An Inconvenient Duke

An Inconvenient Duke by Anna Harrington is $1.99! This is book one in the Lords of the Armory series. This historical romance features the “off-limits sibling of a friend” trope. If that’s your particular catnip, maybe pick this one up.
Marcus Braddock, Duke of Hampton and former general, is back from war and faced with mourning the death of his beloved sister, Elise. Marcus believes his sister’s death wasn’t an accident and he’s determined to learn the truth, starting with Danielle, the beautiful daughter of a baron and his sister’s best friend.
Danielle is keeping deadly secrets of her own. She has dedicated her life to a charity that helps abused women―the same charity Elise was working for the night she died. When Danielle’s work puts her life in danger, Marcus comes to her rescue. But Danielle may not need rescuing…
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Slightly Married by Mary Balogh is $2.99! This is the first book in the Bedwyn Saga, which is a favorite amongst romance readers. It also has a cover updated, which is…fine? I kind of miss the red and gold.
Meet the Bedwyns…six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality…Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction…where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal…and where Aidan Bedwyn, the marriage-shy second son, discovers that matrimony may be the most seductive act of all.…
Like all the Bedwyn men, Aidan has a reputation for cool arrogance. But this proud nobleman also possesses a loyal, passionate heart—and it is this fierce loyalty that has brought Colonel Lord Aidan to Ringwood Manor to honor a dying soldier’s request. Having promised to comfort and protect the man’s sister, Aidan never expected to find a headstrong, fiercely independent woman who wants no part of his protection…nor did he expect the feelings this beguiling creature would ignite in his guarded heart. And when a relative threatens to turn Eve out of her home, Aidan gallantly makes her an offer she can’t refuse: marry him…if only to save her home. And now, as all of London breathlessly awaits the transformation of the new Lady Aidan Bedwyn, the strangest thing happens: With one touch, one searing embrace, Aidan and Eve’s “business arrangement” is about to be transformed…into something slightly surprising.
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Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose is $1.99! This is the first book in the historical mystery Wrexford & Sloane series, which I think Ellen enjoys.
In Regency London, an unconventional scientist and a fearless female artist form an unlikely alliance to expose unspeakable evil . . .
The Earl of Wrexford possesses a brilliant scientific mind, but boredom and pride lead him to reckless behavior. So when pompous, pious Reverend Josiah Holworthy publicly condemns him for debauchery, Wrexford unsheathes his rapier-sharp wit and strikes back. As their war of words escalates, London’s most popular satirical cartoonist, A.J. Quill, skewers them both. But then the clergyman is found slain in a church—his face burned by chemicals, his throat slashed ear to ear—and Wrexford finds himself the chief suspect.
An artist in her own right, Charlotte Sloane has secretly slipped into the persona of her late husband, using his nom de plume A.J. Quill. When Wrexford discovers her true identity, she fears it will be her undoing. But he has a proposal—use her sources to unveil the clergyman’s clandestine involvement in questionable scientific practices, and unmask the real murderer. Soon Lord Wrexford and the mysterious Mrs. Sloane plunge into a dangerous shadow world hidden among London’s intellectual enclaves to trap a cunning adversary—before they fall victim to the next experiment in villainy . . .
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RECOMMENDED: Murder on the Last Frontier by Cathy Pegau is $1.99! Carrie reviewed this book earlier this year and gave it a B+:
This is, of course, an ongoing series, so the romance and other personal issues are not wrapped up in each individual book. However, each book ends with a solved mystery. Despite all the mayhem, I’m finding the books to be quite comforting. Now if I could just get some good Phryne Fisher/Charlotte Brody fanfic going!
There’s many who feel the Alaska Territory is no place for a woman on her own. But Charlotte Brody, suffragette and journalist, has never let public opinion dictate her life choices. She’s come to the frontier town of Cordova, where her brother Michael practices medicine, for the same reason many come to Alaska—to start over.
Cordova is gradually getting civilized, but the town is still rougher than Charlotte imagined. And when a local prostitute—one of the working girls her brother has been treating—is found brutally murdered, Charlotte learns firsthand how rough the frontier can be. Although the town may not consider the murder of a prostitute worthy of investigation, Charlotte’s feminist beliefs motivate her to seek justice for the woman. And there’s something else—the woman was hiding a secret, one that reminds Charlotte of her own painful past.
As Charlotte searches for answers, she soon finds her own life in danger from a cold-blooded killer desperate to keep dark secrets from seeing the light of day…
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I think I’m in the minority in not liking the Bedwyn series very much, but this first book was an exception. There’s an earlyish scene where the heroine bravely tells the hero that she’s not a virgin, and he says that that’s fine, neither is he, and it is just…everything. Of all the romances I’ve ever read, this scene is the one that has stuck with me most in a positive way, which is particularly noteworthy given that I read it during a period of my life when I was so chronically sleep deprived that I remember very little detail about most of the books I read. I’d never read a scene of that kind with this response* before, and tbh I haven’t read many others since. Her honesty and bravery! His ability to think beyond his time and conditioning!
* I refuse to count scenes where the hero responds “oh thank God, I can shag you really hard then” as part of the same category.
A big thumbs up for Murder on Black Swan Lane from me! I like the characters, and since the hero is a scientist the author researches emerging technology from that era. One caveat: the romance aspect is slow burn, so it won’t get resolved until in later books in the series.
I’m with @LouisefromBreese. All the love for Wrexford and Sloane! Plus Charlotte has a Baker Street Irregulars style troop of street urchins at her disposal through the two boys she has taken in. On of my go to series for my historical mystery with romance elements addiction.
I do like all the Bedwyn series but Slightly Married is probably my favorite of them. Aidan is my favorite of the siblings (probably because he’s the least melodramatic of them, lol) and Eve is a great heroine. She’s warm and caring, but not naive. She’s in a tough situation that forces her to marry out of desperation, but she stands up for herself as much as she can and doesn’t let the aristocratic Bedwyns, including the icy duke, intimidate her or push her into a life she doesn’t want. I like the scene @Star mentioned and there’s a great bit involving her presentation at court that’s very satisfying. This one is a very good starting place if you’re new to Mary Balogh.
(The new cover is meh, fine except that at least in my Kindle app, they ONLY redid this one? The rest have the old scripty covers so they don’t MATCH, argh. They also ONLY redid the first Westcott series cover – with models who do not even slightly resemble the main characters as described in the book – which is much worse and the original covers in that series were lovely. Don’t even get me started on the Survivors’ Club series, which changed cover styles AND title format halfway through!)
Another fan of Slightly Married here, it’s my favorite of the Bedwyn series. I have the beautiful original pb with the embossed script on the cover. Also, it’s got one of Balogh’s trademark outdoor sex scenes. As you do after a naked swim in a pond.
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So happy to see book one of the Penrose series here…it’s terrific! I have read all of her books and eagerly look forward to more.
I am not a mystery reader, and I devoured them.