Today’s Steals and Deals at AAR…..

This is a recent release–we very much enjoyed it!
My Inconvenient Duke is the third book in Loretta Chase’s Difficult Dukes series, although it’s first chronologically, as it takes place a few months before the events of book one, A Duke in Shining Armor. We know Giles, Duke of Blackwood, as the only married one of their Dis-Graces, the three dukes known throughout society for being irresponsible, totally outrageous, and not giving a damn; his wife, Alice, is Ripley’s sister. The bulk of My Inconvenient Duke is the story of how Giles and Alice came to be married, with the final quarter delving into the reasons for the estrangement we’ve witnessed between them in the other books.
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.

Life having you feeling overwhelmed? Here’s a lovely comfort read.
In this friends-to-lovers tale featuring a healthy dose of unrequited love and a side of secret baby, Ms. Yates ticks off the tropes in record time while delivering a satisfying HEA. Bennett Dodge has been working with his best friend Kaylee at Gold Valley’s veterinary clinic for a while, which is a great arrangement since they also happen to be best friends. Well, it’s great for Bennett and more torturous for Kaylee, who is absolutely over-the-moon in love with our hero while he has absolutely zero idea. When Bennett is abruptly given care of his heretofore unknown teenage son, all the things he once held as sure seem a little fuzzier and he realizes that Kaylee may just be his best everything.
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.

Looking for a dense historical romance set in an interesting time?
Originally published in 2004, Splendor is a richly detailed and captivating story which moves from London to St. Petersburg over the course of a few months in the fateful year of 1812. With Napoleon’s army sweeping across Europe, Russia is under threat of invasion and Tsar Alexander has sent his cousin, Prince Nicholas Sverayov, to England in order to make peace with their former enemy and negotiate an alliance against Bonaparte.
The prince is highly intelligent, liberal in his views, well-read and honourable, with a dry wit he doesn’t display often to those who don’t know him well. He’s also very handsome and charming, and is certainly not averse to living up to his reputation as a ladies’ man, despite the fact that he’s married to one of the most beautiful women in Europe.
Carolyn Browne is the daughter of a London bookseller who works in her father’s shop and earns a little extra money by penning a satirical column for The Morning Chronicle under the pseudonym of Charles Copperville. She disguises herself as a servant in order to gain access to the grand events where she picks up the juiciest gossip and makes her observations as to the depravity and self-absorption of the upper classes. When her pen turns to berating the morals of a certain Russian prince, Nicholas is furious and determines to try to discover the true identity of the mysterious Mr Copperville and put a stop to his persistent barbs. When fate throws the young Mr Charles Brighton into his path, Nicholas is fairly sure that not only has he found his satirist – but that the young man is not a man at all, and he decides to play “him” at his own game.
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.

Wow! I can’t believe Chase is on sale at this price. But the industry’s move to pricing Kindle books at MMP prices (which I will not pay), and trade paperbacks at almost $20 is probably to blame. No one is stocking the paper version of the book because it was issued in mass market paper format rather than trade.