Current Standings:
In exciting news, we've had our first tie! My One and Only Duke by Grace Burrowes tied with Wilde Child by Eloisa James. The match will be going into overtime (AKA a new poll) today to determine a winner. In Group 4, The Scandal of It All by Sophie Jordan (one of my all-time favorite historical romances by the way) beat out How to Train Your Earl by Amelia Gray. For Group 12, The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe knocked out A Duke in Time by Janna MacGregor. In the final match from Day Four, About a Rogue by Caroline Linden triumphed over This Earl of Mine by Kate Bateman. Now to the matches from Day Five. The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham beat out What Ales the Earl by Sally MacKenzie. In Group 13, The Rebel and the Rake by Emily Sullivan won over Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase. For Group 21, Never Trust a Pirate by Valerie Bowman beat As Rich as a Rogue by Jade Lee. Finally, in Group 29, When a Duke Loves a Governess by Olivia Drake triumphed over Wedding the Widow by Jenna Jaxon.
Enemies to Lovers Alley
Tonight's Books:
Group 6 - To Resist a Scandalous Rogue by Liana De la Rosa vs Between the Devil and the Duke by Kelly Bowen (March 23rd, 8pm)Group 14 - The Importance of Being Scandalous by Kimberly Bell vs Two Rogues Make a Right by Cat Sebastian (March 23rd, 8pm)
Group 22 - One Night with an Earl by Tina Gabrielle vs Some Like It Scandalous by Maya Rodale (March 23rd, 8pm)
Group 30 - The Bluestocking by Christi Caldwell vs A Taste of Honey by Rose Lerner (March 23rd, 8pm)
Author: Liana De La Rosa
Publisher: Entangled
Release: June 24, 2019
Series: Once Upon a Scandal #2
Pages: 354
My Review: 5 Stars
Synopsis:
For Finlay Swinton, Viscount Firthwell and only son of a powerful earl, life has been a lark…until he discovers a terrible family secret that could ruin him. Determined to make a name for himself free of scandal’s shadow, he runs for Parliament. However, he encounters Charlotte, the mysterious woman who disappeared after their one night together, and he finds it impossible to stay away, despite her working class status and Jewish faith that threaten to destroy his chance for success.
Widowed, penniless, and desperate, Charlotte Taylor secures a teaching position at a foundling home and relaxes into a predictable existence. That is, until Finlay, the man she shared one romantic night with, reappears, a specter from her past. He ignites her passion, even while he threatens the precarious foundation on which she’s rebuilt her life. But when those from her past return to endanger her hard-earned security, she’ll have to reveal his secret or go to prison.
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Author: Kelly Bowen
Publisher: Forever
Release: January 31, 2017
Series: Season for Scandal #3
Pages: 319
My Review: 5 Stars
Synopsis:
Their love was always in the cards.
He should have thrown her out. But when club owner Alexander Lavoie catches a mysterious blonde counting cards at his vingt-et-un table, he's more intrigued than angry. He has to see more of this beauty—in his club, in his office, in his bed. But first he'll have to devise a proposition she can't turn down.
Gossip said he was an assassin.
Common sense told her to stay away. But Angelique Archer was desperate, and Lavoie's club offered a surefire way to make quick money—until she got caught. Instead of throwing her out though, the devil offers her a deal: come work for him. Refusing him means facing starvation, but with a man so sinfully handsome and fiercely protective, keeping things professional might prove impossible.
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Author: Kimberly Bell
Publisher: Entangled
Release: July 25, 2017
Series: A Tale of Two Sisters #1
Pages: 250
My Review: 5 Stars
Synopsis:
A horse race in trousers on Rotten Row. Visiting a gaming hall in a dress that would make her mother faint. Sneaking an invitation to a masquerade ball attended by only the wickedest, most debauched members of society…
None of these things are scaring off bookish but strong-willed Amelia Bishop’s stuffy, egotistical fiancé.
The only thing left is to entice childhood friend Nicholas Wakefield into a truly engagement-ending scandal. The Wakefields are the height of propriety, and Nicholas’s parents have made it clear a wife from the neighboring Bishop family would be unacceptable…
But Nicholas would give up his family and his fortune if Amelia would ever see him as more than just a childhood friend. He’ll go along with her scheme, even if it means ruining them both, because he’s got a plan that will change her mind about him being merely the boy next door.
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Author: Cat Sebastian
Publisher: Avon
Release: June 23, 2020
Series: Seducing the Sedgwicks #3
Pages: 304
My Review: 5 Stars
Synopsis:
Will Sedgwick can’t believe that after months of searching for his oldest friend, Martin Easterbrook is found hiding in an attic like a gothic nightmare. Intent on nursing Martin back to health, Will kindly kidnaps him and takes him to the countryside to recover, well away from the world.
