Wednesday, May 29, 2013

History Made Today

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Now, on to the freebies. Today... Historical Romance. I've read some of these. See my Historical Reviews : http://nkuhnreviews.blogspot.com/2013/05/historical-reviews.html



Enjoy


The Pirate and the Feisty Maid -- Part One: At His Hand (A Steamy Pirate Romance) (The Feisty Maid Series)
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All Molly wants is to spend her time in Ronan's arms, but when he's away at sea for months at a time, she can't help getting into trouble. Now she'll have to suffer the consequences at Ronan's hand-- a punishment she's all too keen on.

With him barely back a week, she's none too happy to hear he'll be leaving for another nine months away on the high seas. She's damned if she's going to sit idly by and wait for him, but he has his own plans for keeping his sweet lass out of trouble. 


Question is, who'll get their way? The pirate or the feisty maid? 


*Not suitable for readers under 18 years of age*







The Letter
The story of a betrayal that wasn't. Even so, it still tore two lovers apart for eleven years. On the eve of their wedding, Michael Jeffres, Earl of Daventry, found his betrothed, the woman who meant as much to him as the air he breathed, in bed with his cousin. Diana, the daughter of a marquess, remembers nothing of that night. All she knows is she was forced to marry Michael's cousin, Leo, and then spent the next eleven years in hell. When the two lovers are brought back together by a letter from Leo a year after his death, Michael and Diana must struggle through all the lies and secrets before they can find a love that far surpasses the one of their youth.








Rose in the Brier
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Sterling Fairchild returned from war wounded and looking for more from life than being the second son of a duke. He finds it in the arms of midwife and aspiring physician Cecilia, the disgrace and outcast of local society.















Midnight Waltz (Louisiana Plantation Collection)
He came to her in the dark of the moon...


Arranged marriages are common among Louisiana's aristocratic Creoles, but Amalie's new husband shows little interest in his bride. That is, until his handsome cousin Robert arrives at Bonheur Plantation. How can the man she married remain so cool and aloof during the day, while approaching her with such tender passion at midnight?


Robert declines the outrageous favor asked of him -- yet some sins are impossible to resist...


As mystery, deception and murderous danger stalk the sultry land, Amalie and Robert must choose between love and duty, between desire's sweet rhapsody and the painful truth.







Roxena and the Bounty Hunter
In 1838 Michigan, a free state, has become a pathway for runaway slaves on their way to sanctuary in Canada. Roxena and her family do what they can to help them. Then Ethan arrives from Tennessee, and Roxena takes a liking to the handsome stranger. He claims to be hunting wolves for their bounty, but as time goes on, she suspects he’s hunting more than wild game. She vows to have nothing to do with a slave hunter and decides she doesn’t need a man in her life. Ethan, though, is intent on courting Roxena, until he discovers she is keeping secrets from him. It takes another stranger to make two stubborn people see the truth and to truly see each other.








Royal Passion (The Royal Princes of Ruthenia)
Sequel to to the international bestseller, ROYAL SEDUCTION...


Mara has no idea how to seduce a royal prince, or what he will do when she betrays him...


During a grand tour of Europe, Mara's grandmother falls prey to a gamester. When she can't settle her losses, the enigmatic gentleman makes a chilling demand: Mara must seduce the brilliant and dangerous prince of Ruthenia or her grandmother will suffer.


Prince Roderic, dynamic son of Rolfe and Angeline from Royal Seduction, is intrigued by the Louisiana belle who comes to him in a French gypsy camp. He is also wary: France seethes with political unrest that has spread to his home country, and he must guard against assassination. Trusting kisses that come too easily would be foolish. He will take what Mara offers but guard his back -- and his heart.


Dread stalks Mara as the desire she pretends turns to fiery reality. Which of the two people she loves must she sacrifice when the time comes -- her grandmother or the prince?







Southern Rapture (The Louisiana History Collection)
How wanton she must be that she can thrill so to the kisses of two different men...


Lettie arrives in Reconstruction Louisiana from the northeast to teach plantation children, but also to find the man called the Thorn who murdered her brother. She takes a room at a rundown mansion with Aunt Em and her nephew Ransom who, following a head injury received in the war, has a heartbreaking smile and the mind of a boy.


