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The Ruin of a Rake
GUEST RECOMMENDED: The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian is $1.99! We had a guest review of this one from Heather Morris and they gave it an A-:
That quibble aside, there are so many things little things that I loved. Platonic male-female friendship. Sharpshooting and fake duels. Seduction-by-bookkeeping. A frankly excessive amount of kittens.
Rogue. Libertine. Rake. Lord Courtenay has been called many things and has never much cared. But after the publication of a salacious novel supposedly based on his exploits, he finds himself shunned from society. Unable to see his nephew, he is willing to do anything to improve his reputation, even if that means spending time with the most proper man in London.
Julian Medlock has spent years becoming the epitome of correct behavior. As far as he cares, if Courtenay finds himself in hot water, it’s his own fault for behaving so badly—and being so blasted irresistible. But when Julian’s sister asks him to rehabilitate Courtenay’s image, Julian is forced to spend time with the man he loathes—and lusts after—most.
As Courtenay begins to yearn for a love he fears he doesn’t deserve, Julian starts to understand how desire can drive a man to abandon all sense of propriety. But he has secrets he’s determined to keep, because if the truth came out, it would ruin everyone he loves. Together, they must decide what they’re willing to risk for love.
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There’s Something About Mira
There’s Something About Mira by Sonali Dev is $1.99 on Amazon! I believe this is Dev’s latest release and features main characters who are trying to track down the owner of a ring.
From USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev comes the heartfelt story of a woman determined to reunite a lost ring with its owner, who ends up finding herself along the way.
Mira Salvi has the perfect life—a job she loves, a fiancé everyone adores, and the secure future she’s always imagined for herself. Really, she hasn’t a thing to complain about, not even when she has to go on her engagement trip to New York alone.
While playing tourist in the city, Mira chances upon a lost ring, and her social media post to locate its owner goes viral. With everyone trying to claim the ring, only one person seems to want to find its owner as badly as Mira journalist Krish Hale. Brooding and arrogant, he will do anything to get to write this story.
As Krish and Mira reluctantly join forces and jump into the adventure of tracing the ring back to where it belongs, Mira begins to wonder if she is in the right place in her own life. She had to have found this ring for a reason…right? Maybe, like the owner of the lost ring, her happy ending hasn’t been written yet either.
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A Duke in the Rough
A Duke in the Rough by Trisha Messmer is $2.49! This is book one in a historical romance series and features a new duke hiding his identity.
How can a newly minted duke escape title-seeking debutantes? Lie, of course!
Lady Honoria Bell never recovered from her broken heart. Fending off suitors her marquess father forces in her path, she’s put aside hopes of marriage. However, word of a house party hosted by the new, eligible Duke of Burwood brings a renewed gleam to her father’s eye. But regardless of the new duke’s appeal, Honoria knows he won’t fill the void Drake Merrick left.
If there’s one thing Drake Merrick knows, it’s that aristocratic women care more about a title than they do love. Losing the love of his life because he was a lowly groom proved it. So, when a twist of fate makes him the new Duke of Burwood, he’s determined to choose a bride who wants him—not his title.
Switching places with his man of business seems like the perfect plan to test the affections of eager debutantes. Until it backfires the moment Honoria arrives, and he realizes his heart will always be irrevocably hers.
But will his deception allow her to prove her love? Or will his lies destroy it?
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The Rook
RECOMMENDED: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley $2.99! Carrie loves the series, especially the sequel Stiletto. It’s urban fantasy set in London with a badass cast of characters. But some found the book to have a lot of info-dumping. Have you read The Rook?
“The body you are wearing used to be mine.” So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her.
She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Chequy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that she possesses a rare, potentially deadly supernatural ability of her own.
In her quest to uncover which member of the Chequy betrayed her and why, Myfanwy encounters a person with four bodies, an aristocratic woman who can enter her dreams, a secret training facility where children are transformed into deadly fighters, and a conspiracy more vast than she ever could have imagined.
Filled with characters both fascinating and fantastical, THE ROOK is a richly inventive, suspenseful, and often wry thriller that marks an ambitious debut from a promising young writer.
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I was today years old when I realized KU books CAN be sold at other retailers, only in formats that are not ebooks. Both the Messmer and Dev books are of interest, but …
Joanna Bourne’s THE SPYMASTER’S LADY is on sale for $1.99 pretty much everywhere today. I recall some problematic issues (it’s been a while), but I loved her characters and stories.
I also enjoyed Joanna Bourne’s THE SPYMASTER’S LADY and have read it a number of times.