Martin doesn’t much care where he is or even how he got there. He’s much more concerned that the man he’s loved his entire life is currently waiting on him hand and foot, feeding him soup and making him tea. Martin knows he’s a lost cause, one he doesn’t want Will to waste his life on.
As a lifetime of love transforms into a tender passion both men always desired but neither expected, can they envision a life free from the restrictions of the past, a life with each other?
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Author: Tina Gabrielle
Publisher: Entangled
Release: October 18, 2021
Series: Daring Ladies #1
Pages: 372
My Review: 5 Stars
Synopsis:
Ana Gardner is determined to lose her virginity before her thirtieth birthday. She’s no stranger to fake identities, having posed as a chaperone since the scandal that destroyed her titled family. So she dons a mask, changes into a low-cut red gown, and attends the city’s most elite brothel, the Silver Chalice.
Oliver Bedford, the imposing Earl of Drake, is only at the Silver Chalice to appease his debauched friends—until he spots Lady Scarlet. She’s refreshing...and a complete mystery. Certain she’s a lady in disguise, Oliver is determined to learn her identity, but she eludes him at every turn.
The night with Oliver was unforgettable. But when he arrives at her employer’s home, she’s horrified to discover her lover is the Earl of Drake, the son of the man responsible for her father’s death and subsequent family ruin. And that he’s there to court her young charge.
Oliver never had any interest in the debutante, but he is drawn to her chaperone—a woman he soon realizes is his Lady Scarlet. Now that he’s found her, she claims she wants nothing to do with him, even though her kisses say otherwise. Fortunately, Oliver is not one to give up when he finds something he wants...and he wants Ana. In his bed, and in his life. Forever. But first, he must persuade her to trust him—and to believe that one wild, passionate night can turn into forever.
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Author: Maya Rodale
Publisher: Avon
Release: June 18, 2019
Series: The Gilded Age Girls Club #2
Pages: 357
Synopsis:
They are sworn enemies…
Theodore Prescott the Third, one of Manhattan’s Rogues of Millionaire Row, has really done it this time. The only way to survive his most recent, unspeakably outrageous scandal is marry someone respectable. Someone sensible. Someone like Daisy Swan. Of all the girls in Gilded Age Manhattan, it had to be her.
Pretending to be lovers...
Daisy Swan has plans and they do not involve a loveless marriage with anyone. But when a devastating family secret threatens to destroy her standing in society, suddenly a fake engagement with Theo is just the thing to make all her dreams come true.
And now it’s time to kiss and make up…
Daisy Swan aspires to sell cosmetics that she has created, but this brainy scientist needs a smooth talking charmer’s flair for words and eye for beauty to make it a success. Before long, Daisy and Theo are trading kisses. And secrets. And discovering that despite appearances, they might be the perfect couple after all.
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Author: Christi Caldwell
Publisher: Montlake
Release: May 7, 2019
Series: Wicked Wallflowers #4
Pages: 348
Synopsis:
Two damaged hearts learn there’s a fine line between love and hate in a Wicked Wallflowers novel from USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell.
Gertrude, the eldest Killoran sister, has spent a lifetime being underestimated—especially by her own family. She may seem as vulnerable as a kitten, but given the chance, she can be as fierce as a tiger. Her adopted brother, Stephen, has just been snatched back by his true father, and she’ll be damned if she relinquishes the boy to the man reviled throughout London as the Mad Marquess.
Still haunted by a deadly tragedy that left him publicly despised, Lord Edwin holds only hatred for the Killorans—the people he believes kidnapped his son. And not one of them will ever see the boy again. But when Gertrude forces her way into the household and stubbornly insists that she remain as Stephen’s governess, Edwin believes he may have found someone madder than himself.
With every moment he shares with the tenderhearted Gertrude, Edwin’s anger softens into admiration…and more. Is it possible that the woman he loathed may be the only person who can heal his broken soul?
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Author: Rose Lerner
Publisher: Rose Lerner
Release: September 12, 2017
Series: Lively St. Lemeston #3.5
Pages: 140
Synopsis:
Fire and ice cream...
Robert Moon risked everything, including his father’s hardwon legacy, to open his beloved Honey Moon Confectionery on the busiest street in Lively St. Lemeston. Now he’s facing bankruptcy and debtor’s prison.
When a huge catering order comes in, he agrees to close the sweet-shop for a week to fill it. There’s only one problem: his apprentice is out of town, so his beautiful shop-girl Betsy Piper must help Robert in the kitchen.
Betsy’s spent the last year trying to make her single-minded boss look up from his pastries and notice that she would be the perfect wife. Now the two of them are alone in a kitchen full of sweet things. With just one week to get him to fall in love with her, she’d better get this seduction started...
She soon discovers that Robert brings the same meticulous, eager-to-please attitude to lovemaking that he does to baking, but can kisses—no matter how sweet—compete with the Honey Moon in his heart?
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