Good morning and Merry Christmas to everyone who is celebrating!
Time for the second night of our annual eight straight days of giveaways to celebrate Hanukkah!
Today, we’re celebrating Carrie’s love of science fiction, kickass heroines, fantasy, history, subversiveness, and comics!
Some of the items in this giveaway are so awesome, I was seriously tempted to switch them out with something else, but NO.
These are for y’all and… yeah, have a look:
The LoungeFly Black Widow Mini Dome Satchel, which I mentioned in a recent gift guide and recommended by Jennifer Estep.
A Hardcover copy of Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath
A selection of three matchbook-style notebooks featuring the original covers of Flowers from the Storm, The Flame and the Flower, and The Kadin, produced to celebrate Avon’s 75th Anniversary.
A spiral bound vintage Harlequin cover notebook, featuring Nine to Five. You can keep all your own not-too-private secrets in there!
Ready to enter! Leave a comment telling us what romance is absolutely on your keeper shelf for ever and ever. Is it an older title you’ve moved several times from home to home? Is it a new book that blew your mind? What’s on your keeper shelf?
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age and ready to kick ass and take names. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Fierceness is not only advisable, it’s highly recommended. Please recycle any opened cans of whoop ass at the nearest recycling facility. Interested parties should dance on any table they like at any time.  Comments will close at or near 12pm ET on Monday 26 December 2016 and winners will be announced shortly afterward.
Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for being part of Smart Bitches!
ETA: Congratulations! We have a winner, thanks to the power of random integers: comment #11 from Elvish!
Thank you to everyone who entered, and come back until the last day of Hanukkah – we’re having mayhem-levels of fun every night until then!
The Rake and the Reformer by Mary Jo Putney.
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
My Heyers have to stay with me always.
Joanna Bourne’s Spymaster series. Absolutely.
Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer.
My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart. I have multiple copies & a compulsion to buy any copies I come across.
My answer has to be Flowers from the Storm! My favorite romance, I love it so, so much.
Lady Sophia’s Lover by Lisa Kleypas. And the rest of the Bow Street series. And the Wallflower series. And the Hathaway series. And I really can’t leave out Dreaming of You or Where Dreams Begin… 🙂
“Imagine” by Jill Barnett. It was the book that first got me into historical romance.
The first contemporary romance which got me hooked on the genre- Anyone but You by Jennifer Crusie
Does Fangirl count as a romance? Cause that’s a keeper for sure.
And I keep all four of my copies of Pride and Prejudice with me wherever I go….
Reaper’s Legacy by Joanna Wylde. I have super high standards for my biker romances, and this one is my favorite out of all the romances I’ve read.
_Shards of Honor_ by Lois McMaster Bujold! Yes, I know it’s classed as SF, but this particular book is wayyyy more Romance than SF – and despite being her first published book, it still has that indefinable Bujold magic.
Also, Cordelia kicks serious ass!
A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson. It was rereleased as The Secret Countess and is classified as YA today, but I love that book beyond all reason. Also, anything by Kathleen Gilles Seidel.
Mine is Outlander, of course!
Every single book Nora Roberts/JD Robb has ever written.
Everything by Sarah Maclean, but especially Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover
Scandal Wears Satin by Loretta Chase. It’s the novel I always go for when I want a good comfort read with leads I utterly adore. I feel like I’ve reread it so many times I could recite it word for word by this point, haha.
Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
“Alpha & Omega” by Patricia Briggs, the novella where it all began for Anna and Charles. The spine is cracked and the pages are falling out of my paperback copy of “On the Prowl,” so it probably time to buy the electronic version of their story.
Defy Not the Heart, by Johanna Lindsey. I can’t not keep my first. 🙂
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. The romance!!! Can I get Jamie Frasier under my tree?
The Madness of Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley. Beauty by Robin McKinley.
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull. Not technically a romance, but it stays on my shelf because of the developing relationship between the two main characters, so it counts for me.
A Bollywood affair! Love that book
Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas! I just love that book <3
Outlander- Gabaldon & True Pretenses- Lerner
Sherry Thomas’s Not Quite a Husband is one of my keepers.
Kadin by Bertrice Small, it was the first book I bought for myself instead of reading my aunt’s or mom’s books.
For me, it’S The Thorn Birds! An old Brazilian friend of my mom’s gave us the DVD of the miniseries when I was 16 or so. Australia! Tragedy! Super forbidden romance! Horrible, self-involved men who are called out on it. Angry, quiet and strong women! Religious drama! I devoured the book and loved it. I lost my library copy while on spring break in San Francisco & had to pay a huge replacement fine, but I ended up buying a copy for myself anyway.
Sherry Thomas’ Not Quite a Husband and Jennifer Crusie’s Anyone But You.
A Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas and of course, Pride and Prejudice.
On my keeper shelf is Mine Until Midnight by Lisa Kleypas.
Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas. Great giveaway. Happy Holidays to all!
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie. Both as an audiobook and a digital copy. Need to find a new copy in print to loan out.
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase. (and Naked in Death – JD Robb)
In recent (ish) purchases, Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins. In less recent purchases, Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare.
Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert Jenkins (public domain, so easy to replace)
Faking it by Jennifer Crusie. I’ve passed copies on and then found I absolutely needed to read the book again.
Happy holidays everyone.
The Wind Dancer! Super early Iris Johansen is where it all started for me and I haven’t looked back since. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah y’all!