Today’s Steals and Deals at AAR…..
I love this review so hard. Em is such a strong writer! She is missed. Anyway, she raved about this book and I agree with her. It’s a marvelous entry by Kleypas!
Oh, reader. I loved the chemistry between this pair and Kleypas does a wonderful job juxtaposing Keir’s gruff, slightly rustic persona with the lovely, dazzling (not averse to a potentially scandalous love affair), Merritt Sterling. Devil in Disguise features two mature adults who adore each other from the moment they first meet, and aren’t too shy to admit it. She deftly shows how overwhelming and intense and wonderful and surprising and confusing these feelings are for both principals, but readers are never left in doubt these two are meant for each other. Keir and Merritt spend a passionate, extremely sexy night together before Kleypas pulls the rug out from under them, and this reader WAS HERE FOR IT. The heat level in DiD is a bit higher than other Kleypas novels, and reader, it’s a treat. Keir is a capable, enthusiastic lover and he’s so, so good to Merritt. I loved everything about this pair and their steamy love story.
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.
I adore a good Revolutionary War love story and this one looks like it might fit the bill! Here’s the blurb:
Virginia Munro could not believe her ears. This bewigged, bejeweled, and bedeviling man was trying to buy her? As if she were some trollop on the Boston docks?
Before she’s fully able to give in to her outrage, the fop moves on—and Virginia refuses to spare him another thought.
But Quincy Stanton is not what he seems. By day, he poses as a carefree Loyalist with an army of wigs and a wardrobe that favors lavender. By night, he wages a secret war against the British with an impressive collection of eighteenth-century spy gadgets. If anyone were to discover the truth, Quincy would hang, yet he can’t seem to stay away from the lovely and saucy Virginia. Will their attraction lead to love . . . or danger?
It’s on sale for 0.99 here.
I enjoyed this back in the day! In my review, I wrote:
Taste for Trouble opens with the familiar scene of a perfectionist female getting left at the altar by her “I’ve fallen in love with your assistant” fiance. The dumpee is Belinda West, a driven woman who is the second in command on “Kate Every Day,” a popular syndicated daytime TV show. Belinda is upset about her jilting, but not because she loves her jilter. He is just a good friend who, until he fell for another woman, had agreed with Belinda that “Love is nothing more than an excuse to be fickle, impulsive and selfish. People shouldn’t build a lunch date around it, let alone a marriage.” Belinda is, however, dismayed that the entire world, as well as Kate of “Kate Every Day”, has just watched Belinda’s non-wedding on national TV. Kate, who is poised to pick her successor – Belinda was sure it would be her – tells Belinda she’s clearly not up to “Kate Every Day” standards and fires her.
Belinda and Kate’s agent, a truly lovely man named Bob Beck, tells Belinda she can win her job back if she takes agrees to a (ludicrous) scheme Bob and Kate have cooked up. Another of Bob’s clients, the man-child soccer star James Blake, is in need of a manners nanny. James is in danger of being kicked off the DC Statesmen because, as Bob says, “He drinks, he fights, and if he’s ever had a date he didn’t pick up in a strip club I’ve never met her.” Bob proposes that Belinda spend the four weeks supervising James and his two brothers, Will and Drew. When Belinda asks for clarification, Bob explains.
“It means that each week for the next four weeks, Kate will assign you a new social grace to teach our boy. At the end of each week, she’ll evaluate his performance and yours. Brutally. You pass and you get your job back in time for the Kate Every Day Christmas Special.”
Belinda, who has spent the last twelve years of her life, dreaming of living a “Kate Every Day” life, agrees.
It’s a fun read and is free here!