I was somewhat surprised to realize we’ve reviewed Christina Dodd forty times at AAR and yet, we’ve never done A Knight to Remember. Readers like it–it’s got a 4.3 rating at Amazon from almost 150 readers. (That’s pretty good for a ten year old book. Here’s the blurb:

She cannot risk ruin . . .

Once the Duchess of Cleere, Lady Edlyn is now a widow. After suffering a humiliating scandal, she is forced to take refuge in an abbey, where she uses her skills as an herbalist to heal injured soldiers. When she’s asked to tend to the wounds of a knight who’s in hiding, she’s shocked to discover he is none other than Hugh de Florisoun—the man she has desired for years. Yet she knows surrendering to the temptation he presents could be her ultimate downfall.

For a night of passion . . .

Renowned for his prowess on the battlefield, Lord Hugh de Florisoun never imagined the day would come that he’d see the beautiful, refined Lady Edlyn working as a common peasant—and in a nunnery, no less. His yearning for her burns as strongly as ever. But Edlyn scorns all his advances. Somehow Hugh must find a way to unlock her heart—before secrets from both of their pasts jeopardize any chance for a future together.

It’s for sale at Amazon for 1.99 here.

We’ve given Beatriz Williams five DIKs and seven Bs–she’s never gotten a B or lower grade at AAR. We didn’t review Our Woman in Moscow but it sounds fascinating. Here’s the blurb:

In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets?

Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of counterintelligence agent Sumner Fox in a precarious plot to extract the Digbys from behind the Iron Curtain.

But the complex truth behind Iris’s marriage defies Ruth’s understanding, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice between two irreconcilable loyalties.

It’s on sale at Amazon for 1.99 here.

Two of my favorite novellas are included in this anthology by Courtney Milan. We gave both The Governess Affair and A Kiss for Midwinter well-deserved DIKs. In Caz’s review of the latter, she wrote:

A Kiss for Midwinter is an offshoot of Ms. Milan’s current Brothers Sinister series, a companion novella that takes place after the events of The Duchess War and which tells the story of Minnie’s best friend, Miss Lydia Charingford. We learned in the earlier novel that Lydia’s past contains a scandal which could ruin her if it became known, and in this story, we learn what actually happened.

Now twenty-one, Miss Charingford is vivacious and well-liked. She is always cheerful and the sort of person for whom the glass always seems half-full – an optimist who always finds the good in everyone. The only person who is able to see beyond the face Lydia presents to the world (and even to herself) is the local doctor, Jonas Grantham. He is very taken with Lydia, and would like to court her but she dislikes him intensely and doesn’t scruple to let him know it. He is the only person outside her immediate family (and Minnie) who knows of her disgrace. She doesn’t want to be reminded of it in the form of the handsome and somewhat sardonic young man who was, at the time, acting as an assistant to the local, narrow-minded, stick-in-the-mud physician.

But Jonas is a remarkably constant chap and he determines to wait for her to relent. Yet after sixteen months of waiting, Lydia still can’t stand to be near him. In an attempt to spend a little time with her in a last-ditch effort to get her to see him as the man he really is rather than the man she believes him to be, he proposes a wager.

“I wager,” he said, “that I could show you a situation before Christmas that would be beyond even your capacity for good cheer.”

If she wins, Lydia wants Jonas to promise that he will never speak to her again. If he wins, he wants a kiss.

Believing he wants to teach her some sort of lesson about her eternal optimism, Lydia agrees to accompany Jonas on three house-calls. He takes her to see some of his poorest patients, thus beginning a most unconventional courtship. But where Jonas sees people in poor health who are struggling to make ends meet in difficult situations, Lydia is also able to find genuine love, kindness, and devotion….

As ever, I stand in awe of Courtney Milan’s ability to craft a novella in which both story and characters are fully developed and which packs as much of an emotional punch (if not more) than many full-length novels. A Kiss for Midwinter was a delight from start to finish, a lovely story for the holiday period in which a broken young woman receives the gift of truth and a deserving young man gets his heart’s desire.

The collection is on sale for 2.99 here.

All three of Alexis Hall’s Arden St. Ives books are on sale right now. In our review of the second, How to Blow It with a Billionaire, Em wrote:

By now, if you’ve read How to Bang a Billionaire, you’ve recognized that the Arden St. Ives trilogy is Alexis Hall’s riff on the super popular bildom romantic trope, and specifically, on Fifty Shades.

Reader, How to Blow it With a Billionaire is so much better than any of those other stories, I almost feel silly comparing it to them.  Sexy, funny, clever, smart… everything about this series elevates the familiar trope, making it feel fresh and new.  In How to Blow it With a Billionaire, the author quickly delivers what readers were hoping for at the end of book one – a happy reunion between Arden and Caspian.  But this begs the question – what happens next?

HTBIWAB is darker and more difficult than the first novel, and the ending broke my heart….

….If you’re looking for an intriguing, complex and romantic billionaire romance, look no further – the  Arden St. Ives series is all that and more.

You can get all three for 1.99 each here.

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