The welcoming friendliness that greets her, the honest care and concern, threaten Lettie's preconceived ideas. Her dormant sensuality comes alive in the sultry Southern heat. She is drawn to Ransom who joins the lessons she teaches but instructs her in ways she'll never forget. And when she clashes with the Thorn in the dark, this magnificent nightrider -- labeled a killer by some but courageous righter-of-wrongs by others -- arouses unimagined passion.


Yet Lettie clings to her quest, coming finally to painful, secret knowledge that can become a trap for the Thorn. Using it requires only one thing -- that she abandon love and desire for the cold comfort of duty.







With This Kiss
The Beauty:

All eyes feasted on the beautiful flame-haired gambler in London’s most infamous club. But Julia Prentisse was interested only in the rake-turned-recluse whom they now called “The Beast.” She lured him out of the crowded gaming hell to a deserted warehouse, where she made her scandalous offer: If he married her and protected her from her uncle, she would help him capture the arsonist who had ruined his life.

The Beast:

An act of heroism had left Morgan St.James burned, scarred for life, but Julia’s bold gaze lit other fires he had long suppressed. And now this glorious stranger was his bride. But when he tried to claim his husbandly rights, she demanded three months grace—three months to know a stranger’s mind, to touch a stranger’s soul, to go where no woman had ever gone before. Into his heart…



Child of the Mist (These Highland Hills, Book 1)
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In the harsh Scottish highlands of 1565, superstition and treachery threaten a truce between rival clans. It's a weak truce at first, bound only by an arranged engagement between Anne MacGregor and Niall Campbell-the heirs of the feuding families.

While Niall wrestles with his suspicions about a traitor in his clan, Anne's actions do not go unnoticed. And as accusations of witchcraft abound, the strong and sometimes callous Campbell heir must fight for Anne's safety among disconcerted clan members. Meanwhile his own safety in threatened with the ever-present threat of someone who wants him dead.

Will Niall discover the traitor's identity in time? Can Anne find a way to fit into her new surroundings? Will the two learn to love each other despite the conflict? With a perfect mix of a burgeoning romance and thrilling suspense, this book is historical fiction at its best.






Paradise Valley (The Daughters of Caleb Bender Book #1)
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An Amish settlement in Ohio has run afoul of a law requiring their children to attend public school. Caleb Bender and his neighbors are arrested for neglect, with the state ordering the children be placed in an institution. Among them are Caleb's teenage daughter, Rachel, and the boy she has her eye on, Jake Weaver. Romance blooms between the two when Rachel helps Jake escape the children's home. 

Searching for a place to relocate his family where no such laws apply, Caleb learns there's inexpensive land for sale in Mexico, a place called Paradise Valley. Despite rumors of instability in the wake of the Mexican revolution, the Amish community decides this is their answer. And since it was Caleb's idea, he and his family will be the pioneers. They will send for the others once he's established a foothold and assessed the situation.

Caleb's daughters are thrown into turmoil. Rachel doesn't want to leave Jake. Her sister, Emma, who has been courting Levi Mullet, fears her dreams of marriage will be dashed. Miriam has never had a beau and is acutely aware there will be no prospects in Mexico.

Once there, they meet Domingo, a young man and guide who takes a liking to Miriam, something her father would never approve. While Paradise Valley is everything they'd hoped it would be, it isn't long before the bandits start giving them trouble, threatening to upset the fledgling Amish settlement, even putting their lives in danger. Thankfully no one has been harmed so far, anyway.





Marti Talbott's Highlander Series 1 (Anna, Rachel & Charlet)
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ANNA -- In love with a woman he had only seen once and could not find, the Highlander, Kevin MacGreagor was growing older and needed a wife to give him sons. No other woman pleased him, not even the daughters of other lairds, so he finally settled for Anna sight unseen. But when his men went to meet her guard, she was all alone and badly beaten. Who could have done such a thing and why? 

RACHEL -- had a dark secret and even she didn't know what it was. She was seventeen, determined to become as good a warrior as any Highlander, and was firmly against taking a husband. Connor had other ideas. He loved Rachel and when a rival clan took her, he thought he would lose his mind. How would he ever get her back and if he did, would her dark secret separate them forever?

CHARLET -- The King of England asked the Highlander, Kevin MacGreagor, to hide a baby girl and save her life. But sixteen years later, someone discovered where she was. To Blair Cameron fell the duty of hiding and protecting Charlet. It was not an easy task. She was furious, head-strong and determined to run from him. Could Blair keep her alive? And if he did, could he keep himself from falling in love with her?






