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Luck Is No Lady
Luck Is No Lady by Amy Sandas is $1.99! This is the first book in the Fallen Ladies series and it came out earlier this year. I’m also loving the cover for this one. Many readers mentioned good book noises after finishing this romance, while others felt the romance between the hero and heroine wasn’t very convincing. It has a 3.9-star rating on Goodreads.
“You should not have kissed me,” she replied breathlessly.
“I do a lot of things I shouldn’t. It does not mean I won’t do them again.”Gently bred Emma Chadwick always assumed she’d live and die the daughter of a gentleman. But when her father’s death reveals a world of staggering debt and dangerous moneylenders, she must risk her good name and put her talent for mathematics to use, taking a position as bookkeeper at London’s most notorious gambling hall. Surrounded by vice and corruption on all sides, it is imperative no one discovers Emma’s shameful secret or her reputation-and her life-will be ruined.
But Roderick Bentley, the hall’s sinfully wealthy owner, awakens a hunger Emma cannot deny. Drawn deep into an underworld of high stakes gambling and reckless overindulgence, she soon discovers that in order to win the love of a ruthless scoundrel, she will have to play the game…and give in to the pleasure of falling from grace.
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The Bollywood Bride
RECOMMENDED: The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev is $1.99! Redheadedgirl and Carrie did a joint review of the book and gave it a B+. The TL;DR of their review was that they wished they had the hero’s POV to help address some of his behaviors, but appreciated how the heroine’s trauma was addressed. They also mention lots of content warnings; click through to their review for more on that.
Ria Parkar is Bollywood’s favorite Ice Princess–beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof–until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling home to Chicago for her cousin’s wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting Vikram Jathar.
Ria and Vikram spent childhood summers together, a world away from Ria’s exclusive boarding school in Mumbai. Their friendship grew seamlessly into love–until Ria made a shattering decision. As far as Vikram is concerned, Ria sold her soul for stardom and it’s taken him years to rebuild his life. But beneath his pent-up anger, their bond remains unchanged. And now, among those who know her best, Ria may find the courage to face the secrets she’s been guarding for everyone else’s benefit–and a chance to stop acting and start living.
Rich with details of modern Indian-American life, here is a warm, sexy, and witty story of love, family, and the difficult choices that arise in the name of both.
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Tremaine’s True Love
Tremaine’s True Love by Grace Burrowes is $2.99! A few readers found the romance a bit boring and slow, while others loved the characterization of the heroine and hero. We had two favorable guest reviews during our RITA Reader Challenge several years ago.
Tremaine St. Michael is firmly in trade and seeks only to negotiate the sale of some fancy sheep with the Earl of Bellefonte.
The earl’s sister, Lady Nita, is pragmatic, hard-working, and selfless, though Tremaine senses she’s also tired of her charitable obligations and envious of her siblings’ marital bliss.
Tremaine, having been raised among shepherds, can spot another lonely soul, no matter how easily she fools her own family. Neither Tremaine nor Nita is looking for love, but love comes looking for them.
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Served Hot
Served Hot by Annabeth Albert is 99c! This is book one in the Portland Heat series, which has been favorably mentioned several times on the site. This one was also recommended in our Reverse Hallmark Rec League.
In Portland, Oregon, the only thing hotter than the coffee shops, restaurants, and bakeries are the hard-working men who serve it up—hot, fresh, and ready to go—with no reservations…
Robby is a self-employed barista with a busy coffee cart, a warm smile, and a major crush on one of his customers. David is a handsome finance director who works nearby, eats lunch by himself, and expects nothing but “the usual”—small vanilla latte—from the cute guy in the cart. But when David shows up for his first Portland Pride festival, Robby works up the nerve to take their slow-brewing relationship to the next level. David, however, is newly out and single, still grieving the loss of his longtime lover, and unsure if he’s ready to date again. Yet with every fresh latte, sweet exchange—and near hook-up—David and Robby go from simmering to steaming to piping hot. The question is: Will someone get burned?
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I enjoyed Served Hot. It’s well written and packs a decent emotional punch especially for a novella. It’s not Annabeth Albert’s best work, but it’s good, and a decent way to try her if you haven’t read anything by her yet. I believe her book, Sailor Proof is still on sale as well.
Wow there are a lot of Annabeth Albert books on hoopla! I’ve been meaning to check out Conventionally Yours.
Tremaine’s True Love is one of my favorites! The two are so right for each other but almost blow it with their assumptions about marriage and love. I rarely self-insert into novels but got very caught up with these two.
The publisher took away the beautiful, evocative cover of The Bollywood Bride and left behind a cartoon. Why??
eh … I don’t remember what any earlier cover looked like, but I read it a while ago and enjoyed it … with e-books, I pay less attention to the covers, although occasionally one will appeal
I read the first book (or part of the first book, can’t remember if I finished it) in the Fallen Ladies series and boy was it anachronistic. It was well written but it was modern people and attitudes in an historical setting.
RUN POSY RUN (mafia, sociopathic main character) and HITTING THE WALL (secret baby, crossing class lines) by Cate C. Wells are currently both free at Amazon. Wells is the author of the recently popular The Tyrant Alpha’s Rejected Mate and — while I don’t necessarily find all of her books romantic (POSY makes a better character study than a romance) — she offers a really fresh narrative perspective on familiar tropes.
@Deborah: thanks for the heads up—I’m grabbing HITTING THE WALL right now. I enjoyed RUN POSY RUN (although I thought THE TYRANT ALPHA’S REJECTED MATE was far superior) and agree it might be best to view it through the lens of a woman trying to reclaim the (mafia) life she was born into as opposed to a passionate romance (I thought it was telling that the heroine is not particularly concerned that the hero is selfish in bed). One thing I think Wells does really well is the interpersonal politics inherent in all groups with lots of members (family, packs, etc.).
Ilona Andrews’s Sweep With Me is $.99, at least on Amazon.
I don’t remember Luck Is No Lady very well, beyond it having a very improbable twist at the end that set up the next book.
The Bollywood Bride is good. I second the content warnings.
I had to read the title three times before I could get it to read as Served Up instead of Sewed Up, which I guess would be a romance in a fabric store.
Served Hot, not up. I guess I was so busy trying to figure out the first word I made an assumption on the next one.
Served Hot is cute! It’s a short-ish novel/novella, and there’s more stories in the Portland Heat series – loosely connected, so from those that I have read, I can say they can all read on their own. Robby and David get married in Danced Closed, which is also lovely – and has an MC that’s HIV positive. Not something you read often.