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Can’t Help Faking in Love
Can’t Help Faking in Love by Swati Hegde is $1.99! I love the color palette of this cover. As the title implies, this has a fake dating plot.
A young woman with Bollywood roots hires a barista to act as her boyfriend for her cousin’s wedding—only to learn you can’t fake chemistry like theirs—in this desi romance from the author of Match Me If You Can
Harsha Godbole has never felt love from her family, but she’s always been surrounded by their Bollywood business mogul wealth. Now back in Bangalore after studying in America, Harsha is ready to start her adult life without their money. But that becomes impossible when everything she’s worked so hard for comes crumbling down. Fearful of showing up to her cousin’s upcoming wedding as a failure—and worse, a single failure—Harsha decides to put her trust fund to good use . . .
Veer Kannan does everything for his family. He even gave up his dreams of becoming a Bollywood star to get a more consistent gig . . . although working as a barista wasn’t really the big break he was hoping for. It’s a humble life, but a happy one, nonetheless. Then financial aid falls through for his brother’s first year in business school, so now Veer needs to come up with a large sum of money, and fast.
Harsha’s outlandish plan to hire her favorite barista as her fake boyfriend for the weekend-long wedding bash is received surprisingly well by Veer, who hopes this will be his ticket to Bollywood. But Harsha and Veer get way more than they bargained for in this heartwarming journey to finding unexpected love and courage.
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Reckless in Texas
Reckless in Texas by Kari Lynn Dell is $1.99! This is book one in the Texas Rodeo series. We’ve heard general recommendations about this series. Have you read any?
Rough and tumble, cocky and charming,
Joe’s everything a rodeo superstar should be…
And he’s way out of Violet’s league.Violet Jacobs is fearless. At least, that’s what the cowboys she snatches from under the hooves of bucking horses think. Outside the ring, she’s got plenty of worries rattling her bones: her young son, her mess of a love life, and lately, her family’s struggling rodeo. When she takes business into her own hands and hires on a hotshot bullfighter, she expects to start a ruckus.
She never expected Joe Cassidy.
Joe came to Texas to escape a life spiraling out of control. He never planned on sticking around, and he certainly never expected to call this dry and dusty backwater home. But Violet is everything he never knew he was missing, and the deeper he’s pulled into her beautiful mess of a family, the more he realizes this fierce rodeo girl may be offering him the one thing he never could find on his own.
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Nine Month Contract
Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws is $2.99! This is a grumpy/sunshine romance with a hero wanting to be a dad. I haven’t read this one, but I feel like not involving a surrogacy agency can lead to a lot of trouble. How much disbelief needs suspending here?
Help Wanted: Grumpy mountain man seeks baby momma. Job is an incubator position only. Surrogate must be impervious to grunting as the form of communication and nosy brotherly neighbors. Rustic mountain range housing available upon request.
I wanted to pummel my irritating brothers when they posted their own version of a wanted ad to help me with my life.
But I can’t fault the results once the right woman lands in my lap.
Becoming a single father is not a decision I made lightly. In fact, it’s the biggest decision of my entire life.
Which is why when I interview Trista, I know she’s perfect.
She’s wild, she’s opinionated, she wears cowboy boots. Even my pet goat loves her…
She’s the exact type of person I was holding out for.
And to my great horror, I realize on our first night of attempting this baby-making dance—when the lights are low, the cheap wine is flowing and the home-insemination supplies are laid out on the kitchen counter—I want to do a lot more than just make her my surrogate.
I want to make her mine.
Perfect for fans of:
Grumpy/Sunshine
Small Town Romance
Age Gap
Curvy FMC
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Mad Duke March
Mad Duke March by Sadie Bosque is $1.99 on Amazon! This is marked as a “limited time deal.” I hope it lasts for at least the day. I’m so curious about this anthology series, where different authors write a historical romance and are titled with a specific month.