The Wronged Princess - Book I (Cinderella Series)

Even when Cinderella loses her glass slipper, she feels quite smug when Prince Charming announces to his kingdom, he'll try the shoe on every maiden until he finds his mysterious princess. Unfortunately, it slides just as easily on her sister, Esmeralda's dainty foot.










Child of the King

The daughter of Paulus and Alysia is grown now, and ready for a life of her own...but Rachel is unable to rise above her past, and something that happened in Rome, years ago. Metellus, former tribune in the Praetorian Guard, has been commissioned by the emperor to bring Rachel from Jerusalem to Rome, and it is a journey that will affect both their lives...in ways they never could have imagined. This standalone novel is Book III in the "Woman of Sin" trilogy.








Lady Myddelton's Lover (An Edwardian Romance)

An Edwardian historical romance novella (15,000 words) set in the time period made popular by Downton Abbey. If you're in the mood for something short and steamy, but with a touch of humor, please enjoy!

Aline, Countess of Myddelton is a very proper widow whose friends feel she has mourned her husband long enough. Their surprise birthday gift of a secret lover backfires, for the man who appears to seduce the propriety out of her is her husband’s much younger and very tempting heir. But Richard, long in love with her, cannot stop with just one touch, or one kiss, and he vows to make Aline his by means fair or foul.





Scotsmen Prefer Blondes (Muses of Mayfair)

She never wanted marriage...

When a friend is forced to consider a marriage of convenience, Lady Amelia Staunton is determined to rescue her. But her plans trap her in an illicit seduction, and Amelia must marry him herself. Malcolm's all-consuming kisses and devilish humor might make up for her lost freedom, but she believes he will force her to abandon the Gothic romances she yearns to write. Since she can't escape him, she must distract him from her secret...

He isn't looking for love...

A powerful autocrat with a well-hidden rebellious streak, Malcolm MacCabe doesn't need another beautiful mistress - he needs an obedient wife. Obedience is not one of Amelia's virtues. But he's too enthralled by her wit and passion to let her go - even if it means risking the political reputation he is building to save his clan.

Their hearts can't survive the scandal...

Despite their intentions, every wicked embrace binds them together. But as their conflicting desires combust into insatiable hunger and unavoidable ruin, they must decide whether to pursue their personal destinies alone - or fight for the love that could destroy them both.





Celtic Fury (Celtic Storm)

Intended for Audiences 18 and older.

In 14th Century Scotland amid Highland Feuds and Clan division, rugged men fight for their birthrights and their place in history. The MacCollum and Campbell Clans are bitter enemies, especially for the son of the Laird MacCollum, Rory, the fabled and lethal Wolf of the Highlands. When his betrothed is killed at the hands of his enemies, Rory has sworn vengeance on all named Campbell. Darkness pervades this warrior to the point of poisonous destruction. Each day the darkness creeps forth, changing him and embattling his psyche. Each day, the blackness is becoming harder and harder to quell. Only Love can save him from the impending darkness, but his heart is walled. 
After years of self enforced exile in England, Rory returns to Scotland to seek his own destiny. On his journey, Rory aids and rescues a young woman who is broken and battered from a terrible accident. Rory knows he has to save her. In saving her, is it possible to save himself? His heart gradually opens, only to find this woman is his most sworn and hated enemy. Amid lies and betrayal, can Brielle’s love save Rory from the Darkness that seeps through his veins? Can her love prevent him from the self destructive course he has been destined to run?




Penelope ( A Madcap Regency Romance )

Leaving behind the rural charms of Finnshire, Miss Penelope Fairweather arrives in London with hope in her heart and a dream in her eye. The dowager, no less, has invited her for a season in London, where she will attempt to catch a husband.

Thus begins our heroine's tale as she attempts to tackle the London season with all her rustic finesse. Unfortunately, her rustic finesse turns out to be as delicate as a fat bear trying to rip apart a honeycomb infested with buzzing bees.

What follows is a series of misadventures, love affairs, moonlit balls, fancy clothes, fake moustaches, highwaymen, sneering beauties, pickpockets, and the wrath of a devilishly handsome duke.





Orphan of the Olive Tree - Historical Romance Saga

A blood oath, a dreadful curse, and the evil eye. A dark family secret that will shatter lives and the woman who must risk everything to keep it buried.