@Darlynne – It is so frustrating to find e-books only on Amazon and only available for Kindle. I really wish we had a law requiring interoperability. There is no technical reason why books couldn’t be compatible with multiple devices and multiple e-book reader software applications. None. This is purely about Amazon maintaining a monopoly. And don’t be fooled when someone says to you that it’s not a limitation because you can install the kindle app where ever you like because this is simply not true. Even if it were true, who’s to say that I want to use the kindle app to read the book? Maybe I’d prefer someone else’s app!
Big Amazon sale right now, various books by Eloisa James, Julie Anne Long, Sarah McLean, Lynsey Sands, and many more!
@book_reader_ea01sj71r4: It’s more of a rights issue. Example: Sonali’s book is published by Amazon’s publishing arm, so there are probably stipulations in her publishing contract about ebook rights, not necessarily compatibility.
I think a number of deals from over the weekend are still valid–I have not copied them over.
Free:
– Montana Defender by Karen Foley
$.99:
– A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh, Rahul Kanakia
– Best Friend to Doctor Right (Harlequin Medical Romance) by Ann McIntosh
– Almost Just Friends: A Novel (The Wildstone Series Book 4)
by Jill Shalvis
– His Risk to Take (A Line of Duty Book 2) by Tessa Bailey
– The Lady Is Tempted (Avon Historical Romance) by Cathy Maxwell
$1.49:
– Running Away with the Bride: An opposites attract romance with a twist (Nights at the Mahal Book 2) by Sophia Singh Sasson
– The Baby Swap That Bound Them: A Black Romance Novel by Hana Sheik
$1.99:
– A Merry Little Meet Cute: A Steamy Plus-Size Holiday Rom-Com about an Adult Film Star and a Former Bad-Boy Pop Star (A Christmas Notch Book 1)
by Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone
– One Night Only: An Unexpected Pregnancy Romance (Hana Trio Book 2)
by Jayci Lee
– Only Enchanting: Flavian’s Story (A Survivors’ Club Novel Series Book 4) by Mary Balogh
– Unfortunately Yours: A Sizzling Romantic Comedy with a Vineyard Setting, Unbearable Attraction, and Hilarious Banter (Vine Mess Book 2)
by Tessa Bailey
– Secretly Yours: A Novel (Vine Mess Book 1) by Tessa Bailey
– Magic Has No Borders by Samira Ahmed, Naz Kutub
– Fangirl Down: A Novel (Big Shots Book 1) by Tessa Bailey
– Curves for Days (Big Love from Galway Book 1) by Laura Moher
– Getaway Girl: A Novel (The Girl Series Book 1) by Tessa Bailey
– Runaway Girl: A Novel (The Girl Series Book 2) by Tessa Bailey
– Indecent Exposure: A Spicy Police Academy Romance Fueled by Secrets and Desire (The Academy Book 2) by Tessa Bailey
– Death Comes to Marlow: A Novel (The Marlow Murder Club Book 2) by Robert Thorogood
– Make a Wish by Helena Hunting
– The Jane Austen Society: A Novel by Natalie Jenner
– Dream Lake: A Friday Harbor Novel by Lisa Kleypas
– Mistakes Were Made: A Novel by Meryl Wilsner
$2.99:
– Tessa Bailey Book Set 2: Chase Me/ Need Me / Make Me (Broke and Beautiful) by Tessa Bailey
@Amanda: Yes. Definitely. It’s a legal issue rather than a technical issue. But we created the legal framework that allows Amazon to write these kind of contracts and make them enforceable. We also created the legal framework that allows Amazon to sell e-books in proprietary formats that only its own devices can understand, locking authors and readers into Amazon’s ecosystem. This is bad for readers, bad for authors, bad for libraries, and bad for anyone whose name isn’t Amazon.
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I love, love Cat Sebastian. Just a note that The Ruin of a Rake is one of her earlier published romances and it shows – the plot to romance ratio is off, especially compared to her more recent books. It is one of my comfort re-reads though.
Re-reading the linked review and the comments was sure a blast from the past. Especially my reservations about an Avon historical style gay romance and how I landed on “well, don’t we queer readers deserve the same fluffi-fication of history that straight readers get?”
Little did I know how much I’d come to LOVE Cat Sebastian’s approach to queering historical romance and also how much her style would grow.
@cleo exactly my senitiment! Cat Sebastian came early in my dive into gay romance and her books are wonderful. Ruin of a Rake is a comfort read for me too!
You know how we used to say that a middling book by Loretta Chase was often better than most other authors’ best works? (Or something to that effect.)
Well, I think that anything by Cat Sebastian is like that. I am basically always happy with her books. She can get away with a level of cozy “What plot?” that would annoy me with anyone else, but from her is just what I need. It’s pretty magical.
In good news, she sent out a newsletter update recently to let us all know that she has a new, sounds-like-indie-published book coming in the fall and then her first contemporary – “Star Shipped” – will be out next spring.