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The Rakess
RECOMMENDED: The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham is $1.99! Carrie read this one and have it an A-:
The combination of personal catnip with descriptive language and complex characterization is spot on. I recommend this for fans of vocal feminism, found family, angst, and explicit sex in their historicals. I plan to read my copy many, many times!
Meet the SOCIETY OF SIRENS—three radical, libertine ladies determined to weaponize their scandalous reputations to fight for justice and the love they deserve…
She’s a Rakess on a quest for women’s rights…
Seraphina Arden’s passions include equality, amorous affairs, and wild, wine-soaked nights. To raise funds for her cause, she’s set to publish explosive memoirs exposing the powerful man who ruined her. Her ideals are her purpose, her friends are her family, and her paramours are forbidden to linger in the morning.
He’s not looking for a summer lover…
Adam Anderson is a wholesome, handsome, widowed Scottish architect, with two young children, a business to protect, and an aversion to scandal. He could never, ever afford to fall for Seraphina. But her indecent proposal—one month, no strings, no future—proves too tempting for a man who strains to keep his passions buried with the losses of his past.
But one night changes everything…
What began as a fling soon forces them to confront painful secrets—and yearnings they thought they’d never have again. But when Seraphina discovers Adam’s future depends on the man she’s about to destroy, she must decide what to protect…her desire for justice, or her heart.
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Earls Trip by Jenny Holiday is $1.99! This is a standalone historical romance and was described as Ted Lasso meets Bridgerton for a 19th century spin on The Hangover. Have any of you read this one?
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All the Duke I Need
All the Duke I Need by Caroline Linden is $1.99! This is book three in the Desperately Seeking Duke series. I’m getting a whiff of class differences here, but it’s possible the hero is hiding a secret background that puts him on par with the heroine in terms of social standing.
The third book in the clever, sexy Desperately Seeking Duke series from USA Today bestselling and RITA Award–winning author Caroline Linden.
Raised in the splendor of Carlyle Castle by her doting guardian, the Duchess of Carlyle, Philippa Kirkpatrick is one of the greatest heiresses in England. The duchess is eager to see her wed, but Philippa hesitates to leave the only home she knows.
William Montclair is in London to expand his family’s trading firm, with little progress. Impulsively he takes a job managing the Carlyle estate—for the money, he tells his incredulous brother, and only for a year.
Philippa is shocked by the handsome, scandalously bold new steward. It’s all she can do to prevent the horrified duchess from sacking him on sight. She determines to teach him how to love Carlyle as she does, only to find herself reluctantly charmed by the rogue.
It’s true; Will is falling for everything about Carlyle…including the duchess’s beautiful ward. But he has promises—and secrets—to keep, and telling Philippa would resurrect a devastating family scandal. Not telling her, though, means he must break her heart—and his own.
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The Clan MacRieve
The Clan MacRieve by Kresley Cole is $3.99! This is available elsewhere, but not at the sale price. All the heroes are shifters from the same clan and this collection contains Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night, which is my third favorite book in the Immortals After Dark series. It was my number one for awhile!
Three dark heroes, three destined heroines, a trio of legendary love stories.
In this sizzling Immortals After Dark collection, bestselling author Kresley Cole delves deep into the sensual but dangerous world of the Lykae, a Highland clan of werewolves.
The mighty king: In A Hunger Like No Other, Lachlain MacRieve will stop at nothing to capture his ethereal vampire mate and make her his queen. As passion burns between them, can the tormented beast win the gentle beauty’s heart?
The ruthless warrior: In Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night, Bowen MacRieve must protect his former enemy, a vulnerable young witch whose breathless kiss haunts him. He’ll demand her body and soul, and no deed is too wicked for her seduction.
The fierce prince: In Pleasure of a Dark Prince, Garreth MacRieve aches to claim the Valkyrie archer he’s long coveted from afar. But when his need for her reaches a feverpitch, will the proud huntress dare surrender to his uncontrollable desires?
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Hannah Bonam-Young’s Next of Kin is currently $1.99.
It’s about two people who are teamed up for housing so they can provide for their siblings (“a foster guardian romance”). I loved it and have read twice.
@Neile – thank you! I hadn’t heard about this one at all, but what an interesting premise.
I wish there were more romances with premises that are sort of…realistically unusual for normal people? I guess? No celebrities or wealthy people or weird conditions on inheritance, just the sort of situations that are unlikely to happen to us statistically but nevertheless seem like things that could happen rather than accidentally meeting a multimillionaire in a bar (although that literally did happen to someone I knew, and they’re now married with four kids!).
There absolutely are plenty of romances like this, and they’re often really good, but they’re so hard to find deliberately because they’re usually either less tropey or just tropey enough that the tropes overwhelm the blurb and they sneak past.
