping Mac at a distance proves impossible for SWAT team commander Gage Dixon. She’s smart, sexy, and makes him feel alive for the first time in years. But she’s getting dangerously close to the truth—and perilously close to his heart…
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GIRL, SERPENT, THORN by Melissa Bashardoust is $2.99. “An alluring feminist fairy tale about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse.”
THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson is $1.99. “A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut.”
BLACKTOP WASTELAND by S. A. Cosby is $2.99. “Like Ocean’s Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist.”
What? No mention that Network Effect, the Murderbot novel by Martha Wells, is $2.99 at Amazon US? Grab it at that price, it’s a great deal!
Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews, book 5 in the Hidden Legacy series, is also $2.99 at Amazon. I wouldn’t start with this book, but it’s a fun series.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown, by Talia Hibbert, is $1.99. I know Hibbert is a favorite around here.
Since I already have the first three books I mentioned, I’m picking up the 3rd lady astronaut book by Mary Robinette Kowal, The Relentless Moon, also $2.99 at Amazon US.
I really liked The Two Lives of Lydia Bird and would call it fiction with romantic elements, not romance. I liked it in that it was a book where no one is really a “bad guy” (although some people have made mistakes) and the main character (spoiler alert?) comes to terms with her grief in a way that felt very realistic to me.
And I usually steer away from “women’s fiction” b/c it feels too downbeat, but even though this was about grief, it didn’t feel that way to me.
B&N has a 25% off preorders coupon today. Only works on physical books though.
Two things re FATED:
1. he’s pulling those pants awful low… (yeah, I looked – I’m old. I’m not dead)
2. Um. Those fingernails (fingerclaws?) look kinda scary for an erotic romance.
That’s it. Carry on.
🙂
xo
Peace Talks by Jim Butcher, and Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs are both $1.99 today on Amazon.
@Musette: are you unfamiliar with the joys that are the covers of the Dark Protectors books? In addition to featuring hot models who are seemingly in a competition to see how low on the hips they can have their pants without violating any community standards, the covers also almost always feature the Dark Protectors logo hovering somewhere in the vicinity of the model’s crotch—just in case, ya know, you forget where it’s located.
Dark protectors cover has featured on a cover snark if I recall!
The Duke of Rothschild? Seriously?
@Etv13: I thought the Rothschilds were only Barons. Not only that, but his name is Sterling? As in pounds Sterling? Which he apparently doesn’t have any of?
Add the Welsh name Evan and you have the worst name ever chosen for an English duke. How hard is it to choose a name for a regency/ victorian romance duke?
Take a leaf from Georgette Heyer. Get a map of Cornwall, Devon or Dorset and choose a likely sounding village name and check it isn’t already an aristocratic name (Thank you wikipedia) then look up first names popular at the time…
I have a cousin whose first name is Sterling. I think it is a Scottish surname as well. But yeah, this level of inattention to detail and verisimilitude means I am very unlikely to pick up this book, despite the generally positive reviews.
As far as I can tell from Wikipedia and a lifetime of reading Georgette Heyer, ducal titles are almost invariably place names, not the family names of families originally from Germany.
One of the multitude of reasons I’ve gravitated away from HR in the past few years is the complete wtf-ery of the names. It’s not that hard to pick a name that won’t stick out like an enormous anachronistic sore thumb. Looking for a heroine’s name? Check the names of English queens and princesses from 1500 to 1900; pick one. Looking for a hero’s name? Kings and princes from same. A duke’s title? Throw a dart at a map of England. If you accidentally hit a place in Wales or Scotland, you better work that ancestry into the storyline somehow. I know it might be boring to realize that every other woman was an Elizabeth, Anne, or Charlotte and every other man was a James, William, or George, but that’s simply how those things worked. Plus, if I can’t trust a writer on a simple thing like names, what can I trust they’ll get right? By the time I opened a Regency with a heroine named Skylar, I knew it was time to switch up the genres I was reading.
/And stay off my lawn!
Or just steal them (the first names anyway) from Jane Austen — who was so wedded to verisimilitude she even gave characters her own, very common, first name.