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Miss Wonderful
Miss Wonderful by Loretta Chase is $2.99! This is the first book in the Carsington Brothers series, which I know is beloved here. Which book in the series is your favorite? Do you think they hold up?
Alistair Carsington really wishes he didn’t love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from civilization: Derbyshire – in winter!
Once there, he hopes to avoid all temptation, and repay the friend who saved his life on the fields of Waterloo. But this noble aim drops him straight into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a woman every bit as intelligent, obstinate, and devious as he – and maddeningly irresistible.
Mirabel Oldridge already has her hands full keeping her brilliant and aggravatingly eccentric father out of trouble.
The last thing she needs is a stunningly attractive and overbright aristocrat reminding her she has a heart – not to mention a body he claims is so stylishly clothed that undressing her is practically a civic duty.
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Make Me Want
Make Me Want by Katee Robert is $2.99! This is an erotic contemporary workplace romance. I know workplace romances are either love ’em or hate ’em, though I tend to enjoy Robert’s romances for the most part. Which is all to say that I’m on the fence at the moment. It also looks like more books in this series are $2.99.
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Katee Robert brings you the first installment of her brand-new Make Me series. Meet four women who know what they want and the four men who will give it to them!
Lucy Baudin’s ex did a number on her self-esteem, but it’s time for her to regain control. She’s about to make partner at her law firm and having a husband by her side would prove she’s settled and serious. As a lawyer she’s bold and confident. But in the bedroom, she needs inspiration to reawaken her inner seductress. Asking her friend Gideon Novak for help seems wrong…yet so deliciously right!
Headhunter Gideon Novak is shocked when Lucy hires him…to hunt her future husband! Their chemistry is electric, but Lucy was once engaged to his best friend, so he’s never acted on it. Now he’ll set his attraction aside once more to help her. She doesn’t need love, just a partnership, and when she proposes bedroom lessons, he can’t deny her. But the more time they spend together, the more Gideon wants to be there for Lucy—not just for hire but full-time, forever.
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Going Down Easy
Going Down Easy by Erin Nicholas is $2.99! This is the first book in the Boys of the Big Easy contemporary romance series. Both characters in this one are single parents, if that happens to be your catnip. Some readers said it took a while to warm up to the heroine in the beginning, but said it was worth pushing through.
Hot fling or real thing? There are no Big Easy answers in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Erin Nicholas’s sultry series.
As far as flings go, single dad Gabe Trahan is pretty sure that Addison Sloan is his best bet. Once a month, Addison comes to New Orleans and then…It. Is. On. Until Addison returns to New York, it’s just hot, happily-no-strings-attached sex. And beignets. And jazz. But lately for Gabe, it isn’t nearly enough.
Sure, maybe Addison’s gotten a bit hooked on Gabe. After all, who can resist a guy who’s so sexy, so charming, and so…available? But maybe he’s too available for her right now. Addison’s just moved to New Orleans, and relationships are definitely off the table. Besides, guys always bail when they learn her secret: she’s a single mom.
Only Gabe’s not running. Worse, he’s thrilled. But Addison never signed up for ever-after romance, and Gabe won’t settle for anything less. Now it’s a battle of wills—and when it comes to the woman he’s falling for, Gabe isn’t above playing a little dirty.
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Frozen
Frozen by Meljean Brook is $2.99 on Amazon! This is a paranormal romance that clocks in at a little over 250 pages. Not quite a novella and just shy of a full length, in my opinion. There’s a snowed in/forced proximity element here, if that’s your catnip.
For a year and a half, Olivia Martin has tried to forget Erik Gulbrandr, the glacial man who’d scorched her mouth with a single kiss. But when Olivia finds herself snowbound with Erik on the winter solstice, she discovers that the man who set her body aflame is cursed by abominable needs — and a desire that might destroy them both…
FROZEN is a 52,000-word paranormal romance and includes explicit love scenes.