From two neighbouring villas in the heart of the Tuscan countryside to the elegance of Siena; from a world steeped in ancient superstitions to a culture where family honour is paramount comes, this multi-layered novel of the lives, loves, secrets and strivings of two women and their families in the 13th century. 

A blood oath to wed their first born children binds the Benevento and Ventura families. When Prudenza Benevento learns her nemesis, Felicia Ventura, is pregnant, she is jealous and secretly casts the curse of the evil eye upon her. Felicia gives birth to twin boys. Jealous, Prudenza visciously resurrects an ancient superstition that unidentical twins can only come from different fathers. The scandal tears apart Felicia's marriage and makes her an outcast in the small Italian village where they live.

Fate intervenes, and when Prudenza gives birth to twin daughters, she is desperate to save herself from the same scandal that ruined Felicia. She orders the midwife to take one daughter away. With only a gold ring and a brocade blanket as clues to the infant's past, the midwife leaves the child and the items in an olive tree in front of a small convent. The nuns lovingly name the child Olivia and raise her.

Years later, in a shocking encounter, Olivia meets a young man named Luca. When an act of God nearly kills her, it is Luca who comes to her rescue. Soon, their love for each cannot be denied. When she finds herself with child, Luca offers to care for her and the child, but cannot wed her because he is already betrothed. Despite her misgivings, her love for Luca proves strong and Olivia places her faith in him and follows him to his new villa and a new life. Luca makes numerous unsuccessful attempts to avoid his forthcoming marriage and marry Olivia instead, but the blood oath and Church laws make it impossible. As the date of Luca's wedding draws near, and the secrets of Olivia's secret past begin to surface, long buried secrets are exposed in a twist of fate no family member can anticipate. 

An absorbing novel about wicked intentions, medieval superstitions, a curse uttered in envy, undisclosed secrets, unstoppable destinies, and two generations of women and the extraordinary event that will vindicate or destroy them.





The Trouble With Sin (The Devil DeVere)

The Trouble with Sin ... Is the devil within... Aspiring poet Simon "Sin" Singleton, has lived his life only for larks, laughter, and ladies of easy virtue, eluding defying, and flouting all manner of authority until his impetuous misdeeds finally catch up with him. Having lost his muse, his allowance, and even his friends by edict from a tyrannical father and puritanical mother, Simon is ready to drown himself in drink, until receiving an ingenious proposition that could change everything.

The wages of Sin is......twenty-five percent of the net!It seems a fantasy come true when Simon is offered an independent income by combining his two great passions-- poetry and lewd women --by writing poetry about lewd women! Unfortunately, maintaining anonymity may be much harder than he thought...





Lily (Song of the River)

Cruise down the Mississippi with Natchez belle Lily Anderson. Needing to provide for herself and her sisters, Lily is desperately trying to make a go of a riverboat venture with co-owner Blake Matthews. But they fail to find anything to agree upon. Blake is enamored of the feisty Lily. Attempts to woo her may be lost to the devious Jean Luc Champney. Will the siren song of the river evolve into a serenade or a somber lament?
















Bold (The Handfasting)

Book 1 - BOLD 
13th Century Scottish Highlands

Talorc the Bold, the Laird MacKay, heard the MacBede battle cry, “For Our Maggie!” and witnessed the impossible victory it spurred. Determined to find and marry this Maggie for the might of the clan, Talorc soon discovers he must have the lass for himself and the grand power of their mating.

Maggie MacBede wants no part of The Bold. Raw from mourning her battle slain twin, fretful of six strapping brothers who survive skirmishes only to seek more combat, Maggie refuses to risk a husband to the sword. Give her a poet, a bard, any man but a fighting man, and she will find her match.

As hidden danger lurks, the clans intercede. Maggie is forced to accept Talorc with one concession; the commitment is limited to a year and a day, a Handfasting. If, in that time, the Bold wins Maggie’s heart, he may just lose her life.




Bargain Books







Seduced by a Pirate $0.99 Amazon

In Eloisa James's companion story to The Ugly Duchess, Sir Griffin Barry, captain of the infamous pirate ship The Poppy, is back in England to claim the wife he hasn't seen since their wedding day . . . but this is one treasure that will not be so easy to capture.