Whisky. Plenty of it. Keep it coming…
That’s all that Alexander Blackwood, the notorious “Mad Duke” of London, desires. Determined to waste his life away, he manages to offend even his closest friends. But when he carelessly ruins Miss Emily Fitzwilliam while in a drunken stupor, he finds himself chained to the only woman in England who refuses to fear or fawn over him.
It was the best day of her life… Until it wasn’t.
Emily Fitzwilliam loses everything when she is scandalously ruined by the most notorious rake London has ever known. And worst of all, the bounder refuses to marry her! But the wicked Duke who destroyed her life is about to discover that payback is hell.
A hasty marriage neither party wanted is about to become a passionate battle of wills as two warring hearts are destined to become one flesh… whether they like it or not.
Mad Duke March is book 3 in the multi-author series The Rake Review. If you enjoy watching some of London’s most notorious scoundrels getting raked over the coals, then be sure to collect all twelve bachelors in The Rake Review!
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This is probably random. I am here to rant about something I say a lot which is that physiologic response is not consent. As I am reading my xteenth romance in which he grabs and kisses her, her heart rate speeds up, he says, see you do want me.
How it should go:
In the billionaire’s office.
He grabs, kisses, says, see you want me.
She pushes him away, says physiologic response is not consent.
He scoffs.
She begins massaging the front of his trousers with certain effect while pushing intercom button with the other hand and telling his secretary to send his 10 am appointment in.
He is horrified, tries to push her away.
She says, but you are hard, that means you want this. Laughs, leaves. Says hi to his 10 o’clock on her way out. As he hurriedly sits behind his desk.
If anyone knows of books containing this or similar, let me know.
@Vicki
The CEO Can Drop Dead: A That’s Not Romance Book by Moira J. Moore deconstructs a lot of that kind of trope.
Has MAD DUKE MARCH ever been on cover snark? Because I have so many questions about this cover. Why is his shirt completely open? Is this how he generally strides around his estate? And what is going on with his expression? Is he thinking deeply about how stupid he looks with his shirt flapping around like that?
I’ve enjoyed the Kari Lynn Dell books I’ve read. They contain lots of technical detail about ranch & rodeo life, especially caring for horses. Her characters are presented realistically—no one is perfect, but no one is loathsome either. I would not classify her books as fast reads, you need to give yourself time to sink into them. Detailed reads, but worthwhile.
@book_reader_ea01sj71r4: The “Mad Duke March” cover appears to be an AI (or otherwise manipulated) version of the cover for “Night Falls Darkly” by Kim Lenox published in 2008. If not, it’s at least from the same photo shoot (I actually captured several versions of the artwork way back when). I have a note that the original cover was done by Gene Mollica.
And I, for one, enjoy this type of cover (men with muscles on display without tattoos, and long hair are my favorite looks) and I really miss them these days (I really dislike the current trend of cartoon covers–cartoons are for kids!). I also live in a warm climate and leaving your shirt open is useful for catching a cooling breeze.
I really love Kari Lynn Dell’s books. Like @DDD mentioned, there is tons of great background info, and I especially appreciated how competent most of the women in her books are. I was very sad when I learned of her passing.
Nine Month Contract requires a fair amount of suspension of disbelief, can confirm. I gave it 3.5 stars when I read it, cause it was eventually enjoyable but there were some narrative choices that felt clunky. Also you have to really like the grumpy mountain man character. Cute animals though!
Everyone has their line in the romance sand. For some it’s billionaires, for some it’s LEOs or military. For me it is the ubiquitous dukes – young hot dukes with apparently no apparent duties, lands, tenants, staff, obligations, …. just personal issues that only the heroine can solve.
What really makes me shake my head is the naming – Duke of what? Random place name? Vaguely aristo-sounding family name? Are they royal dukes or landed dukes? The one above is the Duke of London. How does that even work?
I will happliy read romances with earls, viscounts, even a lowly baronet. But I like some attempt at historical accuracy/consistency/atmosphere, and Duke of RandomNameGenerator gives me the head-up that this one is not for me.