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Sapphire Flames
RECOMMENDED: Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews is $2.99! This may be a leftover deal and could expire soon. Many of us romance readers can’t recommend this series or this author enough. You can pick this one up without read the story arc of the previous three, but why would you want to deprive yourself of Ilona Andrews goodness.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrew comes an enthralling new trilogy set in the Hidden Legacy world, where magic means power, and family bloodlines are the new currency of society…
In a world where magic is the key to power and wealth, Catalina Baylor is a Prime, the highest rank of magic user, and the Head of her House. Catalina has always been afraid to use her unique powers, but when her friend’s mother and sister are murdered, Catalina risks her reputation and safety to unravel the mystery.
But behind the scenes powerful forces are at work, and one of them is Alessandro Sagredo, the Italian Prime who was once Catalina’s teenage crush. Dangerous and unpredictable, Alessandro’s true motives are unclear, but he’s drawn to Catalina like a moth to a flame.
To help her friend, Catalina must test the limits of her extraordinary powers, but doing so may cost her both her House–and her heart.
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The Countess Conspiracy
The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan is 99c! This is a historical romance and the third book in the Brothers Sinister series. Carrie gave it a B-:
I wanted a book about women and science and I got that, but it was all mixed in with a completely different book about emotional trauma and recovering from sexual and emotional abuse. They were both good books but I think I would have preferred to read them separately, not mixed together into one rather crowded story.
Sebastian Malheur is the most dangerous sort of rake: an educated one. When he’s not scandalizing ladies in the bedchamber, he’s outraging proper society with his scientific theories. He’s desired, reviled, acclaimed, and despised—and he laughs through it all.
Violet Waterfield, the widowed Countess of Cambury, on the other hand, is entirely respectable, and she’d like to stay that way. But Violet has a secret that is beyond ruinous, one that ties her irrevocably to England’s most infamous scoundrel: Sebastian’s theories aren’t his. They’re hers.
So when Sebastian threatens to dissolve their years-long conspiracy, she’ll do anything to save their partnership…even if it means opening her vulnerable heart to the rake who could destroy it for good.
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My Darling Duke
My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid is 99c! This is the first book in the Sinful Wallflowers series. Shana wrote a Lightning Review for this one and gave it C-. If you’ve read this one, how did you like it (or not)?
Miss Katherine Danvers has always been a wallflower. But now, with her family on the brink of financial ruin, she finds herself a desperate wallflower. To save her family, she’ll do anything. Luckily, she has the perfect plan…
She’ll impress the ton by simply announcing she is engaged to the reclusive and mysterious Duke of Thornton, Alexander Masters, and secure strong matches for her sisters. No one has heard from the duke in years. Surely he’ll never find out before her sisters’ weddings, and she can go back to her own quiet life.
Soon, though, everything is out of control. At first, it’s just a few new ball gowns on the duke’s accounts. Then, it’s interviews with reporters eager for gossip. Before she knows it, Katherine has transformed herself into Kitty Danvers, charming and clever belle of the ton—with everyone eager to meet her thankfully absent fiancé.
But when the enigmatic Alexander Masters suddenly arrives in the city, dashing and oh so angry, he demands retribution. Except not in the way Katherine expected…
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The Widows of Malabar Hill
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey is $1.99! This is a mystery set in 1920s Bombay. Carrie read this one and gave it a B:
It’s not a romance. Romance does not go well for the main characters. However, it’s a very good female-centered historical mystery.
1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings us an atmospheric new historical mystery with a captivating heroine.
Inspired in part by the woman who made history as India’s first female attorney, The Widows of Malabar Hill is a richly wrought story of multicultural 1920s Bombay as well as the debut of a sharp and promising new sleuth.Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father’s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women’s legal rights especially important to her.
Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. But as Perveen examines the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. What will they live on? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X—meaning she probably couldn’t even read the document. The Farid widows live in full purdah—in strict seclusion, never leaving the women’s quarters or speaking to any men. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts were correct when tensions escalate to murder. Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are
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Sapphire Flames is probably on sale because the last book in the series is out in August and pre-orders are up. They just announced the ARC availability on their website yesterday.
If, like me, you are seeing that Lauren Dane ad above the comments field, I recommend these books entirely for a smexy good space opera. Not on sale I imagine, but I purchased them in soft cover because I liked them that much.
Also, yay! COUNTESS CONSPIRACY is the only Brothers Sinister missing from my Kindle.
I have read The Countess Conspiracy multiple times and can’t find a fault with it. There’s a lot going on with the heroine, and the hero is always there to support her while she comes to terms with things. Courtney Milan writes what are unfortunately called “beta heroes” really well and Sebastian is my favorite.
Trying me out some Cate C Wells, as The Tyrant Alpha’s Rejected Mate is free on Amazon at the moment
I liked the Countess Conspiracy best among the Brothers Sinister stories. My favorite part is watching Violet making both scientific and personal discoveries at almost the same time.
I liked The Countess Conspiracy and My Darling Duke better than both of the reviewers at the links. With the Countess Conspiracy, that is probably because Secretly Pining Heroes are my major catnip, and secretly pining rakes that have to make the objects of their affection take them seriously? Yes please.
With My Darling Duke I see the “magical healing cooch” criticism, but I don’t mind it as much as Shana did. This is definitely “YMMV” territory depending on your personal tolerance of the “love as healing force” trope. Personally, it’s not a trope I hate (it’s one of those fantasy tropes where I see what it’s doing and kind of roll my eyes, but also it still works on me?), and this books did the trope very well with a minimum of eye rolling. Also, I never get tired of Beauty and the Beast retellings, so it had that catnip for me.
I would add that although there is indeed no romance in The Widows of Malabar Hill, there is one juuuust beginning to blossom a few books in. (Fingers crossed!!) This is one of my favorite series and I eagerly await each new book. Perveen is just amazing.
I really liked all of these (except the Reid which I haven’t read). The Widows of Malabar Hill is 1000 percent a slow burn lesbian romance and no one and nothing will deter me from this stance. I am putting off reading the sequels in case the author has a different direction planned since by slow I mean glacial and by burn I might mean feverish delusion. Eventually I will be sufficiently distracted that I will forget how invested I am in this but for now it is extremely.
@DonnaMarie: The first in the series is lower price, at least in Germany. This might be their permanent pricing, though. And yes, I clicked and then bought…
The Countess Conspiracy is my favourite romance novel. It’s one of exactly two romances that felt like it was written for me.
I’ve enjoyed all the books in the Perveen Mistry series.
I wanted to like My Darling Duke but couldn’t…I’d agree with Shana’s C-.