@Star, Hannah Boney Young has two more romances out currently, and they’re all to do with regular people. I’ve loved all three.
I enjoy celebrity romances just fine, but I do really enjoy stories about regular people with real-world-type problems, and treasure them because as you say they’re harder to find.
A skim of my reading list suggests Penny Reid (mostly regular people though a couple of rich ones), Cathy Yardley, Tarah DeWitt, Susannah Nix, Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, Cara Bastone (her Just a Heartbeat Away is currently $1.99), B.K. Borison, Kate Canterbary, L.H. Conway, Talia Hibbert, Helen Hoang, Ruthie Knox, Christina Lauren, Angela M. Lopez, Beth O’Leary, Elsie Silver, Mariana Zapata, Katherine Center, Carly Fortune, Roxie Noir, Tia Williams, Kate Claiborne, Trish Dollar, Karen Grey, Livy Hart, Karina Halle, Ali Hazelwood (except her characters are STEM stars), Mia Hopkins, Julie Kriss, Chloe Liese, Roni Loren, Sarah Mayberry, Mhairi McFarlane, Lucy Score, Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Kylie Scott, Josie Silver, Kelly Siskind, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Denise Williams (though has some rich tech characters most are regular people), Sarah Adler, Sarina Bowen (her non-sport books).
More than I’d thought!
Hannah Bonam-Young, thank you autocorrect!
I really enjoyed Earl’s Trip.
Well, Neile, you covered so many of my auto-buys that I just had to whisper out to a kindred spirit. And now I am adding some that I haven’t tried from your list to mine. My brain is Friday-fried so I’m having a hard time sharing back. But I went on a Katherine Center glom in June who also fits the bill and sticks in recent memory.
HAT, thanks for your whisper! I love that someone shares many of my favourites! I do have others that tend to have sport stars/celebrities/rich characters (Sarina Bowen, Becka Mack, Liz Tomforde, etc.) but those are most of the ones that I’ve rated A or B+/A in my recent (somewhat sporadic because right now I only list audiobooks) reading lists.
Sometime when you have the time & energy I’d love to see any suggestions you might have for me!
@Star, did you know Mary Donaldson in Australia?
$.99:
– Finding Bailey: A Lake Tahoe Romantic Suspense Novel by Dana Mason
– Hot, Hard, and Impossible Cowboys by Megan Crane, Amy Andrews, Sarah Mayberry, Paula Altenburg, Jeannie Watt, Leah Vale
– Shut Out (Scotia Storm) by Cathryn Fox
– Home Base by Abbie Zander
– Ride Baby Ride by Vivian Arend
– Boosted Hearts (The Complete Series) by Sherilee Gray
$1.99:
– Dreadful Company (Dr Greta Helsing 2) by Vivian Shaw
– The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck by Kylie Scott
Free:
– The Player and the Pixie
– The Fake Boyfriend Debacle by Hayden Hall
$.99:
– Sweet As Pie by Beth Bolden
Loretta Chase’s A Duke in Shining Armor is currently $1.99.
– Salt by Fearne Hill is $.99
A commenter mentioned on an earlier What Are You Reading? post that Fearne Hill was an autobuy author for them. Seeing as many of her books were on KU, I borrowed one…and promptly read EIGHT of her books last month. Highly recommend her books.
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake is $2.99 at Amazon.
The first book in Batya Gur’s Michael Ohayon series is on sale at Amazon US for $1.99. The books were written in the 90s, but I remember they were well thought of and we don’t often see crime novels set in Israel.
https://tinyurl.com/Batya-Gur-Amazon
From PW: “With sly, affectionate humor and acute insight, this flawless mystery by an Israeli literature professor traces the parallel processes of police detection and psychoanalysis. Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon is called to the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Institute on a quiet Sabbath morning when Dr. Eva Neidorf, a highly respected senior analyst, is found dead of a gunshot shortly before she was to have given a lecture on ethical and forensic problems in psychoanalysis. As the intelligent, somewhat sorrowful Ohayon interviews the institute staff, its training analysts and candidates, Gur deftly and subtly inserts red herrings in her plot, at the same time investing her characters with remarkable depth and individuality. Ohayon’s instinctive perceptiveness surfaces as Institute head Dr. Ernst Hildesheimer explains the grief and horror the murder has awakened in the analytic community–patients as well as practitioners. Following his investigation through Jerusalem’s commercial district and into the ranks of the military as well, Ohayon exhibits the patience and attention to detail unclear what this is of an experienced analyst. A complex, fully satisfying resolution wraps up this masterful American debut.”
Olympic swimming theme ahoy: last week, @flchen1 noted that the two books in Layla Reyne’s Changing Lanes series (RELAY & MEDLEY, m/m Olympic swimmers) were 99-cents each. They are still 99-cents, and an associated novella, FREESTYLE, is currently free.