A Night to Surrender $0.99 Amazon

Welcome to Spindle Cove, where ladies with delicate constitutions come for the sea air, and men in their prime are . . . nowhere to be found.
Or are they?
Spindle Cove is the destination of choice for certain types of well-bred young ladies: the painfully shy, young wives disenchanted with matrimony, and young girls too enchanted with the wrong men; it is a haven for those who live there.
Victor Bramwell, the new Earl of Rycliff, knows he doesn't belong here. So far as he can tell, there's nothing in this place but spinsters . . .and sheep. But he has no choice, he has orders togather a militia. It's a simple mission, made complicated by the spirited, exquisite Susanna Finch--a woman who is determined to save her personal utopia from the invasion of Bram's makeshift army.
Susanna has no use for aggravating men; Bram has sworn off interfering women. The scene is set for an epic battle; but who can be named the winner when both have so much to lose?





One Touch of Scandal $0.99 Amazon

With One Touch of Scandal, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Liz Carlyle arrives at Avon Books and launches a breathtaking new historical romance series centered around the Zeno Society,  mysterious fraternity of dangerous—and dangerously attractive—men. Fans of Amanda Quick and Gaelen Foley’s Inferno Club novels will be swept away by One Touch of Scandal, a sensuous tale with a distinct gothic flavor—the story of an imperiled beauty accused of a heinous crime…and the dark lord who risks his most carefully protected secrets to come to her rescue.






The Farmer's Son $0.99 Amazon

A Delightful Regency Tale...

No one is worthy of love, but love makes them worthy...

Lady Ellen Spencer comes into an inheritance of a country estate as well as a sizable dowry. She is elated when the most sought-after bachelor of the Season offers for her hand. Yet, a farmer's son makes her heart race.









The Mercenary's Price (Historical Romance Novella) $0.99 Amazon

Being a national treasure wouldn't be such a curse if she only knew she could trust him.

Lady Eliza Harcourt, the queen's seer, is in danger of being kidnapped. To avoid such a fate, she will be whisked to safety during a royal masked ball. But when the man doing the whisking turns out to be Thomas Blackstone, she's no longer sure fleeing is a good idea.

Rejected by Eliza seven years earlier, Thomas has changed from the amiable second son of a lowly noble into a cold-hearted mercenary. Not only does she have to put up with the silent treatment, but she cannot be entirely certain he is on her side. The only thing she can be sure of is that he's still bitter about the rejection. And that she still loves him.




Highland Betrayal (Historical Erotic Story - Part II) (Highlander Deception) $0.99 Amazon

Esme MacInnes must follow her father’s command, and centuries of tradition, when she is ordered to marry Ewan MacFarlene. The only problem is she’s in love with his brother, Gavin. When war breaks out she finds herself in Gavin’s arms once more. Their ultimate betrayal sends Gavin fleeing to battle and Esme is left to face the consequences of their love.











Fortnight

No one is worthy of love, but love makes them worthy . . .

Oliver Darby is confident of his ability to woo a wife. So confident, he makes a wager to woo the highly eligible—and notoriously choosy—Charlotte Ainsworth in a mere fourteen days. Through his failures and successes, he discovers that love can spring from the unlikeliest of places.











The Earl with the Secret Tattoo (House of Brady) $0.99 Amazon

In this exclusive e-novella from Kieran Kramer, a daring young debutante learns that when it comes to love, there’s more than meets the eye…
Lady Eleanor Gibbs is shocked when she stumbles upon a tattooed London gentleman involved in an illicit embrace. Five years ago, a masked man bearing that same tattoo saved her and the six children of the Marquess and Marchioness of Brady from a band of thieves. Now, Ellie’s “hero”—better known as the notorious Earl of Tumbridge—appears to be no more than a common cad. When this master of seduction and corrupter of virtue dares to sabotage her marital opportunities, it’s more than Ellie can bear. What Ellie does not yet understand is that the inked scoundrel has a reason for ruining her chances for love: He wants her all to himself...






The Bayou Prince $0.99 Amazon

A rakish privateer for outlawed Jean LaFitte, must win the trust of the niece to Jean’s nemesis to persuade the man to pardon Jean.
However, the privateer soon discovers the willful, red-haired beauty isn’t exactly in her uncle’s good graces. She’s flaunted nearly every one of High Society’s rules.
Not that he’d mind joining her in those escapades, but getting her reinstated to her uncle’s goodwill means convincing her to act like a proper lady—something a man who spends his time wooing women is hardly trained to do.


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