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The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting
The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles is 99c! Thanks to everyone who let us know about this sale. Take note that it has a new cover and a new ISBN, so double check if you have this already. This book was almost recommend in two Rec Leagues: Papa Bears and No Bleak Moment.
Robin Loxleigh and his sister Marianne are the hit of the Season, so attractive and delightful that nobody looks behind their pretty faces.
Until Robin sets his sights on Sir John Hartlebury’s heiress niece. The notoriously graceless baronet isn’t impressed by good looks, or fooled by false charm. He’s sure Robin is a liar—a fortune hunter, a card sharp, and a heartless, greedy fraud—and he’ll protect his niece, whatever it takes.
Then, just when Hart thinks he has Robin at his mercy, things take a sharp left turn. And as the grumpy baronet and the glib fortune hunter start to understand each other, they also find themselves starting to care—more than either of them thought possible.
But Robin’s cheated and lied and let people down for money. Can a professional rogue earn an honest happy ever after?
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The Luckiest Lady in London
The Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas is $1.99! This is book one in The London Trilogy series. I’d love to hear thoughts from the Bitchery about this series or Thomas’s earlier historical romances
From the superbly gifted Sherry Thomas comes this beautifully written romance about a marriage of convenience that turns inconveniently passionate…
Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Even Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by public adulation.
Louisa Cantwell needs to marry well to support her sisters. She does not, however, want Lord Wrenworth–though he seems inexplicably interested in her. She mistrusts his outward perfection, and the praise he garners everywhere he goes. Still, when he is the only man to propose at the end of the London season, she reluctantly accepts.
Louisa does not understand her husband’s mysterious purposes, but she cannot deny the pleasure her body takes in his touch. Nor can she deny the pull this magnetic man exerts upon her. But does she dare to fall in love with a man so full of dark secrets, any one of which could devastate her, if she were to get any closer?
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Off the Clock
RECOMMENDED: Off the Clock by Roni Loren is $2.99! I read this one and gave it a B+. Content warnings here for childhood trauma and suicide, which are the major ones I remember. Here’s what I thought:
When I first heard about Off the Clock, I was pretty excited. I’m all for erotic romances with smart people and it’s nice to see non-billionaires. So I went into the book amped for some nerdy people getting down and dirty, but was pleasantly surprised that it was so much more than that – it was emotional and showed an interesting portrayal of individuals dealing with all manner of trauma and mental illness.
Overtime has never felt so good…
Marin Rush loves studying sex. Doing it? That’s another story. In the research lab, Marin’s lack of practical knowledge didn’t matter, but now that she’s landed a job at The Grove, a high-end, experimental sex therapy institute, she can’t ignore the fact that the person most in need of sexual healing may be her.
Dr. Donovan West, her new hotshot colleague, couldn’t agree more. Donovan knows that Marin’s clients are going to eat her alive unless she gets some hands-on experience. And if she fails at the job, he can say goodbye to a promotion, so he assigns her a list of R-rated tasks to prepare her for the wild clientele of The Grove’s X-wing.
But some of those tasks are built for two, and when he finds Marin searching for a candidate to help her check off her list, Donovan decides there’s only one man for the job—him. As long as they keep their erotic, off-the-clock activities strictly confidential and without strings, no one will get fired—or worse, get attached…
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The Road Trip
The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance where a woman inadvertently goes on a road trip with her ex to a mutual friend’s wedding. For the most part, O’Leary’s books are well reviewed or at least spark some conversation.
Two exes reach a new level of awkward when forced to take a road trip together in this endearing and humorous novel by the author of the international bestseller The Flatshare.
What if the end of the road is just the beginning?
Four years ago, Dylan and Addie fell in love under the Provence sun. Wealthy Oxford student Dylan was staying at his friend Cherry’s enormous French villa; wild child Addie was spending her summer as the on-site caretaker. Two years ago, their relationship officially ended. They haven’t spoken since.
Today, Dylan’s and Addie’s lives collide again. It’s the day before Cherry’s wedding, and Addie and Dylan crash cars at the start of the journey there. The car Dylan was driving is wrecked, and the wedding is in rural Scotland–he’ll never get there on time by public transport.
So, along with Dylan’s best friend, Addie’s sister, and a random guy on Facebook who needed a ride, they squeeze into a space-challenged Mini and set off across Britain. Cramped into the same space, Dylan and Addie are forced to confront the choices they made that tore them apart–and ask themselves whether that final decision was the right one after all.
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I LOVE Beth O’Leary — she is an auto-buy for me — but The Road Trip did not quite measure up to her other books for me. So if you read it and think “that had potential but didn’t quite land,” try another!
I loved both of the Roni Loren Pleasure Principle books. My only complaint is that there’s not a third!
THE ROAD TRIP: Nice to see a short-haired heroine on a cover!
I really loved the KJ Charles. Here’s my 5 star GR Review
What fun! Charming mm Recency romance between a fortune hunter and the uncle of his targeted heiress.
KJ Charles really excels at flipping and questioning genre conventions and at making unsympathetic characters remarkably sympathetic. Here she takes one of the stock bad guys of the Regency romance – the fortune hunter – and creates a believable, sympathetic hero.
This is pretty fluffy by KJC standards. No dead bodies. No gruesome murders. It’s not completely fluffy though. None of the main characters have had easy lives and there’s an awareness of the grim realities of the class system. It’s less fluffy than The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh and maybe on par with Band Sinister and Wanted, a Gentleman.
It is also a lot of fun. I don’t want to say too much about the plot but I will say that I enjoyed all of the twists and turns.
I agree, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting is great – for all the reasons already stated.
I am currently reading The Luckiest Lady in London, though in French (street library find). It’s big on the insta-lust and the hero has daddy/mommy issues, which is why he tells himself he can never fall in love. I’m only about 90 pages in, nothing big has happened so far. There’s one admittedly small thing though that weirded me out. The heroine has her sight set on a couple of gentlemen, and the hero somehow knows all that these guys have going on and why they will not marry her. Which he tells her so that she is persuaded that nobody will marry her and she will become his mistress. Which all in itself is bad enough. But, as it turns out, the reason one gentleman will not marry is that he has an affair with his half sister. That’s just… I don’t know… could the author not have found another reason that’s less weird? icky?
Five adults plus luggage in a classic Mini, with two of them working through relationship and trust issues? That sounds like hell for the other three people in the car. Please tell me it doesn’t last all the way to Scotland.
LOVE The Luckiest Lady in London— probably my favorite Sherry Thomas (and I love many of her books)! I miss her historical romances. Enjoyed her fantasies and forays into wuxia as well, but I’m not much of a mystery reader, so I haven’t really followed her more recent releases.
The Luckiest Lady in London is my favourite Sherry Thomas, if we are ranking them by re-reads. The KJC is also one of my comfort reads.
I already own the KJ Charles book. But I don’t want to have to buy it again to get a new epilogue. I looked to see if it has an update but alas, no. In fact when I click on the book file it reads PAGE NOT FOUND. I don’t want to buy multiples of the same book. Just me?
Yes, the KJ Charles book is the same apart from the epilogue. I didn’t buy it again for that reason, until it went to 99p. I bought it at that price