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Love Miss Wonderful! LC was my gateway to romance and I read this whole series, this is on the quieter side but has Chase’s trademark banter and strong heroine.
only one Kiss by Natasha Madison is free
I know Harlequin Presents aren’t everyone’s cuppa, but if they’re yours, there are a lot of Harlequin Presents on sale today for $2.99 (they’re usually $3.99), including a number from my all-time favorite HP Queen of angsty heartache, Caitlin Crews, such as: CASTELLI’S VIRGIN WIDOW, NOT JUST THE BOSS’S PLAYTHING/DEVIL IN DISGUISE (two books in one), CHOSEN FOR HIS DESERT THRONE, THE GUARDIAN’S VIRGIN WARD, HIS SCANDALOUS CHRISTMAS PRINCESS (which has a blind heroine), and CHRISTMAS IN THE KING’S BED
Among many other HP authors like Dani Collins, Maya Blake, Lynne Graham, etc.
Maybe I missed it, but haven’t seen comment that the Grip Trilogy by Kennedy Ryan is 99 cents right now! I bought it for $10 and it was work every penny. I tell everyone to buy this.
For some reason, most of my purchases are based on suggestions in the comments. Sometimes they even have something to do with the Books on Sale postings. Please keep those comments coming! I assume that MANY of us SBTB-ers (like me) seriously rely on that input.
Thanks, @Jcp. I seem to be enjoying quite a few books with hockey player characters recently.
@D3, I think actually buying HQ by title would take away my thrill of picking up a bag full on the last afternoon of a Friends of the Library sale.
@LML: lol—I agree when we’re talking about HPs NOT written by my quartet of queens of angsty heartache (Crews, Ashenden, Connelly, Yates)—I have a hoard of HPs I got for a buck a bag at various FOL sales—but for “my gals,” I buy the ebooks whenever I can.
Lord Perfect was great fun, and a genuinely page-turning romantic adventure story. It’s really hard to pull of a true comic adventure and romance simultaneously.
Mr Impossible is my favorite Carsington book, followed by Lord Perfect with all its Austen aliases. But I might be biased. Mr Impossible was my first Chase. I like it even better than Lord of Scoundrels, which is on all the all time best lists.
Mr. Impossible, hands down. I love Loretta Chase in general, and that is my very favorite.
@DiscoDollyDeb – which of “your gals’” 🙂 titles would you most highly recommend to an HP newbie? (Ps a mostly-lurker’s sincere thank you for your comments! They’re always some of my favorites.)
@InviolateLight: with the caution that HPs are super-duper angsty with operatic levels of heartache (leavened, of course, by fabulous wealth and exotic locations), where a very occasional, very euphemistic sex scene interrupts the wall-to-wall angstiness, here are my “if I could only take one HP title by this author to a deserted island” choices:
Caitlin Crews: NO MORE SWEET SURRENDER—excellent analysis of toxic masculinity and the price it demands from women.
Jackie Ashenden: THE SPANIARD’S WEDDING REVENGE—very much of the “Ashenden template” (regardless of what company/line is publishing her work), with absent/abusive/dead/distant parents and family dysfunction that is never truly resolved, but turned up to eleven because this is the Harlequin Presents universe.
Clare Connelly: BOUGHT FOR THE BILLIONAIRE’S REVENGE—like Ashenden, Connelly has a template—hers is a little gentler with heroines who are a bit more on the shrinking-violet side, until they have to fight for someone they care about.
Maisey Yates: CARIDES’S FORGOTTEN WIFE—absolutely gutting and unbelievably good story involving amnesia (an HP staple). Any author who can take two of my hardest of hard no’s—cheating spouse and the death of a child—and make the book compulsively readable is doing something extraordinary.
I’m going to add one more book, Kelly Hunter’s THE MAN SHE LOVES TO HATE, about a man who falls for the daughter of the woman who had a long-term adulterous affair with his father. Hunter isn’t in my “pantheon” because she doesn’t publish much through HP these days (although she has a large backlist), but she’s a brilliant writer and I’m always there when she publishes a new book, especially if it’s an HP.
I hope this will give you some idea of what a Harlequin Presents book is like and if you’d enjoy them.
Mr. Impossible is my favorite of the original Carsington books, but I absolutely adore her follow-up novel, Last Night’s Scandal, with characters from Lord Perfect as adults.
Thank you, @DiscoDollyDeb! Much appreciated.